EARLY IN JUNE 2006, militias belonging to the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) took over Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. The city’s fall was a blow to Washington. The Bush Administration had thrown its support behind a group of warlords,…
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The Democracy Scam
ON her recent visit to the Middle East, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice did not pass Egypt by. At the American University in Cairo on June 20, 2005, she talked about America’s struggle for democracy in the region. She…