Condaleeze Rice hopes to rewrite legacy with mideast conference

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20071125/wl_mcclatchy/20071125bcricetenureembargoed_attn_national_foreign_editors_ytop

By Warren P. Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers
Sun Nov 25, 12:50 PM ET

WASHINGTON — Condoleezza Rice became secretary of state almost three years ago with strong support from President Bush , glamorous reviews in the news media and high hopes from America's diplomats.

Since then, Pakistani strongman Pervez Musharraf has ignored her pleas and imposed emergency rule, throwing a key counterterrorism ally into turmoil. In Russia , the country Rice prides herself on knowing best, she and Bush appear to have badly misread President Vladimir Putin , who's restored autocratic rule and his country's rivalry with America. Her drive for Middle East democracy has stalled in Lebanon and elsewhere, and other big issues, including the environment and relations with East Asia , have been relegated to the back burner.

In her own State Department , Rice's concept of "transformational diplomacy" is largely forgotten, a fanfare about better public diplomacy has faded and morale is sinking. Rice is under fire for her handling of staffing in Iraq , and the $740 million U.S. Embassy in Baghdad is riddled with problems and has yet to open.

Rice, usually loath to admit error, did so last month, telling Congress that her department should have provided better oversight of security contractor Blackwater Worldwide.

An ardent football fan, Rice is hoping to rewrite her legacy in the next 14 months, beginning with what amounts to a Hail Mary pass this week in a Mideast peace conference she's organized for Annapolis, Md .

[ThomWV]

1. Annapolis will turn out to be a meaningless get-to-gether

Nothing will come of it. Just another blow job brought to you by the Bush Administration.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Maybe if they spent time

on actual diplomacy instead of coming up with cute but meaningless terms
like "transformational diplomacy" (trans-diplo for short, or just plain old TFD)
not to mention the many photo ops to show of the latest footwear fashion...

aw nevermind... these republican hacks are hopeless

BFD

[opihimoimoi]

3. All Photos and Lost Ops.....she is hopeless...was a very bad choice by Bush

[Catshrink]

4. Good luck with that, Condi.

Your track record isn't that hot, is it?

[whistle]

5. Condi is going to fall flat on her face

[L0oniX]

6. 100% Sleeze