Blog-less Middle East Leaders. Ahmadinejad the Pathfinder
What is in a blog:
It has been a while since I looked through Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s personal blog. So I spent a few minutes looking through it. I must say it is the most interesting among all the eladers that have blogs that I have seen (Libya’s Qaddafi does not have personal blog, and apparently nor does Bibi Netanyahu). I was interested manly in the responses that he posted, responses from others. Here are samples:
Australia: “Greetings Your Excellency I see that the American Military is playing the Lets Blame Iran game. Iran is apparently the reason why things are so bad in Iraq. Do the Americans think that we are all crazy and will believe their continuous lies. Will it ever end.”
Italy: “Dear and honorable president my lasts comments not was pubblied and i admire you why this? Are messages too much for show all? Long life to you and Iran and all country that no like death but life.”
France: “I see that you choose only what you like; this is very curios to see how much you love yourself and how much you think that people are stupid to believe that you never receive any critics.” Leave it to the French to start ruining the man's party.
USA: ”Youre one of the most stupid president ever ! Im sure about half of the comments posted of this blog are just totally fake and used as propaganda.”
USA: “I just discovered this. I would not like my political beliefs present here, but I think this forum, is a fabulous idea. What an excellent way to communicate with the masses, and have the masses express themselves here.”
Britain: “Why would anybody want to listen to you, you’re surpressive”
All these people had their emails attached, and this allayed any suspicions I might have had. I suspect that no other Middle Eastern leader would post some of the ‘critical’ comments he got, if they had blogs. Perhaps that is because no other Middle East leader faces the possibility of losing an election.
I still hope he loses the election next June, if it would make any difference. But I might miss his blog. The oligrchs of the neo-Middle East are too frigging uptight to have a blog, and if they did, they would be even more f@#$%!rigging uptight to post critical comments.
King Abdullah (de Jourdanie) is the most with-it among neo-Arab leaders, which probably is not saying much. He posts comments on others’ blogs (I doubt he will do so on mine: I am not a voter in Jordan). He has posted something about freedom of expression “…People must not be afraid to express their opinions without using aliases…", his majesty opined. I wonder if His Majesty’s Secret Services know all that.
I looked for blogs and postings, even tweets by Kind Abdullah al-Saud, Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Qaddafi of Libya, Ali Kkamenai of Iran, among others I shan’t mention here. No cigar
Cheers
mhg
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