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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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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