The French bookerista praises the recent foreign policy speech that Condoleezza Rice (pictured) gave at Oklahoma State University (commentary in French): "Thank you to Booker Rising for posting this information. This gave me an opportunity to rediscover how Condoleezza Rice, the former national security adviser and secretary of state to former President [George] W. Bush, was qualified to analyze and judge today's risks to the U.S. I agree with her view: Ten years after the horrible September 11, 2001 attacks, the world (especially historians) will judge the acts of the Bush administration to provide stability and hope to the world after this tragedy. It needed a strong president and a strong administration to hold the shaky world at this time. As to those 'humanist' actions in the world, most people are wrong in only considering the Iraq and Afghanistan interventions. It [the U.S. government] has been very active in the Darfur crisis and has significantly helped poor African countries. Bush's last tour on the continent and the warm welcome he had received was the best example. Perhaps in this area is where 'compassionate conservatism' has found its full expression."
Neoafricain continues his commentary: "Regarding today's risks, Iran is clearly on top of the agenda. The latest news from Tehran indeed confirms to the world and this strategic region about the danger posed by the ayatollahs! Finally, she returned to neo-conservative foreign policy principles. Unlike other conservatives and of course the pseudo-pacifists and other isolationists; they [neo-conservatives] have the strong conviction that the United States are at high risk (the tragic proof was given on September 11) when they allow unstable states headed by tyrants to proliferate. Democracy has brought many benefits to the States, it's the best form of government and the U.S. has a duty to promote it everywhere else. And she said they should do it as much for moral reasons than for their own [national] interests. This imperative requires great courage and dedication, two qualities that left the White House with President [George] W. Bush!"
More: "Condoleezza Rice recalls several things about which most Obamamaniacs have amnesia or are obtuse: 1) The Bush Administration was composed of people of great talent; 2) There were Blacks in key positions of that administration (an argument which counters those who often invoke the supposed racism of those years); and 3) it had the advantage of having a doctrine that has preserved their country's fundamental interests and the free world and caused great harm to their enemies. She [Condoleezza Rice] outperforms the very quiet and very faded current Secretary of State (Hillary Clinton, for those who have forgotten) and has a consistency that is not found today. The current administration is torn between the naive-apprenticeship of an 'Attorney General' who wants to try all terrorists on American soil, the kind who wanted to close Guantanamo at any price (it was Condi who said there was no credible alternative) and leave Iraq to the wolves, and another faction that wants to offset the weakness displayed by the president wherever they can. Super-Condi truly has her place in future national destiny!"
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Neoafricain on Super-Condi
