Jealousy

"Jealousy - such an evil thang" are lyrics breathed rather than sung (ala Jessica Simpson) on a track on Paris Hilton's CD. It also provides a wickedly clever sound track to the current, weirdly comical death throes of the know it all club of Realism.

"Realpolitik" is a hold over from an old school era. Instantly Americanized by The Great Satan into 'Realism', America didn't care how unfree, how uncool, how total despotism was in nations - as long as they kept out the Commies and Mohammedist fundies they could treat their own people as they wished. Protection gauranteed. Good times.

Ah, the avatar realists - hallowed names in American statecraft like Baker, Scowcroft, Talbot and Kissinger. Alas many of their ilk cannot come to terms with fact that 911 incinerated their ideas and policies just as surely as the nearly 3K innocents who showed up for work that day.

Dr.Fred Kaplan's bizarro "Condi is a Retard' 2 page rant in the Washington Post. Cats who spent their entire adult lives explaining, expounding and exploiting their amoral Cult of Stability are NOT going down without a fight.

"Long after her celebrity and charm have been forgotten, her epitaph will endure:
She pursued democracy at the expense of stability, and achieved neither."

"Jealousy such a wicked thang" blinds one to their own failures. Like pursuing stability. In the real world (no pun intended) this thug hugging theory brought no stability, no peace and no democracy. Kaplan and Co have left a mess that has spawned instability, terrorism, oil embargoes, genocide and several wars. The Great Satan has had to take out the trash for a world that bought all their outdated ideas.

"Rice remains one of the architects of a fantasy foreign policy."

Now this is particularly RICH ya'll - keep in mind Dr. Kaplan's main claim to fame is the unhappy fact he was the mentor for Ex Def Sec Les Aspin. The cat who was sacked for stopping the armored sons of the Great Satan from following their spiritual paw paws like Generals Sherman and Patton and totally annihilating our enemies in the 'Black Hawk Down' episode.

A case could be made that Dr. Kaplan is THE 'spiritual enboldener' of Al Qaeda's 'Strong horse - weak horse' theory.

"Democracy, it turned out, was no cure-all. Democratic governments thrive or crumble on whether they can mediate conflicting claims without much violence. Had Rice only understood this."

Au contraire mon frere! Dr Rice realizes (again no pun intended) what enables free governments to thrive. Her presentation of The Great Satan's "Nonnegotiable Demands of Human Dignity" made it very clear that

"...the rule of law, limits on state power, free speech, religious liberty,
equal justice, property rights, tolerance of difference and respect for
women..."

are the model for success.

Dr Kaplan seems distressed and slightly unhinged as he dings Dr Rice for the July August War of 2006 and disses her for telling Egypt's President for Life

"For 60 years the United States has pursued stability at the expense of
democracy in this region and we achieved neither. Now we are taking a different
course."

Dr Kaplan is jealous and downright dissed that Americans haven't chucked her ideas and dialed up 1988 on the Way Back Machine.

"Rice isn't used to failure, and most Americans aren't used to thinking of her as
one."

True enough. Dr Rice and most Americans ARE thinking of 13 years long 'No Fly zones', 'stability', and 'UN Resolutions' as failures that only the Great Satan unbound can rectify.

Another unimportant irony is that Dr. Kaplan has well established bona fides. If only they were matched by common sense.

"Jealousy - such a stupid thang"