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Condoleezza Rice helped sell Bush’s Iraq War by warning that the smoking gun could become a mushroom cloud. iPINIONS contends that she is recycling that same preventive-war logic for Trump in Iran, where a supposedly quick campaign has metastasized into mounting deaths, destruction, and conflict over the Strait of Hormuz. Read my full take on… Read more.
I have felt obliged on more than a few occasions to condemn blacks (like Al Sharpton) for playing the “race card” while complaining about all manner of grievances. I suspect this is why so many people expressed shock when I led the chorus of those charging that race had everything to do with the salutary neglect… Read more.
USA Today published a doctored photo of Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice. It blackened her face and whitened her eyes. The explicit aim was to demonize rather than flatter her. That’s why it’s facing so much backlash. USA Today doctoring Dr. Rice TIME magazine published a doctored photo of O.J. Simpson to a similar effect. It wanted to portray… Read more.
Today, U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice recalled U.S. Envoy to Syria Margaret Scobey to protest the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister, Rafiq Hariri. This, even though she conceded that there’s no evidence Syria had anything to do with his death. Except that this diplomatic slap was only intended to warn President… Read more.
