{"id":6214,"date":"2005-01-19T09:43:08","date_gmt":"2005-01-19T09:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/19\/just-augural\/"},"modified":"2005-01-19T09:43:08","modified_gmt":"2005-01-19T09:43:08","slug":"just-augural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/19\/just-augural\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Augural"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> min<\/span><\/span>

If, like me, you missed yesterday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee
\nquestioning of Sec’y of State nominee Condaleezza Rice,
\nFred Kaplan’s
\nSlate column<\/a> offers a nice run-down.  Even with a free day, I wouldn’t
\nhave watched the session (all nine hours) in its entirety, but I am interested
\nin the ways the next<\/i> Sec’y of State talks about what is happening in
\nIraq.  And the exchange between Kerry and Rice–where the two jostled for
\ndistinctive ways of framing the causes and complexities involved in Shiite and
\nSunni dispositions–and this representation of Kerry’s re-made role make it
\nworth the read:<\/p>\n

One remark in particular raised the possibility that Kerry might emerge, in
\n Bush’s second term, as an insistent critic of the president’s war policy. "Our
\n troops are stunning, superb," Kerry said, but "they’re going on missions that
\n are questionable in terms of what they’re going to achieve." Was it by chance
\n or intention that this statement–more than anything Kerry has uttered publicly
\n in the last 30 years–stirred memories of the famous line during his testimony
\n before this same committee in 1971, as a protesting Vietnam veteran: "How do
\n you ask someone to be the last man to die for a mistake?"\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On the immanence<\/strike> possibility of "regime change" in Iran:<\/p>\n

Rice replied that the administration’s goal is to have a regime in Iran
\n that’s responsive to U.S. concerns. She then noted that the current regime
\n stands "180 degrees" in opposition to those concerns–on nuclear weapons,
\n relations with al-Qaida, and support of Hezbollah. She added, "The Iranian
\n people, who are among some of the most worldly that we know–in a good sense–do
\n suffer under a regime that has been completely unwilling to deal with their
\n aspirations."\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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