Condaleeza SO not a feminist!

She sucks. Rice just got back from the Middle East failing to comment on one of the most volatile and important issues facing the newly developing democracies of the Arab nations–the role of women.
Times online UK reports…
Her admission that there were “boundaries” to the US drive for democratic reform in the region — notably in Saudi Arabia, where she declined to take up the cause of women, who are barred from driving cars — spurred accusations of American hypocrisy.
Because it is hypocritical. But I guess this is how we see democracy develop. By putting the needs of women to the side.
But chatting to reporters as she flew from Riyadh to Brussels, Rice was asked why she had “very pointedly” declined to take a public position on the issue of Saudi women.
“It’s just a line I’ve not wanted to cross,” she replied. “The United States has to recognise that even after democratic processes have taken place, places are not going to look like the United States . . . I think it’s important that we do have some boundaries about what we’re trying to achieve.”
Middle Eastern feminists are outraged.
Her response fuelled complaints by human rights activists such as Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian feminist who won the 2003 Nobel Peace prize. Earlier this year Ebadi accused the administration of “hypocrisy” in its attitude to unfriendly nations such as Iran.
“Given the longstanding willingness of the American government to overlook abuses of human rights, particularly women’s rights, by close allies in the Middle East such as Saudi Arabia, it is hard not to see the Bush administration’s focus on human rights violations in Iran as a cloak for its larger strategic interests,” Ebadi said.
I don’t wanna say I told you so, to those of you that have been on my ass for the US foreign policy as being feminist and how much those Arabs have to learn about feminism from us. But wake up, it isn’t and it never was. Our motivation for democracy in the Middle East is NOT for the emancipation of women.
One step forward, four steps back.