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Condi soft-shoe shuffle

toast99 | 07 April, 2006 16:38

Condi 1: Pupil of Brent Scowcroft, George Bush's national security adviser.....where she learned the republican value of ultimate realism as foreign policy

work with brutal regimes that might, ignoring their faults, work in the best interests of the US....not only sup with the devil but share in the detritus of human history that is created....

Rice was the one person who decided that democratic change in the Soviet Union was not conducive to the US.....ironic eh? Not at all, for the fear and paranoia was needed to drive any republican administration bereft of home economic policies....

when Yeltsin visited the White House she physically blocked the door to the Oval Office so that President Bush would not have to meet him...

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Condi 2: She struck a different tone after the Clinton administration, showing George W Bush in an article written in 2000 that reaching out globally was flawed, mocked "nationbuilding", and called for a narrowly focussed foreign policy.

"The President must remember that the military is a special instrument. It is lethel and it is meant to be. It is not a civilian police force. It is not a political referee. And it is certainly not designed to build a civilian society."

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Condi 3: As national security adviser to George W Bush she helped implement a radical foreign policy change....pre-emptive war....an aggressive pro-democracy nation-building agenda....

"punish France, ignore Germany, forgive Russia"

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Condi 4: We now have democratic reform, through co-operation.....working hard to bend to European considerations, working hard to maintain relations with the UN

it is hard to think of any way that US foreign policy would have been any different though if John Kerry was President...

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