Ex-Rice speechwriter: She doesn't have 'vaguest notion' of Middle East history

January 19, 2007
Ex-Rice speechwriter: She doesn't have 'vaguest notion' of Middle East history

Garfinkle added, "No one in a senior position in this administration seems to have even the
vaguest notion of modern Middle Eastern history."

"The reason that I cite some of these other times, like Europe, is that it is so clear in
everybody's mind that the United States and its allies came out victorious at the end of the Cold
War," she said in Kuwait. "But if you...look at the events that ultimately lead to that, you would
have thought that this was failing every single day between 1945-1946 and probably 1987 or
1988."