An unpleasant note to end the week. Condi is coming back to Stanford to try to write the history of the Bush administration as if it were a success, and teach others how to make the same kind of "tough" decisions. The upside is that most people at Stanford outside of the big Hoover penistitution won't buy her rationalizations.
Rather than jumping into formal coursework, she hopes to connect with students through private speaking engagements. Free from security constraints, she said she looks forward to visiting dormitories to host student-faculty dinners — what she fondly called "a however-long-it-goes engagement. I used to love those,'' she said.
She said she'd welcome debate over the ideas she promoted while serving in the Bush Administration.
"We did some things very well,'' she said. "There are certainly a lot of things I would've done differently...I'm sure there will be dissertations written on that subject, and many of them I'll oversee at Stanford University.''
As a Hoover senior fellow, she aims to teach courses on international politics, focusing on how to make tough choices under severe time pressures, she said. She also aspires to write a book on foreign policy...
Any suggestions on what questions to ask her the first time she dares show her face outside the Hoover?