[lbo-talk] Condi's rapturous birth-pangs

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Colin Brace" <cb at lim.nl>
>
>    This is Condi's quote:
>
>        "What we're seeing here ... are the birth pangs of a new
>Middle East and whatever we do, we have to be certain that we are
>pushing forward to the new Middle East, not going back to the old
>one."

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
... And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"

                       -- William Butler Yeats

Carl