America's New Enemy: Europe
Where once Washington scolded its foes, now it despises its erstwhile friends
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Twenty years ago Condoleezza Rice, then serving at the United States’ Secretary of State, delivered a notable speech at the American University in Cairo. For too long, for 60 years in fact, Rice said, her country had “pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region here in the Middle East -- and we achieved neither.” The accumulated weight of those failures could no longer be supported or tolerated. A new era was dawning; a new direction was essential. “Now, we are taking a different course” she declared. “We are supporting the democratic aspirations of all people.”
These were heady times. “The day is coming when the promise of a fully free and democratic world, once thought impossible, will also seem inevitable” Ric…