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I've been priviledged to see a great number of well-known speakers at Google, and today's proved to be another one: United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
It's important for me to mention that I'm really, really not a fan of Condoleezza. That being said, she's clearly a highly intelligent person and accomplished public speaker. She was asked a number of questions ranging from Iraq policy, to climate change reform, to the use of torture to extract information of vital national importance, to US/UK relations. Her answers were always cogent, and I found myself satisfied by most of them. (Her answer on torture was straight out of the administration playbook, and disturbing).
David Miliband seems to be a fine fellow, a well spoken person with refined views on geopolitics. Nothing terribly outstanding about anything he had to say, although my impression of his response to the question on climate change was that was trying to subtly say the UK was doing a better job than the US. :-)
It's important for me to mention that I'm really, really not a fan of Condoleezza. That being said, she's clearly a highly intelligent person and accomplished public speaker. She was asked a number of questions ranging from Iraq policy, to climate change reform, to the use of torture to extract information of vital national importance, to US/UK relations. Her answers were always cogent, and I found myself satisfied by most of them. (Her answer on torture was straight out of the administration playbook, and disturbing).
David Miliband seems to be a fine fellow, a well spoken person with refined views on geopolitics. Nothing terribly outstanding about anything he had to say, although my impression of his response to the question on climate change was that was trying to subtly say the UK was doing a better job than the US. :-)
