Condi's reading list.(Condoleezza Rice)(Brief article)

CONDOLEEZZA RICE'S BOLD JUNE 21 PROCLAMATION that violence in Lebanon merely represented the "birth pangs of a new Middle East" was a minor diplomatic fiasco, prompting denunciations and outrage from around the Muslim world. But where did she come by the odd turn of phrase? Lefties may smell a hint of Karl Marx, who wrote in the preface to Das Kapital that "society ... can neither clear by bold leaps, nor remove by legal enactments, the obstacles offered by the successive phases of its normal development. But it can shorten and lessen the birth pangs." ...