More Rice, Less Concise
Again via Newsday:
Oddly enough, I agree with everything here.
However, like most things from the Bush administration, the goalposts seemed to have mysteriously moved.
Remember back in the old days...Say, oh circa 2003 when the whole middle-east deal was that the US was going to "shock and awe" the regimes of Syria and Iran into(and I can't find the specific quote, hence no quotation marks) toppling like dominoes?
I suspect that no one - save for the neo-cons, and their enablers - expected the 'greet us with roses' bit either. That's not what happens when you invade a sovereign country. It seems we(the US) only understand our own sense of nationalistic pride.
Yes, dear readers, it seems that even members of this administration, when confronted with baseball-bat-to-the-head evidence contrary to their ill-conceived ideas, can change their tune. It is noteworthy in this instance because their change in position wasn't forced by any investigation, or other untidiness.
Feral cat update: I've set the table(actually a paper plate with some kitty food on my back stoop), and hope to have a pic. of the critter later. She/he only comes by at night, or in the early morn.
Rice Condemns Iran for Israel Comment(more at link..you know the drill)
By ANNE GEARAN
AP Diplomatic Writer
November 13, 2005, 4:43 PM EST
JERUSALEM -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave her strongest rebuke yet on Sunday to the renewed hardline Islamic leadership of Iran, saying that "no civilized nation" can call for the annihilation of another.
Rice was referring to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's remark last month that Israel is a "disgraceful blot" that should be "wiped off the map." Her remarks drew applause from politicians, diplomats and others gathered for a U.S.-Israeli symposium.
"No civilized nation should have a leader who wishes or hopes or desires or considers it a matter of policy to express that ... some another country should be pushed into the sea," Rice said, speaking slowly and sternly. "It is unacceptable in the international system."
Speaking a day after part of her agenda for political openness in the Middle East ran into heavy weather, Rice also said the Bush administration is under no illusions about the difficulty of spreading democracy in the region.
"We are not naive about the pace, or difficulty, of democratic change," Rice said. "but we know that the longing for democratic change is deep and urgently felt."
Oddly enough, I agree with everything here.
However, like most things from the Bush administration, the goalposts seemed to have mysteriously moved.
Remember back in the old days...Say, oh circa 2003 when the whole middle-east deal was that the US was going to "shock and awe" the regimes of Syria and Iran into(and I can't find the specific quote, hence no quotation marks) toppling like dominoes?
I suspect that no one - save for the neo-cons, and their enablers - expected the 'greet us with roses' bit either. That's not what happens when you invade a sovereign country. It seems we(the US) only understand our own sense of nationalistic pride.
Yes, dear readers, it seems that even members of this administration, when confronted with baseball-bat-to-the-head evidence contrary to their ill-conceived ideas, can change their tune. It is noteworthy in this instance because their change in position wasn't forced by any investigation, or other untidiness.
Feral cat update: I've set the table(actually a paper plate with some kitty food on my back stoop), and hope to have a pic. of the critter later. She/he only comes by at night, or in the early morn.
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