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| | The Gadflyer: Condi Rice Meets Peter-Baruch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | The two bureaucratic principles that define Condi Rice are the Peter Principle, which states that people are eventually promoted until they reach a position for which they are incompetent, and the Baruch Axiom, which says that if all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. |
 | | This Thursday, when Dr. Rice testifies before the September 11 commission, it will be interesting to see if commission members ask her to explain her thinking on these matters, and whether she understood before the attacks that the world around her had changed. |
 | | If Rice knew Iraq would be a distraction to the war on terror, she is not the bold, assertive adviser with Bush's ear that Administration allies claim she is; if she couldn't see that it was distraction, she is still blinded by her inability to think beyond her Cold War mindset. |
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