Rice is striving to ensure the spreading of American hegemony in the region and consolidate its alliance with countries concerned with the war on terror.
No one could have imagined, during the hundreds of years in which Americans profited by snatching Africans from their forests and mothers arms, that one day one of these Africans or their descendents would become president of this empire called America. But, as Captain Mimi al-Sherbini put it in his comedy: this is America, folks!
...the American government dared to nationalize some of those companies and banks. Were Marx, Lenin, and Mao Tse Tung resurrected today, they would celebrate the sweeping victory over brutal capitalism...
We have not been expecting Washington to adopt the Arab position overnight, but the context of the American president’s overtures in the region indicates a real change that is important to grasp and work to encourage and stimulate.
Obama’s administration wants to change the roots of American foreign and domestic policy, and I’ve felt a lot of indications that it will actually be possible.