Condi Rice is delusional

It's frightening that this woman is in charge of U.S. foreign policy. She is as clueless as her boss. This Washington Post analysis gives the impression that Rice is completely oblivious to reality. She's living in some surreal world that she shares with her goofball President:

Rice announced that she had arranged a three-way meeting to discuss the contours of a Palestinian state, sidestepping questions about the political weakness of the Israeli and Palestinian leaders who would make a deal. She found generally tepid support from Arab leaders in the region for Bush's proposed military buildup in Iraq. She shrugged off a request from the emir of Kuwait that the United States engage directly with Iran and Syria to prevent the Iraqi conflict from spilling over its borders.

Even so, Rice told reporters traveling with her that, despite the day-to-day headaches and setbacks, she thinks that conditions are right now for a fundamental reordering of the Middle East.

"You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic context in which you are actually negotiating," she said Tuesday. "It is not deal-making. It's not. There are a set of underlying relationships, underlying balance of power, leverage on different sides, and you have to recognize when you are in a position to then, on top of that, find a solution given the underlying balance."

Under Rice's formulation, the time is not ripe to deal directly with Iran and Syria, both of which are causing problems in Iraq, because they have not indicated they are ready to change their behavior. While the Shiite-dominated Iraqi government is trying to build ties to Iran, which Rice said she does not oppose, the administration is ratcheting up the pressure, sending a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf. The United States has negotiated with seemingly implacable adversaries in the past -- the Soviet Union and Serbia's Slobodan Milosevic among them -- but Rice rejects those historical analogies as irrelevant.

Condi, you aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the world. And, clearly, you don't. You have no relationships. You have no leverage. You and your boss have destroyed America's credibility.