“The weight of international leadership is not borne easily,” Rice said, “but we as Americans are more than equal to this challenge, and we must be, for if we imagine a world without American leadership we are led inescapably to this solemn conclusion: If America does not serve great purposes, if we do not rally other nations to fight intolerance and support peace and defend freedom, and to help give all hope who suffer oppression, then our world will drift toward tragedy.”
The truly terrifying thing is that she probably believes, in the face of all the evidence so amply provided by the current administration, that she is fulfilling this aspiration. But from where I stand, she and her colleagues are part of the problem, not part of the solution…
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