Dick and Condi

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Our must-read of the day comes from Michael Hirsh and Mark Hosenball of Newsweek, who have a good article up on the conflict between Condi Rice and Dick Cheney over such issues as Iran. It is essentially a battle for control of whatever is left of Bush's foreign policy.

In a nutshell, as one might expect: She wants diplomacy; he wants war. (Although one could argue, and should, that they've both had a key hand in the unmitigated disaster that has been Bush's foreign policy. She was just as much, or almost as much, a warmongerer on Iraq, for example. Needless to say, though, she's much, much more preferable than he.) But read the whole thing.

(For some commentary, see Sadly, No!, TNH, MvdG, and TMV.)