“I got to figure out Iran”: Condoleezza Rice advances a pawn

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... In Ben McGrath’s New Yorker piece on the imminent retirement of New York Giants running back Tiki Barber from football (not available online), Barber describes his meeting last spring with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Washington, where he attended the White House Correspondents’ Dinner along with a journalist friend. Condi found out he was coming, and invited him to the State Department for lunch. Barber told McGrath:

“She’s welcoming and warm. There’s no façade. I asked her if she wanted to be N.F.L. commissioner. ‘Oh, I’d love to, but I got to figure out Iran first.’…She’s a phenomenal, phenomenal lady.”

Evidently, part of “figuring out Iran” is pleading with American troops in Iraq to start shooting Iranians.

But I wonder why Condi doesn’t “figure out” Iraq first. The Iraqi oil sector is “a mess,” according to the Post, and Exxon Mobil’s vast archive of Iraqi seismic data is going to waste. “If Exxon had security on the ground,” says Fadel Gheit, an oil analyst at Oppenheimer & Co. who used to work for Mobil and is quoted in the Post article, “the following day it would have crews there. And money would be no object.” So get cracking, Condi. Less than two years left in this chess game ... http://www.btcnews.com/btcnews/1577

[2Design]

1. Barf n/t

[rusty charly]

2. Barf-a-mundo

[bdrube]

3. She's a Trailblazer

Ms. Rice is proof positive that a minority female in a high
position of power can be just be just as incompetent as any
white male.  That's progress, I guess.

Had she become NFL commissioner, I have no doubt that within 5
years the league would have been trailing the NHL in
popularity.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Why are we paying for...

her on the job learning?

If Rice needs to "figure out" Iraq or Iran
then she is in waaaaaaay over her head.