Condi Ends Boffo Tour, Flies Home

Monsters and Critics

Lebanon`s an-Nahar said in a commentary Thursday that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice`s Middle East tour to sell the new Bush plan in Iraq has two problems: One she came with and the another she left with.
Kuwait`s al-Rai al-Aam said according to the new 'stupid American strategy' in Iraq, it alienates the country`s two most important neighbors although Iraq needs its neighbors` cooperation to contain the security conditions.

Peter Hain, Northern Ireland and Wales Secretary - on her sales pitch:

"It's not only failed to provide a coherent international policy, it's failed wherever it's been tried and it's failed with the American electorate."

Brunei Times

"Since Rice took over as the office of Secretary of State, she had made eight visits to the area without any concrete success because of the US tilt towards the Israeli regime"

Speigal Online

"Rice's trip was meant to signal a new start for trans-Atlantic ties, but if anything, relations are worse now."

International Herald Tribune

"Condoleezza Rice flies home Friday with just enough progress to shield herself from criticism that the trip was a bust."