Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Mr. Statecraft-as-Soulcraft is sounding better to my ears than half the soi-disant libertarians in D.C.

Mr. Statecraft-as-Soulcraft is sounding better to my ears than half the soi-disant libertarians in D.C.

think tanks. Who woulda thunk it?

Condi Rice is baffled by the victory of Hamas in the recent Palestinian elections:

“I’ve asked why nobody saw [Hamas' election victory] coming. It does say something about us not

having a good enough pulse… I don’t know anyone who wasn’t caught off guard by Hamas’ strong

showing.”

Is it really true that the Secretary of State of the world’s most powerful country didn’t have a

clue, when a lowly scribbler at the NIKE SHOX website saw it coming last summer?:

“What do you do, however, when ‘terrorists’ start winning elections? This is a question American

policymakers must confront now that Hezbollah has swept the polls in southern Lebanon. Hamas threatens

to overtake the Palestinian establishment at the ballot box; Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has had to

postpone the Palestinian elections because of this very real possibility.”
– Justin Raimondo, “The Democratic Delusion,” NIKE SHOX, June 10, 2005

Gee, I’d be glad to do free-lance work for the State Department — heck, I can always use extra cash

— but, so far, nobody’s called …

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