CONDI Rice . . . crazy or just plain stupid?
- By l.t. Dravis
- Published 12/29/2008
l.t. Dravis
I created and have written the nationally distributed marketing newsletter, BOTH SIDES NOW, since 2003. I authored two books, BOTH SIDES NOW, Sell Like Professional Athletes Win and DEATH OF A SALES MANAGER. In 2008, I introduced a daily column for national syndication to newspapers.
SOMEWHERE
IN CONDI-WORLD – Sunday, December 28, 2008 – I’m worried that Condoleezza Rice,
the least effective Secretary of State in recent memory, has lost her mind or
is just plain stupid.
Why am I worried?
Because the Secretary of State was interviewed
by Rita Braver on yesterday’s edition of the CBS Sunday Morning show and said, “people
will soon start to thank this President for what he’s done.”
What?
Why on earth would the Secretary of State
say something like this?
What was she thinking?
Does any sane, reasonably intelligent
person seriously believe that, except for leaving
The sanity or intellectual capacity of
the Secretary of State of the
Rice said, “So we can sit here and talk
about the long record, but what I would say to you is that this President has
faced tougher circumstances than perhaps at any time since the end of World War
II, and he has delivered policies that are going to stand the test of time.”
Secretary Rice failed to tell us, specifically,
which George W. Bush policies will ‘stand the test of time’?
Was she saying that the Bush policies
which alienated even long-time allies around the world will ‘stand the test of
time’?
Was Secretary Rice saying that George W.
Bush’s unnecessary, unprovoked invasion of Iraq predicated on a series of
orchestrated lies . . . the ‘policy’ that killed thousands of precious
Americans, maimed thousands more, caused the deaths of a half million or more Iraqi
men, women, and children, and indebted U.S. taxpayers for billions of dollars
for decades to come . . . is a policy that will ‘stand the test of time’?
Would the Secretary of State be willing
to sit down with the families of dead and injured American troops and tell them
that it was okay for their husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, and sons
and daughters to be killed or wounded because the Bush Iraq policy will ‘stand
the test of time’?
Does Secretary Rice seriously believe
that the Bush policies that created a $10 trillion dollar national debt and
helped cause the near-collapse of our economic system, a system that was able
to survive centuries of hot wars, cold wars, racial strife, political upheaval,
depressions and recessions, but very nearly couldn’t (and still may not) survive
eight years of Bush/Cheney will ‘stand the test of time’?
The Secretary of State praised George W.
Bush for his ability to ‘change the conversation’ in the
But Rita didn’t ask.
So, Rice didn’t say.
Secretary Rice did say, “This isn’t a
popularity contest. I’m sorry, it isn’t. What the administration is responsible
to do is make good choices about American’s interests and values in the long
run . . . not for today’s headlines, but for history’s judgment.”
I don’t know about you, but I was shocked
to learn that the Secretary of State believes a President, Vice-President, and
the Cabinet should invest its time and taxpayer money in making sure the
administration looks good for ‘history’s judgment’.
If that wasn’t crazy enough or stupid
enough, Rice went on to say, “And I am quite certain that when the final
chapters are written and it’s clear that Saddam Hussein’s Iraq is gone in favor
of an Iraq that is favorable to the future of the Middle East . . . when the
history is written of a U.S.-China relationship that is better than it’s ever
been . . . an India relationship that is deeper and better than it’s ever been
. . . a relationship with Brazil and other countries of the left (sic) of Latin
America, better than it’s ever been.”
How can Rice possibly know that today’s
The Secretary of State’s prediction seems
to dismiss some troubling facts:
Did Rice consider the possibility that
when the history of the U.S.-China relationship in the early 21st
century is written that it may very well contain a chapter on how the Chinese
foreclosed on America’s failure to repay the billions borrowed by George W.
Bush, throwing us – not him - into
bankruptcy?
Do you think Secretary Rice forgot that
What has George W. Bush done to build a partnership with
Secretary Rice didn’t say.
Instead, she said, “I’m here to make tough choices, and this
President is here to make tough choices, and we have. And, yes, I . . . there
are some things that I would do very differently if I had it to do over again.
You don’t have that luxury. You have to make the choices and take the positions
that you do at the time.”
Wait a second, Madame Secretary!
When you say, “You have to make the choices and take the positions
that you do at the time,” you make me wonder, what happened to your concern about
‘history’s judgment’?
Are you talking out of both sides of your mouth or are you crazy or
stupid?
Or all three?
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