The Party of Cut and Run

Not sure what this means, but it looks like Michael Rubin on the National Review 'Corner' has caught the party in power in full retreat on the question of Middle-Eastern democracy. It's sad because I never liked George Bush better than when he made his speech denouncing 60 years of truckling to dictators in the Middle East as a failed policy that had NOT given us security.

Here's the core of Rubin's post:

I just read the transcript of Condoleezza Rice’s remarks in Cairo. She didn’t mention Ayman Nour once. After he lost his unprecedented election challenge to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian regime arrested him. Arsonists burned down his party’s headquarters. He remains in prison. She didn’t mention the cancellation of municipal elections. Rice says, “Democracy is not something that … is for America to impose abroad. And certainly democracy will look — will take on different cultural tones, different forms, in every single country on earth.”

So why are we fighting in Iraq again? I keep forgetting the latest version.