Xavier,
How could she have helped prevent 9-11?
She had information that an attack was coming. Hitler had plans for suicidal attacks with aircraft on Manhattan skyscrapers.
She was NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER, and yet she did not advise. She did doodly-squat. It happened on her watch, and she blew it, bigtime.
As for Clinton, it didn't happen on his watch, so forget ranting about him.
She is an expert on the USSR. Putting her in a secretary of state was like hiring a horsecar conductor as chauffeur.
She wasn't qualified, she still isn't (though more than Juniorbush and Cheney are qualified for the jobs they have: they are utterly, unimaginably incompetent),
Colin Powell was competent and well-trained to be Secretary of State, and he knew what to do, but he was never listened to.
As for her being "articulate", no, she is not a great deliverer of speeches, and the ones she delivers she does not write, anyway. If you want an articulate Black person, I'd go with James Earl Jones or Morgan Freeman.
She will return to academia, write a book or two (with the help of a ghostwriter), or perhaps get some cushy job at a rightwing thinktank. She will not stick around to spit in the soup and crap in the punchbowl like Henry (the Thing that Will Not Die) Kissinger, and that's a good thing.
It's all over for Rice.