Editing Condoleezza Rice (section)

===Terrorist activity===
[[File:Rangin Dadfar Spanta et Condoleezza Rice.jpg|thumb|Rice meets with Afghan Foreign Minister [[Rangin Dadfar Spanta]] to discuss anti-terrorism efforts, 2006]]

Rice's policy as Secretary of State viewed [[counter-terrorism]] as a matter of being preventative, and not merely punitive. In an interview on December 18, 2005, Rice stated: "We have to remember that in this war on terrorism, we're not talking about criminal activity where you can allow somebody to commit the crime and then you go back and you arrest them and you question them. If they succeed in committing their crime, then hundreds or indeed thousands of people die. That's why you have to prevent, and intelligence is the long pole in the tent in preventing attacks."<ref>{{cite web |work=U.S. State Department |url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2005/58232.htm |title=Interview on Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace |date=December 18, 2005 |access-date=September 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117024327/https://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2005/58232.htm |archive-date=November 17, 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref>

Rice has promoted the idea that counterterrorism involves not only confronting the governments and organizations that promote and condone terrorism, but also the ideologies that fuel terrorism. In a speech given on July 29, 2005, Rice asserted that "[s]ecuring America from terrorist attack is more than a matter of law enforcement. We must also confront the ideology of hatred in foreign societies by supporting the universal hope of liberty and the inherent appeal of democracy."<ref>{{cite web |work=U.S. State Department |url=http://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2005/50375.htm |title=Remarks With Senator Richard Lugar on the U.S. Department of State and the Challenges of the 21st century |date=July 29, 2005 |access-date=June 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303232931/http://2001-2009.state.gov/secretary/rm/2005/50375.htm |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Former Secretary Rice Chats With a Member of the Saudi Royal Family.jpg|thumb|Rice chats with a member of the [[House of Saud|Saudi Royal Family]] after welcoming the new king [[Salman of Saudi Arabia]], January 27, 2015]]

In January 2005, during Bush's [[Inauguration Day|second inaugural ceremonies]], Rice first used the term "[[outposts of tyranny]]" to refer to countries Rice thought to threaten world peace and human rights. This term has been called a descendant of Bush's phrase, "[[Axis of Evil]]", used to describe [[Iraq]], Iran and [[North Korea]]. She identified six such "outposts" in which she said the United States has a duty to foster freedom: Cuba, [[Zimbabwe]], Burma and [[Belarus]], as well as Iran and North Korea.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}