Once upon a time, Condoleezza Rice was so cool that she–not just a woman, not just an African-American, but also a hard-nosed, no-nonsense intellectual–was touted as potential presidential material. I don’t remember when that idea died, but I think it was about the time she started pressing the Israelis to negotiate peace with their sworn enemies, the rocket-throwing, suicide-bomb-wearing Palis. Now she’s forcing them to meet next week in Annapolis for some kind of pointless "peace" conference, the usual intellectual nonsense no one believes in. Too bad. She isn’t "Condi" anymore, but just another forgettable, no-talent bureaucrat who will be replaced with another one after the ’08 election.
UPDATE: Fred on Annapolis…
"I hope we don’t try to push the Israelis into an agreement just for the sake of an agreement unless both parties are willing, and express a willingness, to have peace and the terrorists renounce terrorism."
…in the transcript of Pajamas Media’s interview of him.
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