First there was the real Western Frontier that shaped America.
Then there was the New Deal of FDR.
Then the Greatest Generation that helped save the world.
Then there was the New Frontier of JFK which ushered the graceful but brief era of Camelot.
Then the Great Society derailed by Vietnam and IndoChina….
Then the heroic era of NASA and space exploration culminating in the Apollo projects and what came later spanned a couple of generations.
Now we are on the eve of the Fourth of July 2018. Deep in the opportunistic age of MAGA which has ushered in the silly but very accurately expressive era of “I Really Don’t Care Do U“.
And That’s Not All, Folks……
Cheers
Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
Where are the Saudi women?
Here are First Lady Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump in the middle of hundreds, nay thousands, of Muslim Arab men, mostly Wahhabis. And not a single other Saudi woman. Not at the airport, not anywhere else within sight. You’d think it is a huge stag party and the two American women are the exotic performers.
One rare independent Arab media that is not Saudi-controlled headlined, no doubt jokingly from the safety of London: Ivanka praises Saudi progress in Women Rights. But nary a Saudi woman anywhere around.
Which reminds me of a shocking fact of the Riyadh Summit ignored by Western, especially American, media. Where are the Saudi women? There has been not a single Saudi woman during the whole process. None of the King’s or the princes’ wives showed up at the airport to greet Melania and Ivanka. None was present at the meetings, nor at the so-called Arab-Islamic-American summit.
What happened? Did the Saudis hide and lock up all their women in the cellars? Or did they have them all chained and handcuffed to their respective beds?
Cheers
Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
Multidisciplinary: Middle East, North Africa, Gulf, GCC, World, Cosmos…..
