This morning on This Week with George Stephanopoulos (ABC), Condoleezza Rice, interviewed on the violence in the Middle East:

Rice, awkwardly trying to justify the administration's non-support of a cease-fire, stays with the Bush-Cheney fantasy line that "extremists" facing "a new Middle East" are the cause and source of the violence. (No mention of repressive regimes or the mistreatment of Palestine.)

Her reasoning is the neocon argument that past peace-keeping efforts in the past didn't "work" --i.e. since no peace lasted forever, lives saved or quality of life improved in the interim don't matter a whiff.

No time for obvious fallacies right now; this ...   more »