Excuse me all, but I am stunned to her how great you all think she is.
She's the worst Secretary of State in recent memory. The fact is her office has been one involved foreign policy disaster after another, she has been a terrible Secretary of State. Colin Powel, Madeleine Albright, and James Baker were all vastly superior to her. I mean what has she done thats go great? Name one.
Lets Look at her Resume...
1. She failed to detect 9-11 despite the many, many, warnings her National Security Agency received. Richard Clark (head of anti-terrorism during 9/11) worked for HER directly and she failed to listen to his warnings.
2. She got the Iraq AND Iranian WMD evidence TOTALLY wrong,
3. She failed to realize, let alone stop North Korea from getting the bomb,
4. She detrailed the Isreali-Palestinean peace meetings in 2004, by cedeing everything to Israel without even listening to the Palestineans. Remember USA was supposed to be the mediator, no wonder the Palestinians dont trust us.
5. ...and most recently she both failed to get the Georgians to stop provoking the Russians, she failed to let the Georgians know that the US wouldn't back them and she TOTALLY underestimated the Russian reponse to the Georgian crisis both in the fact that they would attack s.ossentia and that they would push into Georgia itself, she was wrong on BOTH counts. For someone who is supposed to be an expert on Russia she was Wrong, wrong, and triple wrong.
A senior aide to Dick Cheney said this in a interview "She (Condi) is like Obama, all hope and no experiance." I mean, Ouch!
So she can keep the Maggy Thatcher wannabee attitude in check until she actually gets does something right. The only reason she hasn't been FIRED is that Bush prefers personal loyalty to competence, which is the only reason she got the Sec of State Job in the first place. No semi-decent president would have kept her as long, not that number of major league SNAFUS.