* Is Condi the result of affirmative action, PC, a mixture of cluelessness and wishful thinking? Not only. The whole Bush administration drifts along pitting hope against hope. The idiotic, agonizing and ongoing embarrassments with the present US-‘secretary of state’, Condoleezza Rice, are too many too mention. Only the equally awful, Champagne-drinking, dictator-hugging, ME-shuttling Madeleine Albright from the Clitman-era comes close in underperforming and willfully deceiving the public.
Rice: US has ‘no permanent enemies’
“They must choose cooperation not confrontation with the international community,” Rice said.
* Sure they will listen to you, Condi!
The United States doesn’t have permanent enemies, we’re too great a country for that,” she told reporters at a State Department press conference.
But she stressed that neither North Korea nor Iran would benefit from closer relations with the U.S. unless they come clean about their weapons intentions.
The third member of the “axis of evil,” Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, did not do so to Bush’s satisfaction and was invaded in 2003, although no weapons of mass destruction were found. The administration has said it wants to deal diplomatically with the threats it sees from North Korea and Iran.
Rice repeated calls for North Korea to honor its pledge to provide a complete declaration of its atomic programs and to disable all nuclear weapons facilities by year’s end, although she left open the possibility Pyongyang would miss the deadline for disabling nuclear sites.
“We have been very clear that we expect a declaration from North Korea that is complete and accurate,” Rice said, reiterating Washington’s position that the country must describe all of its nuclear activities, including possible sales of equipment to other nations and its alleged dabbling in uranium enrichment to complement a known plutonium program.
Rice would not comment on a report about the discovery by U.S. scientists of uranium traces on aluminum tubes in North Korea, apparently contradicting Pyongyang’s claim that its acquisition of the tubes was for conventional purposes. Such tubes could be used in the process of converting hot uranium gas into fuel for nuclear weapons, according to the report in Friday’s Washington Post.
Rice said, “We have long been concerned about highly enriched uranium as an alternative (nuclear weapons) route in North Korea.”
The declaration is due by Dec. 31, which is also the deadline for disabling North Korea’s plutonium plant at Yongbyon. However, diplomats have said the North would likely not be safely able to complete one key disablement step — removing the fuel rods from its reactor — for several months.
“I sincerely hope it will be by the end of the year, but the key is to get this process right,” Rice said.
If North Korea meets its commitments, the U.S. has said it will remove the North from terrorism and sanctions blacklists and enter into talks to forge a permanent peace deal to officially end the Korean War.
On Iran, Rice said, “I continue to say that if Iran will just do the one thing that is required of it by the Security Council resolutions that have been passed — and that is suspend its enrichment and reprocessing activities — then I’m prepared to meet my counterpart any place and anytime and anywhere and we can talk about anything.”
She warned the Iranians would not get a pass and sidestepped a question about whether “anywhere” would include the Iranian capital of Tehran.
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Fitzgerald: They prate and they blather, and Islam marches on
How much damage is done to the educational system, once the pride of France, the product of careful thought by nineteenth-century pedagogues (every little town has a “Jules-Ferry” school, to honor the most famous one), because undisciplined and even violent Muslim students intimidate not only non-Muslim French students, but the teachers too. They refuse to read about, inter alia, Voltaire, French Kings, the Holocaust, World War II, or anything that they think is purely a matter for Infidels, or might evoke sympathy for Jews, or might be associated with anti-Islamic attitudes (Voltaire is disliked because of his play “Mahomet”). How much has life in France been degraded by the fact of large-scale Muslim immigration?
And what intelligent Frenchman today would or could disagree with the observation that the large-scale presence of Muslims in European countries has led to a situation that is far more unpleasant, expensive, and physically dangerous for its Infidel indigenous inhabitants (and for non-indigenous immigrants who are not Muslims), than would be the case without such a large-scale presence?
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I’ve decided to call this boob Condi Olmert because the both of them are just out of this world and of one mind when dealing with the death cult. This woman is enough for me to think that maybe the Koranists are right to treat their women so poorly- they have nobody like her after all. Condi Olmert is almost enough to turn an infidel into an Islamaniac-she’s that embarrassing.
Trifkovic’s The Sword of the Prophet is the one work which opened my eyes a few years ago. At the time I read that book, Spencer’s Guide was not yet abvaliale.Were I have to begin my research today, I’d begin with the books by Robert Spencer and Mark Alexander’s book, then proceed to Sword. Then start coming up to current events via the web.