Condi's Middle East Mirage

Ambassador Mark Ginzburg
Huffington Post

Time is (fortunately) running out on Condi Rice. As our increasingly peripatetic Secretary of State makes here upmteenth photo op diplomatic drive-by to the Middle East, she is putting the finishing touches on a legacy that will add yet one more failure to her excruciating and unending list of diplomatic disasters in the region.

No secretary of state in recent memory has been as unfit to navigate the quicksand of the Middle East as Rice, and her record has repeatedly demonstrated her callowness. Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, a deteriorating Palestinian conflict, the unchecked rise of jihadism -- all representing a cumulative toll on American interests and prestige. When I debated Rice in the 2000 presidential campaign on behalf of then Vice President Gore, I couldn't help but believe based on her performance that her entire career exposure to the Middle East probably amounted to a puff on a Sheesha (a.k.a. water pipe) at Stanford. Events have proven me correct.

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