Condi Rice, Secretary of Doormats

Is it just me, or does anyone else wonder how if Condi Rice wasn't able to stand up to Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, or to referee the testosterone laden disputes b/w those two and Powell which is, after all, her job --- how the heck she is going to stand up to or go toe to toe with a real warrior like Ariel Sharon? Not that I'm complaining, as a pro-Israel anti-Palestinian terrorist hawk, but c'mon.