Rice's empire

"For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region here in the Middle East -- and we achieved neither. Now, we are taking a different course."
--Condoleezza Rice. Cairo, Egypt. June 20, 2005

A post that basically writes itself: for the next 60 years we'll try democracy at the expense of stability, and...

"by the sixty-forth day, the emperor owed him 10,000,000,000,000,000,000 grains of rice."
--Fable of the inventor of chess

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(as to my previous post: there's actually quite a bit of potentially exciting stuff happening in the administration's "Methane and Markets" proposal and the G8 meeting. Then there's the Piltz memo. I don't know how to get those two into posts right now, so stay tuned)