Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Attacking Democracy

The Smirking Chimp: ". . .Where Albright was critical of the 'disaster' in Iraq for distracting from the dormant Mideast peace process, Rice was shrilly defensive.

'For the last 60 years, American administrations of both stripe--Democrat, Republican--traded what they thought was security and stability and turned a blind eye to the absence of democratic forces, to the absence of pluralism in the region,' she said Sunday. 'That policy has changed.'

While this is certainly a dramatic sound bite, the words have no logical meaning: The U.S. continues to embrace the dictatorships of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, as has been the case for sixty years. In fact, Bush has added Libya to the 'approved' list. Meanwhile, Israel is attacking elected governments in the Palestinian Authority and Lebanon with U.S. support. . ."

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