Rice: "a ring that scares the hell out of America's allies in the region"

[dave123williams]

Huffpo had a link to it this morning:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1219325,0

Now, it's linking to nothing, and I really want to read that. Anybody know where it's cached?

[baldguy]

1. Condi in Diplomatic Disneyland

Viewpoint: The Secretary of State tells the Lebanese that the blood they're seeing represents the birth of a brave new order. She's convincing nobody

By TONY KARON

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faced a thankless, all but impossible task in trying to sell the Arab world on the U.S. policy of delaying a cease-fire so that the Israeli military can continue its anti-Hizballah campaign. But her case was hardly helped when she explained that the violence that has already killed more than 400 Lebanese and turned more than a half million into refugees represents the "birth pangs of a new Middle East." Phrases like that — and her rejection of the call for an immediate cease-fire on the grounds that "whatever we do, we have to be certain that we're pushing forward to the new Middle East, not going back to the old Middle East" — carry a revolutionary ring that scares the hell out of America's allies in the region. It was revolutionaries like Lenin and Mao, after all, who rationalized violence and suffering as the wages of progress, in the way a doctor might rationalize surgery — painful, bloody, even risking the life of the patient, but ultimately necessary. Social engineering is not surgery, however, and its victims find little comfort in the homilies of its authors.

more:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1219325,00.html

[mediaman007]

3. Sounds like: "Old Europe, New Europe!"

and "Homeland" as in Homeland Security. I have to admit that I was repulsed when the Bush* administration dropped the word "homeland" into our vocabulary. Make no mistake, the word was tested and resonated very strongly with the Neocons/Nazis in our country. Sickening, yuck!

The question that begs an answer: How will Rove be able to spin the death/destruction in Lebanon into a November victory? Maybe that's why the Democrats came down strong against the Iraqis Prime Minister. They were trying to get the high ground before Rove could grab it!

Now, maybe the Democrats will pin the loss of Iraq to Iran's influence will be used against the far right.

Sorry for the ramble.

[dave123williams]

7. Brilliant. Thank you.

[Fridays Child]

2. It'll come up, if you Google that quote in Google News.

[dave123williams]

8. I tried that today, but it didn't work....somebody posted the link above..

[tanyev]

4. Oh, I thought you meant this ring.

[baldguy]

5. Frodo has failed!

[dave123williams]

6. No, dude. He's got the ring, and he's making for the volcano right now.

[oasis]

9. Condi and Bolton trying to sell "Project for the New Middle East Century".

:puke: