The neocon resurgence
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1830930,00.html
The delusional US mindset that made the Iraq war a disaster has
resurfaced in Lebanon
Sidney Blumenthal
Thursday July 27, 2006
The Guardian
Once again the Bush administration is floating on a wave of euphoria.
Israel's offensive against Hizbullah in Lebanon has liberated the
utopian strain of neoconservatism that had been traduced by Iraq's
sectarian civil war. And the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, has
propelled herself forward as chief cheerleader. "What we're seeing
here," she said, "are the birth pangs of a new Middle East." At every
press conference she repeats the phrase "a new Middle East" as though
its incantation is magical.
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