Prometheus 6

The Power-Values Approach to Policy
Move to State Raises Rice's Profile

By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, November 21, 2004; Page A08

Condoleezza Rice, whom President Bush nominated last week as his next secretary of state, was pegged early in her career as a disciple of the "realist" school exemplified by Henry A. Kissinger, more concerned with great-power relations than moral issues. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, she has been viewed as an enabler of the "neoconservative idealism" that believes evil governments must be confronted -- and toppled.

I think I'd like to hear that from Dr. Rice's own mouth.

At their core, her speeches and writings reveal a determined individual willing to knock aside established doctrines, especially in this period of international turmoil, but grounded in a strong belief in American values and the essential good of U.S. power.

You know what believing in "the essential good" of your power means, right? It means you're taking the "ends justifies the means" position.

I wonder if anyone realizes the active threat a government with this face represents to every nation in the world. Well, except England, I guess. Or maybe especially England…that would explain a lot too.