Bret Stephens interviews Condi Rice at the Wall Street Journal:
…The conversation ranges from Bolivian coca to Iranian IEDs to administration leaks. Some of what she says is bland, some of it bunk, some of it smart and some of it revealing. It all takes shape in sentences that flow one from the other, paragraphs that maintain their discipline and logic, arguments that never lose sight of their destination, even when they digress. Ms. Rice is nothing if not a pleasure to listen to, which may explain why even critics who say she’s become too much a creature of the State Department would love to see her name on the Republican ticket in 2008.
… “I don’t think that this is a battle, if you will, or a struggle that’s going to be won on George W. Bush’s watch,” she says of the war on terror. Maybe this accounts for her sang-froid–at times seeming to border on emotional detachment–in the face of all the reversals in Baghdad, Beirut, Cairo and Ramallah: She chooses to read the present as if it were already the past.
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