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Blindsided or blind? Highly qualified but strangely inattentive, Condoleezza Rice has missed the signs of the Soviet collapse, the importance of terrorism before 9/11, and more. John Prados.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
July-August 2004 v60 i4 p27(11) (7110 words)
Instructions: Locate this article by visiting
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1. What are Rice’s qualifications for high-level government service in foreign affairs?
2. In what ways did she misunderstand the major changes in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe? What were the consequences?
3. In what ways can the case be made that Rice did not give the threat of terrorism against the United States the attention it deserved prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks?
4. How is Rice implicated in the misinformation given to the public and Congress to justify an invasion of Iraq?
5. What is one example of infighting within the top levels of the bureaucracy?
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