So - Iran's political process is headed in the wrong direction?? - but Rice surely won't be saying anything anymore because the Middle East will be allowed to develop democracies in their own WAY...
So - Iran's political process is headed in the wrong direction - Iran supposedly has a leader who handpicks those Men who can run for President and those who can't? That was Rice's description on Friday - the day of the Iranian Presidential Election. Today, Monday June 20, she's in Egypt and apparently a whole new trend has been spelled out for the policy of the Bush Administration. No more alliances with dictators - democracy will now truly be sponsored in the Middle East! Rice apparently said, and I thought personally it was brilliant (if true) - "America will not impose our style of government on the unwilling. Our goal instead is to help others find their own voice, to attain their own freedom, make their own way." The reasons behind this kind of statement now are obvious - it's not the dramatic change in policy that BBC Security Correspondent Frank Gardner predicted. It is after all, only necessary rhetoric to deflect the criticism throughout all of the world that the U.S. maintains its strong relations with Saudi Arabia despite its calls for greater democracy in the ME. So, if the United States is not imposing its own style of democracy on the Middle East - How could Rice be so definitive about Iran being headed in the wrong direction? At least in Iran, the people have a growing democratic spirit and the strength to NOW challenge the possible fraud in their elections. What did we Americans do with electoral fraud? Iran has already "made its own way" - it's a democracy-in-progress. Let's give them some credit.