Prometheus 6

Dr. Rice gave a speech inaugurating a new term of art on Thursday. Don't know how I missed that.

Rice used the term "American realism" 16 times in her remarks, an apparent effort to coin a phrase that would resonate long after the administration leaves office in 19 months. It was the first time that Rice has offered an overriding label for the administration's foreign policy since 2000, when, as an adviser to then-Gov. George W. Bush, she wrote an article for Foreign Affairs stressing that a new Republican administration would focus on promoting "the national interest" rather than the interests of the international community.

Interestingly, she not only tried to justify Bushism with the connotations the phrase conjures, she further seperated this policy from the Republican base.

Strikingly, Rice cited a progressive Republican (Teddy Roosevelt) and a Democrat (Truman) as the administration's models, but she never mentioned conservative icon Ronald Reagan.

This will allow Conservative to declare victory in their attempts to prove Bush isn't a real Conservative. Accidental? Forward-thinking? Haven't got a clue. Just a prediction, though I may not have made it had I not digested the video I posted about The Strategy Paradox.