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February 22, 2007

Fecklessness at ol' Foggy Bottom

The NYT opines:

It speaks volumes when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flies to Jerusalem to try to revive peace talks between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and cannot even get the two to show up when she reads out the content-free joint statement to which they have grudgingly agreed.

But this comes as no surprise to anyone paying attention. This is the same Condi Rice who earlier on Wednesday slammed a Russian General's observation about a couple of proposed anti-missile installations in Poland and the Czech Republic with her own fatuous nonsense.

"Anyone who knows anything about this knows that there is no way that 10 interceptors ... are a threat to Russia or that they are somehow going to diminish Russia's deterrent of thousands of warheads," Rice said.

Anyone who knows anything about this knows that 1, if push came to shove there is no way that the American military would completely bypass these interceptors and instead rely solely upon other existing interceptors to knock down Russian missiles, and 2. that it is a logical fallacy of the worst kind to frame this as any single or pair of interceptor sites being capable of knocking down the entire Russian arsenal.

And this is coming from the same Condi Rice who is supposedly an expert on Cold War stuff. So either she is grossly incompetent or she was deliberately trying to deceive the public. Given her academic background the later is the only viable choice of the two. Which means that yet once again she has demonstrated why the American people simply can't trust her to be honest with us.

But on the bright side... perhaps she was able to salvage the entire trip with some shoe shopping...

Posted by Kevin at February 22, 2007 07:21 AM