Scary

In reading this morning’s New York Times, I’ve found myself frightened (yet again), this time by details of Condoleezza Rice’s trip to France. Not only has she made factual misstatements displaying her ignorance, but she told one gathering that she thought “the free world was wrong to accept the Soviet Union on its terms during the cold war and must not make the same mistake now with Iran.” (By the way, that’s a quote from the article, explaining what she said, not a direct quote of her—I don’t want to be seen as misrepresenting things; that’s the Bush administration’s job.)

So our new Secretary of State is saying what about foreign policy? Given her example, we were supposed to have done what to the Soviet Union? We managed to get through a long nuclear stalemate without a cataclysmic war. This is what she thinks is wrong? This woman is scary! God help us all.