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04-14-08, 08:08 PM
Air Force gives honorary doctorate to Rice
Published: April 14, 2008 at 7:13 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force Monday conferred its first honorary doctorate on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in her home state of Alabama.
Rice, wearing a cap and gown at Air University on Maxwell Air Force Base near Montgomery, accepted the degree and then offered an assessment of the U.S. diplomatic and military operations in Afghanistan, the U.S. Defense Department said in a news release.
"Challenges like the ones that we faced at the end of World War II and the ones that we face now (in Afghanistan) can only be overcome with optimism about the power of our principles and our values," she said. "The power of our principles is that it makes those things that one day seemed impossible seem, after all, to have been inevitable."
The United States is deploying an additional 3,500 Marines to Afghanistan, Rice said, noting other countries were adding to their troop presence as well.
"The United States and the entire free world have a vital interest in the victory of our Afghan partners over the Taliban and the consolidation and the empowerment of an effective democratic state," she said.
Ellie
Published: April 14, 2008 at 7:13 PM
MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. Air Force Monday conferred its first honorary doctorate on Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in her home state of Alabama.
Rice, wearing a cap and gown at Air University on Maxwell Air Force Base near Montgomery, accepted the degree and then offered an assessment of the U.S. diplomatic and military operations in Afghanistan, the U.S. Defense Department said in a news release.
"Challenges like the ones that we faced at the end of World War II and the ones that we face now (in Afghanistan) can only be overcome with optimism about the power of our principles and our values," she said. "The power of our principles is that it makes those things that one day seemed impossible seem, after all, to have been inevitable."
The United States is deploying an additional 3,500 Marines to Afghanistan, Rice said, noting other countries were adding to their troop presence as well.
"The United States and the entire free world have a vital interest in the victory of our Afghan partners over the Taliban and the consolidation and the empowerment of an effective democratic state," she said.
Ellie