AARP’s Whitewash of Condi Rice
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were largely instrumental in scaring the pants off the Congress and the American people in the misguided build up to the war in Iraq. Prior to 9/11, as the National Security Advisor to the President, her inability to see the overwhelming evidence of the impending terrorist threat was either colossal incompetence at best, or, at worst, a bloodless geopolitical calculation at the expense of 3,000 innocent American lives. Earlier, her record as the Provost point person in Stamford’s scuttling of the University’s affirmative action programs for blacks and women is equally uninspiring.

Your laudatory piece willingly ignores the fact that Ms. Rice is a heartless, calculating, inflexible cold warrior who’s life of service has been a credit to neither her sex or her race. To blithely ignore these facts deeply flaws your pretty little bio-op of the Secretary of State. If your editors would like to continue in this vein, I would suggest that Ann Reilly Dowd research some equally sycophantic articles on Imelda Marcos, Madame Diem, Elena Ceausescu and Ilse Koch.

To my mind, if the AARP Magazine can’t say something balanced and truthful about really what makes Condi run, it would be better to say nothing at all.

—Robert Boldt
—Jefferson City, MO