Oh, Really Rice?

That's Ms. Rice.

Condoleezza Rice.

United States Secretary of State Rice.

I don't know about you but when I read what follows through (quickly, I'll admit), I thought I perceived something very, very wrong with Ms. Rice's thinking.

But, first, here's the excerpt from a question-and-answer session after a speech she gave at Georgetown University in Washington on January 18:-

In Iraq, she said, "It's difficult for people who have solved their differences, their entire existence by fighting and by coercion and by repression and by violence, it's really hard for them to find a way to resolve their differences by politics instead, and by compromise. It's really hard in Afghanistan, where you still have terrorists who will blow up innocent children at a moment's notice. It's really hard to go to a place like Jordan and see this hotel where this wedding party, of all things, was blown up by a suicide bomber. It's hard to see the difficulties that the Palestinian people live with every day. It's really hard. But it's been hard before for countries that made it."

a. Granted, it's hard. But what seems to be hard for her is distinguishing between
cause and effect.

b. In Palestine it's hard????
Like in Iraq? Like in Afghanistan? Like in Jordan?
To what is she comparing us?
We are doing to them what they are doing to us? (see next point)

c. Now, just wait. Who is doing the suicide bombing here? The Israelis or the Pals.? We are not terrorizing an innocent, uninvolved civilian population. We are causing hardship to a population which is fighting us, which rejects our existence, which has been doing so for over 80 years now no matter what borders we possess.

Someone needs to instruct Ms. Rice in how not to make theings stick.