Journal ENtries on Ambassador Susan Rice - Book Report/Review Example

This lack of authenticity is ultimately likely to backfire, in US foreign relations policy. Ambassador Rice’s comments reek of hopelessness. She invalidates Palestinian efforts at the United Nations. She implies that no solution will work unless it complies with Obama’s efforts. But bias, lack of vision, and deception are a shaky foundation on which to build foreign policy. http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2011/09/susan-rice-usa-on-non-proliferationiran-syria-libya-sudan-security-council-media-stakeout.

html September 7, 2011 Ambassador Rice has a very convoluted way of speaking. With each thing she states, she is careful to make an opposite, balancing statement as well. She camouflages empty statements with a lot of name-dropping, saying nothing but citing five to 7 panels, councils, agencies, position titles, etc. She does this, not only with each answer, but also with nearly every sentence. I think this would lead the average observer to conclude that she is actually saying something of great importance.

She blinks for emphasis, as she speaks, blinking on the words her tone and rhythm emphasizes, and she blinks ridiculously often while questions are being asked of her. This has the effect of making her appear to be serious and nerdy, but it is only an appearance and may in fact be cultivated. She smiled only twice: once in response to a question mentioning terrorism, and once as she left the podium and exited the room, while questions were still being asked. In response to a question about specific and serious violations by Iran, she answers that there are “numerous violations”, then mentions arms shipments and ballistic missiles, in the most general of terms.

She repeatedly prefaces statements of US/UN interference by saying, “The good news is…”. When asked about human rights violations with a UN representative, she first had a look of what I perceived to be shock, then, placing her hand on her heart, dramatically, she stated that, “Obviously we strongly condemn any use of force …..”. Her body language seemed so heartfelt, yet she is no stranger to human rights violations and her entire speech was primarily about UN and US sanctions against various sovereign nations.

She mentions “transparency” several times, yet she cultivates a deceptive manner, in presentation. The impact of deception and staged presentation in a talk about threat, interference, sanctions, violations and Iran’s desire to build a nuclear weapon is such that the US is not placed in a respectable foreign policy position. This invites trouble and discounts any efforts to be gently influential. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/22/interview_with_ambassador_susan_rice_111462.

html September 22, 2011 Ambassador Rice seems to be utilizing the most immature response methodologies possible to those countries considered US enemies. Iran’s volatile President made a fierce verbal attack against the US and its allies, and she responds by using name-calling, characterizing the Iranian President and his behavior as “unsavory”, “odious”. “hateful”, “anti-Semitic”, “unacceptable”, “outrageous”, “dishonest”, and “offensive”. Furthermore, she bragged about all the restrictions and limitations placed