Condoleezza Rice on Libya, Afghanistan & US military: praises Gates, dismisses Rumsfeld

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Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. Secretary of State interviewed by Fareed Zakaria for CNN

The Professor & The President. Rice on Obama.
What grade should Obama get? Condi won't chirp. Very good national security team. US interests stable, pursing interests and values.
Rice: "a lot of continuity" in Bush, Obama policies
Rice: Foreign policy takes a long time to change
View from inside the Oval Office different.

Libya. Grateful we disarmed Gaddafi of his WMD.
Rice: "I am very grateful" Bush administration disarmed Gadafi
Rice: "I was kind of 50/50" on Libyan intervention.
Questions - end game? Who are the rebels? Good that British and French can lead. US can't hand off to NATO. 50/50 decision to intervene. Could argue in the middle of the Arab spring to have Gaddafi mow down his people and stop demonstrations might be an argument.

Rice: I agree with President Obama on "don't ask, don't tell".
Bob Gates handled this well.

Afghanistan surge.
Things weren't going so badly in '05-'06
Pakistan safe haven for Taliban was 2008 problem that needed review & increase in troops & broader counter-insurgency. Not take forever. Prevent existential threat to Afghanistan from Taliban and get more decent government. Then draw-down.

Rice on Rumsfeld's criticisms of her
RUMSFELD V. RICE
Rice: Rumsfeld "doesn't know what he is talking about"
Rumsfeld said Rice was a bad national security advisor. Rumseld grumpy and doesn't know what he is talking about. Not there in one on one meetings with President Bush in the Oval Office after situation room meetings.

Résumé of Condoleezza Rice
Rice was born in 1954 in Birmingham, Alabama
Rice has a masters from Notre Dame & a Ph.D. from the University of Denver
In 1987 Rice served as an advisor to the Joint Chiefs of Staff
In 1989 Rice became director of Soviet & East European Affairs on the National Security Council
Rice served as National Security Advisor from 2001-'05
Rice was the second woman and the first African-American woman to serve as Secretary of State
Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State from 2005-'09
Rice returned to Stanford in 2009 to teach political science
Professor, Stanford University
Rice is a Senior Fellow of Public Policy at the Hoover Institution
Rice serves on the boards of an energy software company and a private equity firm

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[DrCondiRice]

Well if Rumsfeld is Grumpy, Bush must be Doc and Condi must be Snow White.

"Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?"

"On the third planet, with five oceans, in the land of the free and the home of the brave dwells Condoleezza Rice, fairest one of all."

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