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2006-05-16 Home Front: Politix

US diplomacy becomes more ... diplomatic

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Posted by ryuge 2006-05-16 00:58|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What's for lunch?

Posted by Captain America 2006-05-16 07:35|| 2006-05-16 07:35|| Front Page Top

#2 What Rice brings to the table is not only the assumption that she has the president's full backing - something predecessor Colin Powell couldn't assert - but also an ability to manage, if not actually resolve, the conflicting foreign-policy visions.

"You need a good cop and a bad cop to deal with" the international powers and bring them together, "and Secretary Rice is playing the good cop," says Raymond Tanter, who worked with Rice on the National Security Council of President George H.W. Bush.

Powell had as much backing as Rice. What Powell didn't have was loyalty to the President. And the press knew it and the press played Powell like Heifitz. Powell, a great bureaucrat, a lousy general and statesman. Sort of the ultimate not-Marshall.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-05-16 15:27|| 2006-05-16 15:27|| Front Page Top

#3 much less Supremacist? So much better that we don't have a success, Christian Scientist Traitor

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-16 16:10|| 2006-05-16 16:10|| Front Page Top

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