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[Hekate]

Thanks for bringing it up again.

Back when I first read that I formed an opinion of Dr. Rice as brittle. There's no question she's smarter and harder working than Bush, but she appears to become threatened easily when people oppose her.

Some people can gracefully make the transition from academia to public life, but she's not one of them, as her tendency to lecture the rest of us demonstrates. It's not a trait designed to win people over, and has very limited usefulness outside the classroom.

Same thing with her specialty, Sovietology: many PhDs in this world go on learning, growing as their subject matter changes, so the fact that the USSR is on the ash-heap of history doesn't by itself disqualify her for her present post. It's her brittleness (as I see it, or possibly arrogance), and refusal to seek help from people like Brent Scowcroft.

Helen Thomas has it right: Condoleeza Rice is in over her head. Too bad for the the US and the rest of the world.

Hekate