Word: condoleezza
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...Rice, Condoleezza •piano is played for Queen of England by, prompting Wonkette to observe that "little schoolchildren all over the world now believe that you can grow up to be an accomplished concert pianist and an embarrassing failure at national defense, security, and diplomacy...
...hurt. Otherwise, it will find itself surrounded by newly angry anti-Western neighbors. Mahhoman Singh should consider how India would look as the next injured giant lashing out at enemies it can’t see or mired in war for the during election season. Ironically, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has already linked the Lashkar group to al-Qaeda. India would do best to steer as far away from that route as possible...
...even failure, especially when you consider what happened with George W. Bush's first foreign policy team, which had its share of big personalities too. So fraught with palace intrigue was that arrangement that then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld refused to attend key meetings called by National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. Secretary of State Colin Powell, for all his star power, was all but frozen out of the real decision-making?and the foreign leaders he visited knew it. And Vice President Dick Cheney was a power center unto himself. "You look at the team that George W. Bush brought...
...goes the narrative that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other U.S. officials are trying to sell both sides in order to avoid an escalation of tensions that would threaten regional stability and undermine U.S. goals in Afghanistan. But while Pakistan's civilian government enthusiastically echoes that perspective, it's a tough sell with the players that count most in this instance: India's government, and Pakistan's military...
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice landed in Islamabad on Thursday walking a diplomatic tightrope. She had just been in India and knew that New Delhi wanted Washington's help in getting Pakistan to crack down on groups implicated in last week's terrorist attack on Mumbai. But she also knew that such a crackdown would be unpopular in Pakistan and could very well destabilize its weak civilian government. How then to mollify India's saber-rattling public while getting Pakistan's officials to act against their own interest? The two nuclear-powered nations of the subcontinent have been...