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.