Critics taking aim at the Condi Rice show - World - Times Online

Condi should have stayed at Stanford, instead of allowing herself, and us, to become victims of the Peter Principle.

Critics taking aim at the Condi Rice show - World - Times Online:

CONDOLEEZZA RICE is coming under sustained criticism on several fronts.

Some, even within the White House, have started referring to the 'Condi Rice show, suggesting that the Secretary of State spends too much time on television talking to a domestic audience and not enough in international negotiations.

A senior Republican expressed unhappiness at the way that she was snubbed recently by Fouad Siniora, the Lebanese Prime Minister. 'Henry Kissinger would never have been turned away from any capital,' he told The Times.

Richard Armitage, who was deputy to her predecessor, Colin Powell, has publicly attacked her for ignoring opportunities to negotiate with Syria. 'We get a little lazy, I think, when we spend all our time as diplomats talking to our friends and not to our enemies,' he said.