Op-Ed Contributor: Why Nobody Saw 9/11 Coming: "Ms. Rice, spelling out the foreign policy priorities of a Bush White House, argued that after years of drift under the Clinton administration, United States foreign policy had to concentrate on the 'real challenges' to American security. This included renewing 'strong and intimate relationships' with allies, and focusing on 'big powers, particularly Russia and China.' In Ms. Rice's view, the threat of non-state terrorism was a secondary problem in her to do list' it was under the category of 'rogue regimes,' to be tackled best by dealing 'decisively with the threat of hostile powers.'"
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