Condi Rice is baffled by the victory of Hamas in the recent Palestinian elections:
“I’ve asked why nobody saw [Hamas’ election victory] coming. It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse… I don’t know anyone who wasn’t caught off guard by Hamas’ strong showing.”
Is it really true that the Secretary of State of the world’s most powerful country didn’t have a clue, when a lowly scribbler at the Antiwar.com website saw it coming last summer?:
“What do you do, however, when ‘terrorists’ start winning elections? This is a question American policymakers must confront now that Hezbollah has swept the polls in southern Lebanon. Hamas threatens to overtake the Palestinian establishment at the ballot box; Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has had to postpone the Palestinian elections because of this very real possibility.”
— Justin Raimondo, “The Democratic Delusion,” Antiwar.com, June 10, 2005
Gee, I’d be glad to do free-lance work for the State Department — heck, I can always use extra cash — but, so far, nobody’s called …