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Edited on Sun Jul-30-06 06:29 PM by SoCalDem
This morning as I flipped from BBC to MSRNC to CNN, one of them showed a "riot" in Gaza that was supposed to show arab solidarity and to protest the carnage of last night..
Hezbollah flags flew right alongside Hamas banners.. We already know that he has actually solidified the Taliban's re-control in Afghanistan (apparently we are even back to "working" with them )
Has there ever been a US president who so effectively united so many disparate people? he "sold" himself as a yoo-naht-er, and he was right.. (Much to our dismay) :(
The thing that never ceases to amaze me is that his bull-in-a-china-shop demeanor is actually praised by our own media. His sec of state is little more than a highly-paid clotheshorse with fancy shoes..and who likes to play the piano and ice skate. he sends HER into the fray, instead of doing it himself, or even pretending to care.
If he's not careful (or is it his ultimate plan) there will be an all out war against Israel.
Mubarek is not all that strong, and the public sentiment is not exactly what he's been pushing. (there have been several assassination attempts)..
The young King Abdullah, has a large population of palestinians (his wife is a palestinian) and the relative trannquillity of Jordan could be trumped by geography..
Iraq ?? we got nuthin'
Afghanistan? (even though it's more sourth asian, than middle east)..no help there..
Lebanon? They have nothing more to lose. They lost two decades of hard work rebuilding, and lost the infrastructure that creates "civilized" living. Thousands have lost family memnbers, homes, jobs, ..everything..
Our European allies?? Most of them are pretty pissed at how he totally ignored the carnage and how badly he bungled Iraq & Afghanistan.. Lots of european countries have large populations of arabic people, and those countries do NOT want a backlash ..
The UK? Bush let their "poodle" out of the yard..(and claimed him as his own)
Repressed/oppresed people DO rise up. To lots of them it's a choice between being blown up while they take shelter or try to sleep...or perhaps being killed in acts of resistance.. Either way they are dead, but resistance is attractive to the young men.. and there are a TON of those in the middle east.. angry, frustrated, and wifeless...a recipe for disaster..
Pressure Cooking , Middle Eastern Style, by George W. Bush
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