Condoleeza Rice: No To Multipolar World

07/02/2003 10:52

US National Security Advisor invents theory and then attacks it  

It would appear that members of the Bush administration have an 
internal competition to see which one can come up with the most 
absurd statement, like an Ionescu play gone wrong. In recent months, 
Rumsfeld has added his nonsense to Bush's clunkers but Rice could 
well be the dark horse in the howler race.  

"Multipolarity is a theory of rivalry, of competing interests and at 
its very worst, of competing values" stated Condoleeza Rice recently 
at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Why 
is it that the members of the Bush adminstration, in their entirety, 
are utterly incapable of engaging in dialogue or of handling difference 
of opinion? Why does multipolarity have to involve competing interests?  

The fundamental principles of democracy, which the USA expounded 
ad nauseam during the time of the Cold War, are debate, discussion 
and dialogue, backed up by diplomacy. The fundamental principles 
of democracy include the freedom to state and defend a position and 
then discuss any difference in an open and civilized forum of debate.  

To state that multipolarity is rivalry, is to say that "if you're not 
with us, you're against us". To state that multipolarity can lead to 
competing values and then describe these as a threat, is an admission 
by Ms. Rice that she is incapable of comprehending alternative schools 
of opinion, alternative lines of thought, alternative ways of being. 
If she considers difference as being a threat then maybe she should take 
the history book off the shelf and leaf through the pages until she comes 
to Hitler and Himmler. This would show her where her intolerance can lead. 

Having jumped to the conclusion that multipolarity is rivalry, the 
National Security Advisor goes on to attack the notion, stating that 
"The rivalry theory represents a danger to the solution of serious 
problems".  

In a nutshell, Condoleeza Rice is a product of the school which 
churned out specimens such as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Perle, 
Wolfowitz, Fleischer, bible-bashing at its worst, spiked by a 
lethal dose of venom by the Jewish lobby, as unbalanced a collection 
of individuals as has been gathered in any government anywhere on 
earth at any time in history.  

Differences of opinion, like differences of race, color or creed, are 
never evil but rather widen the base for a positive mutual exchange of 
values and a process of cultural enrichment. The fact that Condoleeza 
Rice perceives such as something negative, dangerous, a threat, speaks 
volumes about the capacity of this woman to be in such a position.  

It is not a question of being too stupid to hold the post. It is a 
question of being stupid enough to merge so perfectly into the background 
of the Bush people.  

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

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Source: Pravda - http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/98/387/10381_Rice.html


Cheers, Steve..

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