CNN reports that Condi is at it again:
“We are supporting the democratic aspirations of all people,” Rice said. “As President Bush said in his second inaugural address: ‘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 people of Egypt should be at the forefront of this great journey, just as you have led this region through the great journeys of the past,” she said.
Wouldn’t that be wonderful? I can, in my mind’s eye, imagine Egypt as a shining example of human rights, free speech, vibrant economic activity and innovation…
Yes! I can picture it. So can Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit:
“Who would object to fair, transparent elections?” said Gheit. “Everyone wants free and transparent elections — and it will be so, I assure you.”
Indeed. I am convinced it shall be so. Rice tells us what’s at stake. Per usual, her words carry an unintended truthfulness:
… it is going to be essential that those elections be free and fair, that there be an opportunity for the opposition to have access to media, that there is a sense of competitiveness in the elections.”
Yes, it is essential that there be a ‘sense’ of legitimacy in all our celebrated elections.
