Maureen Dowd really cuts down Condi's ego

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Op-Ed Columnist: Don't Know Much About Algebra

January 20, 2005
By MAUREEN DOWD





Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard, has been
pilloried for suggesting that women may be biologically
unsuited to succeed at mathematics.
He may have a point.
Just look at Condoleezza Rice.

She's clearly a
well-educated, intelligent woman, versed in Brahms and the
Bolsheviks, who has just been rewarded for her loyalty with
the most plum assignment in the second Bush cabinet.
Yet her math skills are woefully inadequate.
She can't do
simple equations. She doesn't even know that X times zero
equals zero. If you multiply 1,370 dead soldiers times zero
weapons of mass destruction, that equals zero achievement
for Ms. Rice, who helped the president and vice president
bamboozle the country into war.

Was Condi out doing figure eights at the ice skating rink
when she should have been home learning her figures? She
couldn't have spent much time studying classic word
problems: If two trains leave Chicago at noon, one going
south at 20 miles an hour and one going north at 30 miles
an hour, how far will each have gotten by midnight?

Otherwise, she might have realized that if two cars leave
the Baghdad airport at noon on the main highway into the
capital of Iraq, neither one is going to get there with any
living passengers. Our 22 months at war have not added up
to that one major highway's being secured.

more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/20/opinion/20dowd.html?ex=1107266758&ei=1&en=75210a5845927fbb

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1. Excellent

go mo!

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2. Ok, exactly how does one not judge a decision at the time of making it?

What mind boggeling logic is this? Good post.