Obama appoints Rice as national security adviser

[CosmicCowboy]

you consider Africa to be geopolitically unimportant, or something like that?

LOL strawman

You claimed she was on the NSC and I blew your claim all to .

[Winehole23]

best choice for the position? I doubt it, if we're going by CVs, but I also have no idea who she was up against.

getting along with the president probably counted for something. the Prez is en led to have advisors of his/her own choosing right?

[Winehole23]

LOL strawman

You claimed she was on the NSC and I blew your claim all to .

nothing factually awry, then.

I'm not sure what you think you blew to , but that don't bother me much.

[Winehole23]

why you're belittling the "Africa desk" somewhat escapes me. care to fill us in?

[boutons_deux]

you right wingers hate govt, so why the concern if Barry appoints someone who is, iyo, not qualified?

Where was your concern when dubya put Brownie, horse show organizer, at the head of FEMA, aluminum- s Ashcroft, then Gonzo to head DoJ, etc, etc, in dubya's term?

don't all y'all actually WANT the hated govt to fail, so you can self-fulfill your hate-govt objective and recruit more haters?

[CosmicCowboy]

nothing factually awry, then.

I'm not sure what you think you blew to , but that don't bother me much.

four years on the National Security Council doesn't count, why? is that not actual experience?

She was never on the National Security Council.

[Winehole23]

She was never on the National Security Council.

beg pardon, but so what? she was invited to attend its meetings over four years. it couldn't have been that big a room.

[Winehole23]

criticizing Obama's choice of advisors falls in the category of straining at molehills, in the leadership area.

[Winehole23]

btw, is there something disreputable about serving on the Africa desk at State? you never cleared that up.

[CosmicCowboy]

beg pardon, but so what? she was invited to attend its meetings over four years. it couldn't have been that big a room.

source?

[Winehole23]

on how big the room was, or whether Susan Rice was ever in it?

[Winehole23]

if you want to say she isn't the best choice, fine, but claiming she has no relevant experience is just silly.

[CosmicCowboy]

criticizing Obama's choice of advisors falls in the category of straining at molehills, in the leadership area.

how else do you judge a "leader"?

[CosmicCowboy]

btw, is there something disreputable about serving on the Africa desk at State? you never cleared that up.

Boy, you just won't give that one up will you? The point was Africa has been her lifelong specialty even at the Brookings ins ute (her previous employer) . Is there even a top 10 national security threat in Africa?

[Winehole23]

how else do you judge a "leader"?

lots of other ways. continuity in the war on terror and the development of the surveillance state are far more momentous, tbh. Obamacare, official secrecy, criminalization of newsgathering, etc..

[Winehole23]

Boy, you just won't give that one up will you? The point was Africa has been her lifelong specialty even at the Brookings ins ute (her previous employer) .

so what if it's her lifelong specialty? you just won't give this one up, will you?

Is there even a top 10 national security threat in Africa?

I don't know; maybe there's more to it than that.

go ask Africom.

[Winehole23]

there must be some good reason why a new US command was created in Africa.

[BobaFett1]

Boy, you just won't give that one up will you? The point was Africa has been her lifelong specialty even at the Brookings ins ute (her previous employer) . Is there even a top 10 national security threat in Africa?

Winehole23 defends Obama no matter what.

[Winehole23]

I occasionally taunt his boneheaded detractors. there's a subtle difference you're probably unalive to. my comment at #65 was hardly meant as a compliment to Obama.

[George Gervin's Afro]

honey boo boo whines about Obama no matter what.

[boutons_deux]

Boy, you just won't give that one up will you? The point was Africa has been her lifelong specialty even at the Brookings ins ute (her previous employer) . Is there even a top 10 national security threat in Africa?

Africom has commandos, drones, etc in Africa. try to keep up.

[CosmicCowboy]

Africom has commandos, drones, etc in Africa. try to keep up.

you really are a dumb mother er. I didn't say those backwards ass africans were angels, just not a huge national security threat.

[ChumpDumper]

Boy, you just won't give that one up will you? The point was Africa has been her lifelong specialty even at the Brookings ins ute (her previous employer) . Is there even a top 10 national security threat in Africa?

Well, she's much less likely to shift US focus to her "life's work" in stark contrast to Condi Rice, who wanted to treat Russia as the main threat instead of stateless terra. All her qualifications and life's work led her to a rather epochal up.

[RandomGuy]

Boy, you just won't give that one up will you? The point was Africa has been her lifelong specialty even at the Brookings ins ute (her previous employer) . Is there even a top 10 national security threat in Africa?

Yes, actually.

You really should read PM Barnett's book, the Pentagon's New Map, and the reasons behind AFRICOM.

Welcome to the interconnected world that is vastly different than the one you, or I for that matter, grew up in.

Change has happened.

[RandomGuy]

Well, she's much less likely to shift US focus to her "life's work" in stark contrast to Condi Rice, who wanted to treat Russia as the main threat instead of stateless terra. All her qualifications and life's work led her to a rather epochal up.

Eyup.

That is one way in which I think conservatives in general tend to be really really bad at the Secretary of State job. The entire mindset it takes to *be* a conservative leads one to be unable to deal with change and complexity effectively.