Posted under Election 2012 & Interventionism & NeoCons
Last night, Condoleezza Rice popped up at the Republican Convention five minutes ahead of schedule to tell cheering delegates about her three favorites things: herself, war, and herself.
Yes, it was the same, tired, Neocon agitprop we’ve all heard a million times, but the Republicans ate it up, proving just how other-worldly these people really are.
What pumped the crowd so? The prospect of perpetual war for the cause of “liberation,” that’s what. And who better to slather a coat of Civil Rights gloss over a beligerent foreign policy than Condi Rice? That’s what she does best.
Condi successfully regurgitated the Neocon formula for snookering grass-roots conservatives to submit to big government: Convince the rubes they can have their chest-thumping patriotism as long as they acknowledge the primacy of leftist, big-government ideology.
First, you sell them your Twilght-Zone version of American history:
“The essence of America – that which really unites us — is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea — and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.”
Yes, forget ethnicity and race – after all, America is a propositional nation. Unfortunately, “real” Americans have to forcibly remind the backsliders. For example, as Condi reminded us, America endured “a Civil War – hundreds of thousands dead in a brutal conflict – but emerging a stronger union; a second founding – as impatient patriots fought to overcome the birth defect of slavery and the scourge of segregation.”
After that bloody “second founding,” Americans finally understood their unique mission: To roam the globe and reconstruct it. As Condi reminded the delegates, “And we have seen once again that the desire for freedom is universal – as men and women in the Middle East demand it.”
Yeah, those Muslims want us to invade their countries. And if you believe that, you’ll believe anything.
But what’s a Condi speech without a celebration of Condi? She did not disappoint:
“And on a personal note– a little girl grows up in Jim Crow Birmingham – the most segregated big city in America – her parents can’t take her to a movie theater or a restaurant – but they make her believe that even though she can’t have a hamburger at the Woolworth’s lunch counter – she can be President of the United States and she becomes the Secretary of State.”
Yes, only in America can a well-to-do black family raise a daughter who can go on to become a war criminal.
roho on 31 Aug 2012 at 12:05 pm #
Amen to Condi Criminal Rice.
Dave K on 31 Aug 2012 at 8:14 pm #
Just a question for the peace through strength people. When do we get the “peace” part? I’ve been wait all my life for it and it hasn’t happened.
RonL on 07 Sep 2012 at 4:38 pm #
I’ll give her credit, shes a true believer. She won’t let evidence interfere.