Former Bush Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has a pretty sharp message for Democratic lawmakers who don’t want to send more U.S. troops to an unpopular war in Afghanistan that seems to be getting worse.
“If you want another terrorist attack in the U.S., abandon Afghanistan,” she said.
Those comments appear in a rather fawning story by FORTUNE’s Nina Easton. Rice said:
The last time we left Afghanistan, and we abandoned Pakistan that territory became the very territory on which Al Qaeda trained and attacked us on September 11th. So our national security interests are very much tied up in not letting Afghanistan fail again and become a safe haven for terrorists.
Rice also had a prediction on Iran. She described the regime there as “vulnerable right now.”
I don’t know whether it’s a year from now or five years from now, but that regime is done.
Read the whole story here.
