Condi’s “New Middle East”

By Patrick J. Buchanan
August 8th, 2006

“Things are as they are, and their consequences will be what they will be. Why then should we seek to be deceived?”

Columnist Stewart Alsop, dead now these 30 years, once closed a column with this quote from the philosopher Bishop Berkeley. His column, I believe, was about Vietnam.

As we approach the fifth anniversary of 9/11, we, too, can see the shape of things to come.

In the ideology of “democratic fundamentalism” to which George W. Bush converted after 9/11, we are simply in a rough patch on the glory road to a democratic Middle East and “the end of tyranny on this earth.”

In reality, our situation has never been more grim. (….Full Article)