"National security adviser Condoleezza Rice likened Iraq's halting steps toward self-government to black Americans' struggle for civil rights, imploring black journalists Thursday to reject arguments that some people are incapable of democracy ..."
After the Niger uranium shipment embarrassment, for which Ms. Rice took the fall, it appears that she and the rest of the national security crew is making a hard and consistent turn toward the neo-con line that the first and last rationale for the invasion and occupation of Iraq is to establish a "free market parliamentary democracy" that can anchor U.S. hegemony in the region. As I indicated in my last post, this is disingenuous only to a certain extent. Not all neo-cons are simply demagogic props for the likes of ExxonMobil, Halliburton, petrodollar-recycling banks, and so on -- they really believe their own windbaggery, no matter how little or how much U.S. policy conforms to their vision of imposing a Hayekian utopia by unilateral force. The key is to notice, as astute observers such as Naomi Klein notice, that there is not such a sharp ideological gap b/w the Clinton program for Serbia and the Bush program for Iraq.
John Gulick
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