This is one of the best articles I’ve read in a long time. It’s one of the first to fully recognize the shift in American foreign policy. Of course this author is afraid and like her colleagues quick to blaspheme Rice and the America she represents. Secretary Rice IS in fact the spokesperson for the global revolution. Change can be frightening for some but no longer is Rice just an American diplomat. The global revolution has been underway for years, but as yet had no spokesperson. None before this journalist has made note that an American, specifically Secretary Rice, is the revolution's official spokesperson. Journalists are people too and in any group of people, there are some visionaries and some who are blind to their surroundings. History points out that American revolutionaries established constitutional freedom of the press, and spilled blood to protect it. The idiotic parallels --- between Lenin, Mao --- this fool makes may be entirely lost on her and on Time Magazine altogether, but they are not lost on revolutionary Americans. Despotism and acompaning moral relativism are responsible for more blood, pain and subjugation than any other human activity. Moral relativism has played a major role in obstructing the march of freedom across much of Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. However, it comes as no surprise that moral relativism hasn’t stopped freedom's march. Freedom is the natural state of human affairs! I am proud to know that a revolutionary American is now its official spokesperson! Thank you Secretary Rice!
How do you define freedom? Or of what does freedom consist?
"This is one of the best articles I’ve read in a long time. It’s one of the first to fully recognize the shift in American foreign policy. Of course this author is afraid and like her colleagues quick to blaspheme Rice and the America she represents. Secretary Rice IS in fact the spokesperson for the global revolution. Change can be frightening for some but no longer is Rice just an American diplomat."
It is not blasphemy to acknowledge Rice's manifold failures. Ideas are one thing, having the knowledge and know how to maneuver among the realities of the Middle East to keep those ideas on track, instead of constantly being derailed by events you should have, but failed to anticipate does not make Rice a revolutionary, it makes her a bumbler.
(1)She was travelling when the current crisis broke out and before she had time to really hear the President's point of view, her first opinion off the top of her head was to join the Amen chorus for an immediate cease fire. She changed her tune only after detailed conversations with the White House. She is now not following her and her handler's (Burns) policy, she is following the demands of the White House.
(2)She and Nicholas Burns failed to listen to Abbas and his warnings before the Palestinian elections; pushed them through in spite of Abbas admonitions that the timing was premature and would lead to a Hamas Victory.
(3)Hezbolla has been getting missiles from Iran and building deep protected tunnels and bunkers almost since the last Israeli soldier left, in 2000, while Rice and Burns have relied, like fools, on verbal assurances from Syria that Hezbolla would not be allowed to get foolish.
(4)Christian and Druze Lebanese leaders warned Rice and Burns that elections there held immediately behind a Syrian withdrawal would only enthrone a political status quo of a non-majority government imposed by election formulas put in place by Syria. But Rice and Burns wouldn't listen.
(5)In both cases, Palestine and Lebanon, facts on the ground took second place with Rice and Burns to their public relations campaign of "helping democracy". In both cases their elevation of their own PR goals meant their actions were helping produce very flawed results and worse, giving a bad name to "democracy".
As it is now, Hezbolla has a good chance of becoming the defacto "official" voice in Lebanon and make Lebanon the a Taliban-style failed-state like Afghanistan was in 2001.
Thank you Condoleeza Rice.