Condoleezza Rice is a solid foreign-policy thinker who ought to make a fine secretary of state.(The Week)(Brief Article)

* Condoleezza Rice is a solid foreign-policy thinker who ought to make a fine secretary of state. She is an admirable combination of what might be called realism and idealism (though the terms are too crude): The Reagan experience, as she said in a 1999 interview with NR, modified the straight balance-of-power Kissingerianism she had previously espoused. In a 2002 interview with us, she spoke of "power" and "values," "inseparable" to her. Among her duties as secretary of state will be that of managing the department--which has not exactly been a friend to President Bush and his policies. When Rice was national security adviser, her managerial skills were called into question; they will have to be sharp as tacks for State. The man she replaces, Colin ...