[lit-ideas] Vox Populi - Rice is tasked to fall on her sword. Compiled by Kevin Arnovitz
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- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 11:03:46 -0400
Here's an article that more fully explores what I was thinking when I heard
Condoleezza Rice talk about "structural" problems that kept getting in the way
of taking action. What's the point of being President or National Security
Advisor if -- after identifying "structural problems" -- you can't correct
them? Rice's testimony seemed to be an attempt to justify her and Bush's
sluggishness and passivity. She reinforced the idea that this White House only
responds to its ideology, not to what's going on in the real world. SS
# # # # #
"Actually, what is clear to me now-after watching Rice's testimony and then
reading some of the more astonishing quotes from it last evening in various
news reports-is that Rice isn't a national security adviser at all. That is,
her job-unlike that of all the others, such as Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew
Brzezinski, John Poindexter, Anthony Lake and Sandy Berger-was, and is, not to
give the president national security advice but instead to carry out orders
given by those who actually were devising national security policy: Cheney,
Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Feith.
Rice was simply a glorified supervisory bureaucrat. Her job was to take and
carry out orders-
http://slate.msn.com/id/2098339/
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