SECRETARY OF State Condoleezza Rice's tour through the Middle East this week has been designed to exploit the "opportunities" of what she views as a new divide in the region, "between extremism on the one hand and mainstream states on the other." On one side, she told The Post recently, "you have Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and Syria. . . . On the other you have the so-called moderate Arab states, I'll call them mainstream states -- Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and the Gulf states."...
Lost in the Middle East
SECRETARY OF State Condoleezza Rice's tour through the Middle East this week has been designed to exploit the "opportunities" of what she views as a new divide in the region, "between extremism on the one hand and mainstream states on the other." On one side, she told The Post recently, "you have Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and Syria. . . . On the other you have the so-called moderate Arab states, I'll call them mainstream states -- Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and the Gulf states."...