Editing Condoleezza Rice (section)

===Conservative criticism===

According to ''[[The Washington Post]]'' in late July 2008, former undersecretary of state and U.N. ambassador [[John R. Bolton]] was referring to Rice and her allies in the Bush Administration whom he believes abandoned earlier hard-line principles when he said: "Once the collapse begins, adversaries have a real opportunity to gain advantage. In terms of the Bush presidency, this many reversals this close to the end destroys credibility ... It appears there is no depth to which this administration will not sink in its last days."<ref name = "Eggen, WashingtonPost2008">{{cite news |first = Dan |last = Eggen |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/19/AR2008071901597.html |title = U.S. Talks With Iran Exemplify Bush's New Approaches |newspaper = The Washington Post |page = A4 |date = July 20, 2008 |access-date = July 21, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081013055423/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/19/AR2008071901597.html |archive-date = October 13, 2008 |url-status = live }}</ref>

Former [[United States Secretary of Defense|secretary of defense]] [[Donald Rumsfeld]] repeatedly criticized Rice after their terms in office ended. In his book ''[[Known and Unknown: A Memoir]]'', he portrayed her as a young, inexperienced academic who did not know her place.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.macleans.ca/news/world/rummys-still-swinging/|title=Rumsfeld lashes out at John McCain, Condoleezza Rice, and others. Bush's former secretary of defence is still swinging|first=Luiza|last=Savage|date=February 14, 2011|access-date=April 5, 2012|work=[[Maclean's]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320212650/http://www.macleans.ca/news/world/rummys-still-swinging/|archive-date=March 20, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2011, she responded, saying that Rumsfeld "doesn't know what he's talking about."<ref>{{cite news|url = https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/condoleezza-rice-fires-back-grumpy-donald-rumsfeld-132950462.html|first = Rachel Rose|last = Hartman|date = April 28, 2011|title = Condoleezza Rice fires back at 'grumpy' Donald Rumsfeld|newspaper = The Ticket&nbsp;— Yahoo News|access-date = June 26, 2012|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080601094302/http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/condoleezza-rice-fires-back-grumpy-donald-rumsfeld-132950462.html|archive-date = June 1, 2008|url-status = live}}</ref> She further addresses the issue in her own book, saying "He would become frustrated when my staff would reach out to military officers in the Pentagon to coordinate the particulars of a policy among the agencies. This was a routine responsibility for the [[United States National Security Council|NSC]], but for some reason Don interpreted such actions as a violation of his authority."<ref name="NHH">{{cite book |last=Rice |first=Condoleezza |date=2011 |title=No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington |edition=eBook|location=New York |publisher=Broadway Books |page=18 |isbn=978-0-307-95247-9}}</ref>

In his book ''In My Time'', [[Dick Cheney]] suggested that Rice had misled the president about nuclear diplomacy with North Korea, saying that she was naïve. He called her advice on the issue "utterly misleading." He also chided Rice for clashing with White House advisers on the tone of the president's speeches on Iraq and said that she, as the secretary of state, ruefully conceded to him that the Bush administration should not have apologized for a claim the president made in his 2003 State of the Union address, on Saddam's supposed search for yellowcake uranium. She "came into my office, sat down in the chair next to my desk, and tearfully admitted I had been right," Cheney wrote. Rice responded: "It certainly doesn't sound like me, now, does it?", saying that she viewed the book as an "attack on my integrity."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2011/0901/Condi-Rice-fires-back-at-Dick-Cheney |date=September 1, 2011 |title=Condi Rice fires back at Dick Cheney |first=Husna |last=Haq |website=[[The Christian Science Monitor]] |access-date=May 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170321071828/http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2011/0901/Condi-Rice-fires-back-at-Dick-Cheney |archive-date=March 21, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Rice has also been criticized by other conservatives. Stephen Hayes of the ''Weekly Standard'' accused her of jettisoning the [[Bush Doctrine]], including the [[Iraq War troop surge of 2007]].<ref>{{cite journal |first=Stephen F. |last=Hayes |url=https://www.weeklystandard.com/stephen-f-hayes/in-the-drivers-seat |title=In the Driver's Seat |journal=[[Weekly Standard]] |volume=13 |issue=36 |date=October 9, 2006 |access-date=May 27, 2019 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823023053/https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/in-the-drivers-seat |url-status=dead }}</ref> Other conservatives criticized her for her approach to Russia policy and other issues.<ref>{{cite news |first=Claudia |last=Rosett |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2008/08/georgia-and-american-cowboy-jrinternet/ |title=Georgia and the American Cowboy |work=[[National Review]] |date=August 12, 2008 |access-date=May 27, 2019 |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823023036/https://www.nationalreview.com/2008/08/georgia-and-american-cowboy-jrinternet/ |url-status=live }}</ref>