This probably is the best one could expect from this newspaper with its highly slanted coverage of all issues relating to the Bush administration, including the supposedly objective news pages. Dr Rice has presided over a highly successful period for American foreign policy. New leaders have been elected in Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Georgia, Sweden, and other countries who are much more supportive of U.S. foreign policy than their anti-American predecessors who were in power at the end of the Clinton administration. And the U.N. has elected during her term at State a strong friend of the U.S. who has started to deal with the massive corruption and anti-Americanism in the U.N. of his predecessor. Why are these points not brought out in her favor? The author loses some credibility when Richard Armitage is quoted. One of her former colleagues spent weeks in jail because he leaked the name of the wife of Joseph Wilson. Nobody in Washington trusts anything Mr Armitage has said.