Courtesy of Marc Lynch over at Abu Aardvark (you should go there and read the whole post):
Karen Hughes should quit immediately. Get somebody in as an acting public diplomacy director who is at least going to try.
Not much more I can say, after Condoleeza Rice’s “birth pangs of a new Middle East” comment. It makes me wonder: what in the hell is the Administration up to? Makes me wonder whether Digby is on to something by linking that kind of language to apocalyptic Christian fundamentalism.
Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is Professor of International Studies in the School of International Service, and also Director of the AU Honors program. He was formerly Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Relations and Development, and is currently Series Editor of the University of Michigan Press' book series Configurations: Critical Studies of World Politics.
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