Do changes in Rice’s rhetoric really matter?
Rosa Brooks; 28/6/08
You’ve come a long way, baby. In 2000, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice published an essay in Foreign Affairs, “Promoting the National Interest.” Back then, Rice was a Stanford professor and presidential candidate George W. Bush’s senior foreign policy adviser, and the Washington establishment hung on her every word. The article was brash, bold and widely seen as a Bush campaign manifesto. In it, Rice made the case for a hard-nosed US foreign policy, one that would keep our national interests front and center and not be led astray by mushy globalist or humanitarian instincts or a foolish yearning for ideological purity.
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