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Thursday, March 24, 2005
US Imperial Proconsul and Triumphalism
Condoleezza Rice has been touring the world not as US secretary of state but as the proconsul of the new US empire. Hers has been a tour of US triumphalism. When she was not being a clotheshorese, she engaged in scolding, condescending, accusing, denouncing, and saber rattling.
Are we tired of her yet?
Condoleezza Rice has been touring the world not as US secretary of state but as the proconsul of the new US empire. Hers has been a tour of US triumphalism. When she was not being a clotheshorese, she engaged in scolding, condescending, accusing, denouncing, and saber rattling.
Are we tired of her yet?