I must have been looking at a different Condi Rice for the last eight years.
Yes, she is a highly intelligent academician. IMO, she has been an utter failure in government.
As National Security Adviser, her role was to serve as the filter through which all policy recommendations were presented to the President. Cheney and Rumsfeld just ran right over her as if she didnt exist. She also completely ignored detailed information provided to her from the Clinton national security team about the al Queda threat in order to focus on a foreign policy objective with which she was more familiar and comfortable - missile defenses and the post-cold war Russian "threat" for the first eighth months of her term as security adviser.
As Secretary of State, career diplomats were on the verge of mass resignations, not because of her ideology, but rather as a result of her management and diplomatic skills or lack thereof. Bush had to bring in John Negroponte (a career diplomat and UN ambassador) to serve as the face of the State Department in most serious discussions with foreign counterparts for the last two years. She was reduced to a figurehead.
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