Word: condoleezza
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...Sometimes, the only advisers Bush hears are the ones who already agree. That's partly because the National Security Council, the little agency in the White House for settling such policy differences, is weaker than it has been since the latter part of the Reagan Administration. Run by Condoleezza Rice, the nsc struggled along until recently with an Afghan expert in charge of the Middle East. A Rice critic says that when the pro-Israel players in the Pentagon and Cheney's office, who enjoy plenty of access to the West Wing, make proposals to Bush, "there is nobody...
...could see people running through the streets and ambulances taking the wounded from the scene. Once the Blackhawk touched down, eight miles from the Lebanese border, Powell took a call from Sharon and expressed his deep regrets over the attack. That day, after consulting with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Powell delayed a planned meeting with Yasser Arafat and threatened to cancel it altogether unless the Palestinian leader denounced the bombings--which last week included a suicide attack on a bus in Haifa that killed eight. "It was a group decision," says a senior White House aide. "This...
...call it a "vacuum of power." And the U.S. has yet to acknowledge that it might have been inappropriate to suggest that Ch?vez, a left-wing leader whose policies and statements often irk Washington, had it coming. Instead, the White House chided the restored President: National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice suggested that he needed to "respect the constitutional processes," sidestepping the question as to whether Washington had ignored legal niceties by moving to embrace the illicit regime change in Caracas just days before...
...normal times, none of this would be remotely surprising. It is the way that great powers work. "American foreign policy," wrote National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in a 2000 Foreign Affairs article that became the template for the Bush approach, "should refocus on the national interest and the pursuit of key priorities." For this Administration, missile defense and NATO expansion are key priorities; the fate of Chechens is not. But these are not normal times, and after Sept. 11, the pursuit of the national interest was, supposedly, suddenly invested with another characteristic. In a phrase that Rice herself has used...
...meetings that produced the speech were even more extraordinary. For several days, the most powerful people in the Administration had served as speechwriters. Bush, Powell, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and CIA Director George Tenet had all called or crowded into the Situation Room and worked on the speech line by line--a measure of how troubled and critical this moment really was. The team added a great deal of moral embroidery and made sure that the speech demanded something from everyone. In the Rose Garden, Bush reached out to Yasser Arafat...