"Standing up for liberty...We can be confident of our success because the fair wind of freedom is at our back. Freedom is spreading: From the villages of Afghanistan to the squares in Ukraine, from the streets in the Palestinian territories to the streets of Georgia, to the polling stations of Iraq."
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None of these predictions came true. These beliefs were delusions. Yet Condoleezza Rice believed her fantasies. This was not "propaganda."

The beliefs expressed above were based on massive ignorance regarding the cultures of the nations that she was dealing with. Hundreds of thousands of human beings died (and are still dying) as the result of the activation of these fantasies, which were shared by George Bush.

The ending or conclusion is contained within the beginning. What is occurring now was set in motion "all those years ago."

In politics, delusion is the coin of the realm. Yet there are no consequences for embracing and promoting delusions. 

The results of the delusions of Rice and Bush and the others are coming to fruition at this very moment. The ending is contained in the beginning.

Political policy is the result of fantasies projected and enacted in reality.

Richard Koenigsberg