Condi's Evil Ones

"At her confirmation hearings last week, Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice offered a little more information, naming six countries as "outposts of tyranny" that would get special attention from the U.S. in the next four years: Cuba, Myanmar, North Korea, Iran, Belarus and Zimbabwe. But how was this unsavory sextet chosen — with a dartboard? She could just as easily have snapped off the names of six of our allies — Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Russia, Kuwait, Uzbekistan and Egypt — equally undemocratic, but which have arguably done more to increase the threat of global terrorism than Rice's squad of baddies."

-Robert Scheer, in his article in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 25, 2005