and that produced a lot of the dysfunction that people commented on. he puts it squarely on you. what do you say? don is a friend and will always be a friend but he is a grumpy guy. all right? he is. he doesn t know what he is talking about. he never followed me from the situation room to the oval office where the president and i would have intense discussions about what was going on in that room, who thought what. and whether the president would decide to go back in and keep seeing if you can find a consensus or whether the president would take a decision. the president was not shy about taking a decision. so don doesn t know what he is talking about. plus, i will write my own book and then we can talk about it. condoleezza rice, thank you very much. thank you very much. the next generation of children will grow up with this ubiquitous network of intelligence around them and they will take it for granted and will wonder how did you actually operate without knowing all this all
sxwrors that had a lot of dysfunction the people commented it. he puts it squarely on you. what do you say? don is a friend and will always be a friend but he is a grumpy guy. he is. he doesn t know what he is talking about. he never followed me from the situation room to the oval office where the president and i would have intense discussions about what was going on in that room, who thought what. and whether the president would decide to go back in and keep seeing if you can find a consensus or whether the president would take a decision. the president was not shy about taking a decision. so don doesn t know what he is talking about. plus, i will write my own book and then we can talk about it. condoleezza rice, thank you very much. thank you very much. next generation of children will grow up with this ubiquitous network of intelligence around them and they will take it for granted and will wonder how did you actually operate without knowing all this all the time? gah! [ c
though, the america that the world wanted to see and cooperative, multilateral america rely on other people to get involved? i think very important point i need to emphasize here is don t underestimate the sophistication of the elite overseas and their understanding world. of what s happening in the world. they always look at both american rhetoric and american power. it is present everywhere. if american power is present in israel and palestine, present everywhere, you cannot lead from behind. you are involved. you are there. you are participating. i have to say when we lead from the front you call us unilateral. when we lead from behind you say we are not leading from the front. it s a little no damned if you do and damned if you don t. i think it s about the
this president came in knowing this was his job. he has done a number of things that are going to take a while to don t you feel a lack of urgency? as somebody who lives in beijing, and i look at the amount of urgency on economic policy planning. i come back to the united states and spend time in washington and new york. i don t feel nearly the sense of urgency. no. on the contrary. we are having real huge debates. first about the 11 budget and now the debate about the debt ceiling is enormous. we are going to figure out what the consensus is. 9% unemployment and no job bill. how can that possibly because the american political process has focused first on the debt and deficit. which is right because we know long term we have the chief of the head of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mullen, says our deficit and long-term debt is the biggest national security threat we face. secretary of state says that. the president as a national security strategy that says we ha
don is a friend but is a grumpy buy. he is. he doesn t know what he s talking about. fascinating discussion with google s executive chairman eric schmidt about the great babble between apple and google. why it matters who will win. here is my take. pakistan s military has been embarrassed, to put it mildly, by the suspicion it must have known where bin laden was hiding. in response it is using its old tricks. hoping to ride out the storm as it has in the past. it is leaking stories to favor right journalists, all with the aim of stoking anti-americanism in pakistan. having been caught in a situation that suggests either complicity with al qaeda or gross incompetence and the realities frontally a bit of both, it is now furiously trying to change the subject. angrily denouncing america for entering the country. pakistani friend put it to me this way. it is like a person caught in