Word: condoleezza
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...Musharraf over the past few months is unprecedented," says Iqbal. "I don't come across a single person who is defending Musharraf today." Even support from the U.S. seems to be wavering. Representatives Tom Lantos and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen along with Senator Joe Biden wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently, saying that, "It is our impression that many Pakistani citizens view the President's campaign against the nation's Chief Justice as an attempt to cow the judicial system into sanctioning electoral rigging and extraconstitutional delay of a return to a fully civilian government...
...power, relations with other strong nations have dominated our foreign policy. (Even when we went to war in Korea and Vietnam or tried to overthrow regimes in Cuba and Nicaragua, it was mostly to prevent a superpower--the Soviet Union--from extending its reach.) As late as 2000, when Condoleezza Rice laid out Governor George W. Bush's foreign policy vision in an article in Foreign Affairs, she cited Russia 35 times and China...
...begun several years ago when Bush testified to the alleged spiritual depth of his Russian counterpart's soul, hasn't helped. The fact that similarly staged "friendships"--between F.D.R. and "Uncle Joe" Stalin, Nixon and Brezhnev, Clinton and Yeltsin--ended in mutual disappointment did not prevent Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from boasting not long ago that U.S.-Russian relations were now the best in history. Surely it would be preferable to achieve a genuine, sustainable improvement before staging public theatrics designed to create the illusion that one has taken place. It's a lesson Bush should keep in mind...
...other hand, it is not inconceivable Iran would be looking at terrorist targets in the United States these days. Iranian hard-liners believe a war with the United States is inevitable. They read the American press and have convinced themselves that while Condoleezza Rice might settle for diplomacy, Dick Cheney sooner or later will find an excuse to bomb them. The hard-liners are also convinced that we are inciting Iran's ethnic minorities to attack the regime. Trying to blow up JFK Airport is the least we could expect from them if Cheney does...
...arsenal near his desk and spent his first nine months so focused on getting a rollback of the anti-ballistic missile treaty that he was later accused of ignoring the terrorist threat as it built in the run-up to 9/11. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice were both Russia experts at George H. W. Bush's National Security Council, and pursued the issue as closely as Hadley...