Regime change at the State Department. - The Weekly Standard

The President wanted to put in place his new team quickly after the election.

The most significant decision was to send Rice to the State Department. Presidential aides insist no one else was in the running to replace Powell. ...

Her promotion also means the dysfunctional relationship with the Pentagon and State endlessly clashing over policy will cease.

One of Rice's tasks will be to impose these policies on the State Department without touching off a revolt or clandestine efforts to undermine the president, such as occurred at the CIA and is only now being quashed by the new director, Porter Goss. Rice, however, usually acts with a light touch. ...

President Bush is not a realist. He's a moralist who believes the best route to peace and security is through planting democracy in countries--Iraq, for one--where it doesn't exist.

Rice, too, is a moralist. This makes all the difference. more

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