(via Instapundit) Condi Rice has the following NYPost Op-Ed describing the Bush National Security Strategy.   As usual, she comes across as a very intelligent, articulate, and highly competent spokesperson for Bush foreign policy.  She begins by stating:

Here in New York, about a third of the population was born abroad. Across the street from here is St. Bartholomew's, a Protestant church. Go three blocks to the east from here, and there's the Sutton Place Synagogue. Go a couple of blocks to the west, and you'll come to St. Patrick's Cathedral. Over the bridge in Queens, you'll find a Hindu temple.

Go uptown a few blocks from where we are, and you will come to the Manhattan Won Buddhist Temple on East 57th. Keep going north, and you will run into the Islamic Cultural Center on East 96th.

Go further up, and you will come to a Bronx neighborhood that used to be called "Banana Kelly" for its mix of immigrants from the Caribbean and Ireland. And there, a Jamaican-American family raised the boy who became the man who is now our secretary of state.

Rhetoric like this still make my eyes well up.  ;-)

In equating Saddam to Osama, Condi has the following to say:

We will break up terror networks, hold to account nations that harbor terrorists and confront aggressive tyrants holding or seeking nuclear, chemical and biological weapons that might be passed to terrorist allies.

These are different faces of the same evil. Terrorists need a place to plot, train and organize. Tyrants allied with terrorists can greatly extend the reach of their deadly mischief. Terrorists allied with tyrants can acquire technologies allowing them to murder on an ever more massive scale. Each threat magnifies the danger of the other. And the only path to safety is to effectively confront both terrorists and tyrants.

I sure hope (as does Instapundit) that we see a lot more of Condi in the decades to come.