Condi Rides Again!
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former National Security Council chief Stephen Hadley are teaming up as the latest participants in the endless battle of the groups, such as: the Kissinger Group, the Scowcroft Group, the Chertoff Group and other outfits of that genre.
The official launch of the RiceHadley Group, which styles itself as a “strategic advisory firm” for international companies, is scheduled soon. The firm registered its Web site domain name in October.
It will not be exactly a localized operation. Rice, who was Hadley’s boss at the National Security Council during Bush’s first term, will be teaching at Stanford while Hadley remains in Washington as a senior adviser for international affairs at the government-funded think-tank the U.S. Institute of Peace. A third founding partner, Washington lawyer Anja Manuel, is also heading to Stanford to teach international studies.
Manuel was an aide from 2005 to 2007 to former undersecretary of state for political affairs Nicholas Burns. Her firm bio says she “managed [Burns's] involvement in South and Central Asia policy, congressional outreach and legal matters. Among other projects, she negotiated the U.S.-India civilian nuclear accord, and helped to secure passage . . . of the India civilian nuclear legislation.” She was also “extensively involved in U.S. policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan, among other issues,”
In case you are thinking of doing business overseas, especially in South Asia and supposed “emerging markets” in the Middle East and Latin America, you do want to get some serious strategic advice. To paraphrase Condi’s famous statement, you wouldn’t want to find your business under “a mushroom cloud.”
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Condi Rice has not removed the puppeteer strings from her back yet. No one can, nor should take her seriously. Someone needs to put her in a decompression chamber. That photo is a reference to George Bush, perhaps? Sorry, couldn’t resist that one.
Cher, I actually sort of thought it was in reference to her boyfriend, who could very well, be W
And why would people take seriously the Kissinger Group, considering what the principal of that organization has done over the years?
Every effort will be made by the neo-cons to exonerate the W’s dismal policy legacy. Already, Ft. Hood is being touted as a “terrorist” act in hopes of somehow implanting the idea in the minds of the information challenged electorate that Obama’s record at keeping the country safe can be compared to the flimsy and whimsy record of the autocracy.
Even more irritating is the artificial birth of the famous synthetic debates. We went through this when the nation was supposedly “debating” whether or not “it was a civil war in Iraq.” The second wave was whether or not “it was a recession or a depression.” Now it is whether or not “it was terrorism.”
Does anyone else cringe when they listen to AM radio half-wits prop up “questions” or “debates” with well established answers already made, implying that something interesting might emerge from air wave blabbering of cowboys and bigots mouthing carefully tailored talking points?
Ooops! Something “happened” to my comment.
My point is that sweet Condi would love to fire up a debate of her own based on foreign policy. The lingering question: “Will she fit into any of Sarah Palin’s purloined campaign outfits for her television appearances?”
Chad, now that is a question! I wonder who is wearing those outfits now…