Rice to Visit Afghanistan, 3 Other Nations

[NVMojo]

Today: October 04, 2005 at 12:31:30 PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) -

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans to visit Afghanistan to encourage continued democratic progress amid rising violence that authorities blame on resurgent Taliban militants.

The State Department announced Tuesday that Rice will travel to Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan next week for discussions on economic development, security matters and democracy building. She may also visit other countries, spokesman Sean McCormack said.

A bomb exploded Tuesday near a key crossing point on the Afghan-Pakistan border, killing three people and wounding 20.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-exec/2005/oct/04/100402990.html

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. what? she is not following the wake of destruction left by hurricane Karen

and trying to repair the "repaired" relationships?

Who here wants to bet that Rice's trip will be a failure (she is apparently also trying to shore up perm. military sites for us)

And

Who here wants to bet that Karen Hughes resigns and heads back to Texas soon?

[bergamot]

2. More importantly,

is she returning to the USA?

[NVMojo]

3. Gawd, I hope not!! Extreme wishful thinking!!!

[rocktivity]

4. Maybe she'll have better luck than Karen Hughes

but aside from that...

:boring:
rocknation

[Roland99]

6. I can't believe the US foreign policy is being represented by those two.

Pretty damned sad.

[Canuckistanian]

5. She should go out in the countryside and visit the people there

Meet the "common folk" who are busy harvesting opium for their local warlord.

Or stop by the local Taliban office and discuss religious freedom issues.

I'm sure they'd be happy to see her.

[gademocrat7]

7. Are there designer shoe stores in Kabul that we don't know about?

She is an embarrassment.

[superconnected]

8. That poor place has had enough terrible stuff happen to it.

[ShockediSay]

9. What we need there is troops and recovery

of our previous victory in Afghanistan.

Not some didactic spin meister.

Rumsfeld, not Rice. Better yet, Wes Clark.