Change Condi Doesn’t Believe In

Condi and crew may be vacating the State Department in January, but she expects her policy to stick around for some time. Rice told the Financial Times that she expects Barack Obama will follow President Bush’s lead on several foreign policy issues, including Iran. Rice cited President Bush’s cooperation with other countries like the European Union, China, and Russia during his second term. “The reason why there might be some elements of continuity,” she said, “is that what we’ve tried to do is to arrange or organize international groupings that can first manage and then resolve these very difficult problems in a multilateral way.” She also cited this approach on North Korea and Israel-Palestine.