Ex-Rice speechwriter: She doesn't have 'vaguest notion' of Middle East history

01/19/2007 @ 11:31 am

Filed by Michael Roston

An ex-State Department speechwriter today told the Wall Street Journal that his former boss Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice lacked a clear understanding of modern Middle Eastern history.

The article by Neil King, Jr., takes up the tendency of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to analogize current US policy in the Middle East with America's experience during the Cold War.