Summary Of No Higher Honor By Condoleezza Rice

No Higher Honor by Condoleezza Rice is the first truly political book I have read in a while. She covers her beginnings in the administration as the National Security Advisor and moves through her time as Secretary of State. Rice also talks about what she dealt with as she worked with important people in her time and problems she faced, which was interesting. It was a very long tragic path and intense decade, but even though some parts in the book were long to read it was well written and interesting to read.

At the time when George W. Bush decided to run for president, he chose as his top foreign-policy adviser a former National Security Council staffer who was close to his father, Condoleezza Rice. Ms. Rice served as principal at Stanford

Rice bigger part as chief advocate of the humane, thoughtful foreign policy of George Bush second administration, “The time for negotiation is now,”(Rice) she indicated in the 2005 hearing to confirm her as secretary of state. The second Bush term would be different from the first one. What I don’t understand in “No Higher Honor” is why she input plenty of detail on the behind the scenes guiding what consumes the lives of diplomats, but it's possible to finish the book pages without knowing or understanding Ms. Rich boss's general shift in thinking or why she was able to change his

stratagem wasn’t succeeding. In the year of 2005, squads in the Pentagon, State Department, the National Security Council, and the office of the vice president operated unconnectedly towards coming up with new strategies. The NSC and vice president pushed for an “outpouring” of troops in Iraq in support of a counter-insurgency strategy; Ms. Rice was uncertain. In the book “No Higher Honor,” Ms. Rice describes a “disorderly” conference of the top national-security officials on a Sunday after Thanksgiving in the year 2006. While others pushed upwelling, Ms. Rich shared her worries, “So are we now responsible for the security of the Iraqi population or is that the job of their government?”(Rich) Ms. Rice wanted to withdraw the U.S. troops from Iraqi cities until the Iraqi government compellingly put an end to factional slaughters. It was one of the few point of views in the second term that Ms. Rich lost. Its also one of the many successful policies president George Bush