Posted on Jan 26, 2016
How would you RATE the Job Performance of Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice?
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Today in 2005, Condoleezza Rice is appointed to the post of secretary of state. The post makes her the highest ranking African-American woman ever to serve in an U.S. presidential cabinet. Was she a Competent, Effective and Efficient Secretary of State?
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Posted 10 y ago
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I believe she set the bar for Secretary of State, black or white, young or old, male or female. She took that job by the reigns and took it to new heights.
She is a very smart, classy, and powerful woman...and I wish she had stayed in the Washington circles...she may be back eventually...I hope so. She can hold her own against anyone. If she ran for president, she would have my vote hands down.
She is a very smart, classy, and powerful woman...and I wish she had stayed in the Washington circles...she may be back eventually...I hope so. She can hold her own against anyone. If she ran for president, she would have my vote hands down.
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If we're grading on a curve, she was far superior to any we've had since.
Going backwards, the last one I can remember that was better was Jim Baker.
Going backwards, the last one I can remember that was better was Jim Baker.
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Capt Walter Miller
1SG (Join to see) - "We did not intervene when Russia seized Ukraine because the President decided it was not in our interests to do so."
You seemed to indicate that -any- time a sovereign nation was threatened the U.S. had to act? You didn't seem to allow for any qualifiers.
How ya'll can stick up for this idiot incompetent Bushie is beyond me.
Walt
You seemed to indicate that -any- time a sovereign nation was threatened the U.S. had to act? You didn't seem to allow for any qualifiers.
How ya'll can stick up for this idiot incompetent Bushie is beyond me.
Walt
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Capt Walter Miller - Different President, different policies.
Not confronting Russia during a land grab is not unique to President Obama.
George W. Bush didn't do much when the Russians went into South Ossetia, nor did Bill Clinton when Russia made in incursion into Abkazia (both in Georgia, for those who don't know).
As a general rule, the US has been pretty interventionist in Europe and the Americas, generally disinterested in Africa, and kind of a mixed bag in Asia.
There are some obvious reasons why that would be, principally trade and treaty alignments, and to a lesser degree defense of direct US interests.
In the case of Kuwait, it was obviously oil at issue, and Saddam was overtly threatening to invade Saudi Arabia as well.
In the case of Crimea, without being in the room I would surmise that the President wasn't willing to bluff with a pair of threes in his hand. No one was advocating war with Russia over this, not even the Ukrainians, who meekly surrendered military bases and equipment. Hard to support a nation when the only one involved possessing a backbone is the aggressor.
Not confronting Russia during a land grab is not unique to President Obama.
George W. Bush didn't do much when the Russians went into South Ossetia, nor did Bill Clinton when Russia made in incursion into Abkazia (both in Georgia, for those who don't know).
As a general rule, the US has been pretty interventionist in Europe and the Americas, generally disinterested in Africa, and kind of a mixed bag in Asia.
There are some obvious reasons why that would be, principally trade and treaty alignments, and to a lesser degree defense of direct US interests.
In the case of Kuwait, it was obviously oil at issue, and Saddam was overtly threatening to invade Saudi Arabia as well.
In the case of Crimea, without being in the room I would surmise that the President wasn't willing to bluff with a pair of threes in his hand. No one was advocating war with Russia over this, not even the Ukrainians, who meekly surrendered military bases and equipment. Hard to support a nation when the only one involved possessing a backbone is the aggressor.
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Capt Walter Miller - That has nothing to do with her performance as Secretary of State.
Do you advocate that we should fire everyone in government when something bad happens?
I noticed you ducked my rejoinder that JFK started our involvement in Vietnam, leading to the death of 58,000 Service members, most of them draftees.
Do you advocate that we should fire everyone in government when something bad happens?
I noticed you ducked my rejoinder that JFK started our involvement in Vietnam, leading to the death of 58,000 Service members, most of them draftees.
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Depends on what the criteria used to define "good", "competent", and "effective" is. Was she respected yes. Was she competent? I will not say being we invaded Iraq and lives were lost on shoddy intel. Effective? She got the job done. It's not a popularity contest.
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Prior to and during the Iraq invasion she was Pres Bush's National Security Adviser and one of the biggest proponents of the war and one of the biggest pushers of the WMD line. She's the one, when questioned about the validity of intel about WMD, said "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud".
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MCPO Roger Collins
LTC (Join to see) - what was Hillary and Kerry 's position up to the point of resumption of hostilities?
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MCPO Roger Collins - Hilary, Kerry, the majority of congress and the American people believed Condi, Cheny and Bush when they went on TV and told them there was clear evidence of WMD. They never thought the White House would lie about something so significant. But they were wrong. Live and learn. Or not. Many of the same neocons who pushed for war then are now advising some of the repub candidates and would likely end up back in a repub administration.
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MCPO Roger Collins
LTC (Join to see) - BS, as usual they were for it before they were against it for political cover. Was there no Democrats on the Intel committees or were they deaf and blind? BTW, you forgot Colin Powell and foreign Intelligence agencies reports. In any event, it would seem that small group you noted, if you know what you're talking about, outsmarted all those whiz kids on the left to get a Congress majority bi-partisan vote for resumption of hostilities.
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When compared to Hillary, sterling. She is lucky she wasn't tried for war crimes or total incompetence if that could be a charge.
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I believe she was one of the best in my lifetime. She also had an impressive career prior to the posting. She did the job to the best of her ability, then did what I respect most from our civil servants...she left the job to the next selectee and stayed out of their business.
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MCPO Roger Collins
LTC Bink Romanick - Now you have ruined my whole day. I was under the impression were buddies :(
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SPC Andrew Griffin I defer the answer to this question to the many performance evaluations that she has received from her superiors in the many institutions she has served in over the many years of her public service.
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