Rice literally described it as constructive chaos. I suppose she actually believes in a constructive purpose to this chaos that is our political turmoil :D gee that sures make up for all the killing, dunnit.
“[w]hat we’re seeing here [in regards to the destruction of Lebanon and the Israeli attacks on Lebanon], in a sense, is the growing—the ‘birth pangs’—of a ‘New Middle East’ and whatever we do we [meaning the United States] have to be certain that we’re pushing forward to the New Middle East [and] not going back to the old one.”