WASHINGTON — National security adviser Susan Rice appeared to be channeling her namesake and Republican predecessor Condoleezza on Monday [Sept. 9], when she insisted that if the United States failed to strike Syria for its apparent use of chemical weapons “more of the world’s most dangerous weapons” could wind up in “the world’s most dangerous hands.”
Iran and North Korea, Rice claimed, “will be emboldened to push harder for the world they want,” if the United States does not act. “We will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon,” Rice told an audience at the New American Foundation in Washington. “For our efforts to succeed, the leaders in Tehran must know the United States means what it says.”