Enter Susan Rice. Thanks, Nic.
“For as long as I can remember I’ve had a job that requires me to juggle multiple balls. The number and the weight of the balls may be a little greater now. It’s a skill. I guess you can learn it, but I think it’s pretty intuitive. You can’t always catch every single ball. So you gotta know which ones are not going to explode like a grenade but will just sort of fall quietly.”
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Did you notice that Vietnam and the U.S. are seated next to one another?
Ha! If I were the Vietnamese delegate to the U.N., I would put lemon in Rice’s coffee. Take that you Internationalist! Realpolitik will always triumph over Idealpolitik!
I don’t know which seat I’d take. Vietnam or US?
Realpolitik — Who are you? Kenneth Waltz? Have you ever heard the guy speak?