McCain Rattling Phantom Sabres, Joe Lieberman as Sancho Panza, Mideast Media Tour
Senator McCain, and occasionally Joe Lieberman his own Sancho Panza, has been rattling his sabres against the Russians over Georgia. Except there are no sabres to rattle. McCain's arsenal has been taken by Iraq and Afghanistan, and perhaps his own future war in Iran.
McCain plagiarized the French media after 9/11, when they said "Today we are all Americans". The unoriginal candidate said: "Today we are all Georgians." Funny, he does not sound like it. No draaaawl, y'all.
Sarkozy has come to the rescue, since Secretary of State Condi Rice would never be seen negotiating with either "terrorist" states or an "aggressor" state. That is why negotiations with Iran fell to the Europeans and negotiations with Russia (even with Putin's soul that can be seen in his eyes) fell to the French.
Bush administration officials, meanwhile continue to conserve their energies for negotiations and get-togethers with those paragons of virtue, freedom, democracy, justice, and the American way of life: for example Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Algeria etc. Oh, I forgot Libya and North Korea.
A high official of the Arab League just returned from Mauritania (a member country in northwest Africa that just had an elected president overthrown by the military). He said that there was no military coup in Mauritania, that democracy was not threatened and that things looked quite normal to him. De Nile is a river in northeast Africa.
Hardline Iranian parliamentarians are calling for the dismissal of a vice president of the country. The man, oddly close to president Ahmadinejad, has said that his country is not an enemy of "the American people or the Israeli people."
That means that the hardline Iranian parliamentarians do not recognize an "American" people or an "Israeli" people. Or both?
His masters' voice: "Revolutions, especially Eastern ones, never aimed at uprooting corruptions, as their leaders claimed in Russia(?), China, Iran, Iraq and other places. Their aim was to replace existing corruption with a reality that is even more corrupt. Opening the way for the creations of regimes that are totalitarian and oppressive in reality but Islamic or democratic in name." al-Ittihad, UAE columnist.
It is the current Arab dilemma of the choice between the fire or the frying pan. Or is it a matter of 'the devils you know'? Of course the Arabs have never had a revolution: they have had many coups, military coups and palace coups. At least the writer did not diss the French Revolution, but maybe because it was much longer ago, safely tucked away in the folds of history and far to the 'west'. Or maybe he is a Jacobin and a fan of Robespierre as well?
Cheers
mhg
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