Feb. 8, 2005--

Condoleeza Rice's speech today in France leaves the first of many giant footprints on the landscape of history; Rice and Bush focus on posterity rather than "legacy."

            Commentary-- Few of Condoleeza Rice's critics will realize that today they witnessed a giant stride across the stage of history.  Her speech to the French will fall mostly on deaf ears for now, just as many of Churchill's speeches fell on deaf ears in the 1930's.  In the long march of history, she is playing a pivotal role as a major architect of a foreign policy that will be greatly appreciated by posterity.  Unlike most politicians, her (and George Bush's) focus is not on the self-absorbed concept of a "legacy" on which most pundits also tend to focus; rather, it's on posterity.  

            Richard Nixon may have been focusing on his "legacy" in opening the door to China, but despite his many flaws, he was obviously more focused on posterity, which is why-- despite those flaws-- history will remember him as a pivotal figure in history whose beneficial effects on posterity far outweigh the burden of Watergate.  Critics of George Bush and Condi Rice (and Rumsfeld and Cheney) are too shortsighted to see that their toppling Saddam Hussein too soon rather than too late was a great accomplishment rather than a failure.

            In writing the hist'ry of men, it's clear when the writing begins throughout hist'ry's years there rarely appears a giant who strides among men.  And rarely the writers of news perceive that the future will view the footprints in news that hist'ry will view as footprints of giants in news.  The "experts" who cannot eschew critiques microscopic in view see history's fixtures like pixels in pictures as parts, not a whole, to be viewed.

            The pygmies who stride among men can't see where horizons extend, so Teddy and Jacques and Kerry cannot perceive who's a giant to them.  But giants who stride among men have vision designed to extend from close microscopic to broad macroscopic to see what the future portends.  So who is a giant au fait to see routes of hist'ry to take with stature enough for vision above the Fog?  Condoleeza at State.  In case you prefer the design of comments that nat'rually rhyme, read-on for this text repeated and set according to rhythm and rhyme.

Giant Among Men.

In writing the hist'ry of men,
it's clear when the writing begins
throughout hist'ry's years
there rarely appears
a giant who strides among men.

And rarely the writers of news
perceive that the future will view
the footprints in news
that hist'ry will view
as footprints of giants in news.

The "experts" who cannot eschew
critiques microscopic in view
see history's fixtures
like pixels in pictures
as parts, not a whole, to be viewed.

The pygmies who stride among men
can't see where horizons extend,
so Teddy and Jacques
and Kerry cannot
perceive who's a giant to them.

But giants who stride among men
have vision designed to extend
from close microscopic
to broad macroscopic
to see what the future portends.

So who is a giant au fait 
to see routes of hist'ry to take
with stature enough
for vision above
the Fog?  Condoleeza at State.

--Jim Wrenn, Editor at PoliSat.Com.

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