What a joke!

The Secretary of State of USA used to command so much power and respect. When John Foster Dulles or Henry Kissinger or Madeleine Albright went to visit a country, it was a safe bet they are going to make an impact. I feel that our present Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is making a joke of this esteemed office. Many of her actions do not make any sense, or appear to be token efforts for some publicity. After the USA National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report came out early this week saying that Iran has no plans for developing nuclear weapons, she took off to Europe to convince Russia to continue with the sanctions against Iran! What was she thinking? She obviously did not learn anything from the insults she got from President Putin when she went there some weeks ago with a proposal for installing a ‘nuclear shield’ in the border countries of Russia to protect Europe from the 'future' nuclear missiles of Iran (Putin was expected to be so dumb not to see that the ‘shield’ could work the other way protecting USA from missile attacks from Russia!) She is oblivious to the fact that the Europeans supported sanctions against Iran as a means to restrain USA from causing a huge disaster by attacking Iran, and that fear is now gone with the NIE report. And what happened to the much ballyhooed conference in Annapolis Ms. Rice organized to resolve the Israeli-Palestine conflict? After the big publicity about getting all the leaders from Middle East to attend this, I have not heard anything more about it. What a joke!