Has Condoleezza Rice has any success as a diplomat?

With the world falling apart, in Israel, Syria, Iran, Iraq, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Everyone sounded so relived when after only 13 days Condoleezza Rice was sent to Israel to broker peace. Granted nothing came out of that. So I was racking my brain, and was unable to find a single diplomatic success story. If Rice has more than one diplomatic success story best answer goes to the person with (A) The Most success stories or (B) the person with the best (most complete sources).

Rants are always welcome but will not receive a best answer unless, there are no success stories and your rant is the best.

nonconformiststraightguy

She always what George tells her what to do.

Yakuza

Not a grain of success to be found in this Rice.

sennorikyu72

My opinion is that Condoleeza Rice has no diplomatic autonomy whatsoever. If she is trusted by the Bush administration, it is to the extent that she reliably tows the line that Cheney and Bush have already determined. Colin Powell felt free to express dissent or even offer independent, albeit tentative, answers to other countries.

As far as I can tell, Condoleeza Rice is nothing but a well-spoken mouthpiece for Bush, Cheney, and the few in the inner circle, all of whom are terse and stubborn on the positions they take. If she has any diplomatic leeway, I have never seen her use it, and my feeling is that she is of one mind with the President and Vice-President anyway. So diplomatic success or failure depends heavily on the President and Vice-President's formulation of policy.

dukalink6000

I can't find one either, but she does manage to tick off a lot of people.

A.V.R.

the war in lebbanon is still going isnt it

sifurball

No. Women are not taken seriously on the international diplomatic stage. When is the last time we've seen a band of women pillage and plummage towns or take to a battlefield and conquer land. I'm sure some may attempt to argue otherwise, yet they would be extremely hard pressed to present a sane base for such a claim.

Leogirl0804

I think she has done a great job in keeping Israel from flattening every one around them for as long as she has. She has been very instrumental in that regard. She is now working for a permanent solution and the politicians just want this to go away so they can get back to doing nothing as normal. Why do people think its a crime to fix a problem vs cover it up. I don't understand.

mouthbreather77

No. She is like the head of public relations or advertising agency. The product or lie she is selling is democracy in the Middle East. The only state that benefits from this is Iran. Israel's enemies are rallying around democracy in order to declare their desire to annihilate Israel. She sells the U.S., E.U., Israeli alliance as democracy when it is a great crime in reality. She is destroying whatever credibility the U.N. had. Her "diplomacy" is nothing more than propaganda. She gets in a plane and visits Arab and Israeli and European leaders. She does not broker peace. She does not offer anything new. She maintains the status quo. Oil and Israel.

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