Ben Florsheim
2008-11-06 16:10:48
Ask yourself honestly whether a white woman with Condoleezza Rice’s achievement would be called “brilliant”.
Without doubt Rice is highly focused and intelligent. However, history is likely to find that she did little more than punt on the important issues in her remit – China, Russia, Iran, Korea, Europe, South America.
She often seemed to practice diplomacy by the numbers, an acolyte of outdated academic theories rather than real world concerns, and lost the struggle to stay above the institutional group-think at Foggy Bottom.
