Peace Prize for Rice Would Appear Unlikely
Nancy Soderberg’s Feb. 20 Opinion piece -- “A Second-Term Shift?” -- is a fine analysis of the problems faced by the Bush administration’s foreign policy team now that the second term is underway. Despite gains in the Middle East, antipathy continues in Europe and other places in the world toward the president and those who represent America’s interests abroad, and with good reason.
Thus, any suggestion that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice could receive the Nobel Peace Prize for cleaning up a mess she helped to create is obscene.
Joan Walston
Santa Monica
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Soderberg must have lost her mind. How can she say that Rice may be in line for a Nobel Peace Prize? Doesn’t she realize that her candidate was one of the administration people lying in public to sell the idea of the illegal and misguided war in Iraq? Warmongers don’t get peace prizes. As for her prediction that Rice may go down in history as one of the most effective secretaries of State ever, this strikes me as just a little premature.
Hans Grellmann
Palos Verdes Estates
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