News: "Condi" Rice alarms Reformist Arabs with her "Stability" remarks

[Bluebear]

Oopsy daisy! Dr. Rice's "charm offensive" fails to "dazzle" Arab reformists!

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CAIRO (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has alarmed many reformist Arabs with comments suggesting a new U.S. approach that promotes rapid political change without regard for internal stability.

Rice said in an interview with the Washington Post last week the Middle East status quo was not stable and she doubted it would be stable soon. Washington would speak out for "freedom" without offering a model or knowing what the outcome would be.

"This a very dangerous scheme. Anarchy will be out of control," said Hassan Nafaa, a professor of political science at Cairo University and an advocate of gradual change.

A liberal Arab diplomat, who asked not to be named, said: "They seem to be supporting chaos and instability as a pretext for bringing democracy. But people would rather live under undemocratic rule than in the chaotic atmosphere of Iraq, for example, which the Americans tout as a model."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050329/pl_nm/mideast_stability_dc

[efhmc]

1. This woman is a freak, a train wreck waiting to happen.

[Bluebear]

2. Unfortunately we are passengers on that train!

:scared:

[grasswire]

3. was this policy from Wolfowitz's lover?

Sounds just like something she would develop.

I wonder if the four of them double-date. Condi, her husb...er the president, Wolfie and his lover.