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...darkest days of the Iraq war, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on a mission to restore order. Could she possibly bring peace to Iraq and mediate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without admitting the Bush Administration's mistakes? Readers fear it may already be too late to change course...
...time for Condoleezza Rice to go? Since assuming her post of Secretary of State, she has had very few successes. It would appear diplomacy is not her strong suit. The fault might lie in the arrogant and uncompromising attitude of her bosses, but her performance has been dismal and disappointing. Much of her time and energy has been diverted to defending the strategies and policies of the Bush Administration. One wonders whether a more independent-thinking Secretary of State would better serve the country. Gerald Schwartz Amberley Village, Ohio...
...opportunity may have passed for Rice to redeem herself by revising U.S. foreign policy. The Iraq policy has already reached the point of no return, with irretrievable loss of lives and resources. What can Rice do in the next two years? Her only salvation might be to finalize a peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinians. Otherwise, she will end up in infamy. Nake M. Kamrany Pacific Palisades, California...
...speech in Egypt, Rice famously said, "For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region ... and we achieved neither." Unfortunately, the epitaph for her work in this Administration will be a perverse twist on that: for eight years, our country has pursued democracy at the expense of stability, and we lost both. Stephen E. Phillips New York City...
...success and promised President George Bush at the time that "there won't be a Taliban and there won't be an al-Qaeda." However, cross-border attacks have increased threefold since September, according to Coalition forces on the Afghan side, and two weeks ago Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice described the situation as a "disappointment...