Sometimes even U.N. diplomats have an exciting week. Or, as Susan Rice, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations said of her time last week, a “fascinating and frustrating and, really, in the end, depressing week.”

She was speaking Monday night in a discussion at the Core Club hosted by the New America Foundation and Foreign Policy magazine (the full audio of the event is available below). And she was, of course, speaking about the Russian-Chinese veto of a resolution sponsored by the Arab League, demanding that Syrian president Bashar al Assad step down and that his vice president negotiate a transition to democracy.