Condi Rice hopes we understand --
that missions only stay accomplished when Congress doesn't question the President.
that Afghanistan is too wild and lawless to be worth any attention for very long.
that Iraq is just like Afghanistan, only with more oil and sand and fewer poppies.
that North Korea is unimportant except when it's not.
that the best solution to the Israeli/Palestinian question is to keep searching for a solution until you're out of office, and then it no longer matters.
that the reason we have allies is to have access to an unquestioning mercenary force.
that every country should support the United States because it so kicks butt.
that all questions of foreign affairs can be resolved by raising the spectre of nuclear disaster.
that the United Nations should be a part of the Executive Branch.
that Russia and China are peripheral powers.
that the only Presidential limits are self-imposed.
that fiction's best use is to buttress an action the President wishes to take.
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Seriously. Look over Condi's eight years working for What's-His-Name. Can you identify anything -- anything -- she accomplished? Because I sure can't.