Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has a new book coming out next week called No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington. In the book, she writes about her meeting with the recently executed Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi.
The Daily Beast has an excerpt from the book. She writes: “This is going pretty well, I thought. He doesn’t seem crazy. Then, as Amado had predicted, he suddenly stopped speaking and began rolling his head back and forth. ‘Tell President Bush to stop talking about a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine!’ he barked. ‘It should be one state! Israeltine!’ Perhaps he didn’t like what I said next. In a sudden fit, he fired two translators in the room. Okay, I thought, this is Qaddafi.”
In the book, Rice also expresses regrets for not responding quick enough to the seriousness of Hurricane Katrina. The AP has more: “…Rice regrets having gone shoe-shopping and out for a night at the theater while Hurricane Katrina ravaged the US Gulf coast…”