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JOINT CHIEFS QUESTION IRAQ TROOP "SURGE"
Actually a yakfest such as the International Crisis Group suggests might do some good, although the Arab/Israel genuflection is simply for PC posturing. And that way Iran and Syria can demonstrate how useless they are in a General Conference and a lot of other dead leaves may blow off the trees.
I wish Ali Hakim and SCIRI God's blessings because the Sadr wing of the coalition is a blocking veto on anything approaching a national solution.
Comment Posted By daveinboca On 19.12.2006 @ 16:23
THE LEBANESE PEOPLE VS. HIZBULLAH: ROUND 1 LOOMS
The Wall Street Journal scorches Baker in the link above, though in tones that display residual respect.
There are only a few blogs which take the Al-Jazeera line on this, and that flawed cable network has a lot of Michel Aoun supporters [pro-Syrian Christians like the Prez Emile Lahoud] avowing that Syria would never do such a thing because it would be too stupid. But stupid is Bashar Assad's favorite playbook. Still, contrarians bleat it's not fair to point fingers at Damascus.
From my years living in Beirut and elsewhere in the Arab world, I'll take the flawed western press version over the ridiculous largely pro-Syrian Arab media nine times out of ten. [BTW, I once dated a Lebanese woman who told me that assassinated ex-Prez-elect Basheer Gemayel had asked her to marry him, she turned him down because the Gemayels were in her words "beneath her socially...."] Lebanon is a revolving door of conspiracies. I can remember that in 1977 the assassins of Druze-chief Walid Jumblatt's father drove away from the scene in a car with Iraqi license plates! Of course, it turned out to be Syria behind the murder, but anything to throw us off the scent!
Comment Posted By daveinboca On 22.11.2006 @ 16:05
A reader of my blog sent me an email asking "cui bono" as to why the Syrians were involved. My response:
The Syrians have a very long record of interfering in Lebanon's economy and
political affairs, and it is in their PERCEIVED interest [however poorly
conceived] to stir the pot in that country, which they regard as irredentist
territory, because of several reasons.It takes the Syrian people's mind off their own imbecilic government, it is an
attempt to try to keep the Lebanese cabinet from participating in the UN
Investigative Inquiry, an attempt to push the Hezbollah agenda in order to get
Iranian support, and because various factions supporting Assad in Lebanon,
including its demented Prez Emile L, actually want Syria back in control of
Lebanon, or at least an active player. Last, but not least, the Syrians made a
lot of money by interfering in Lebanon before, and think they can do it again.Therefore, a very deluded Syrian leadership probably thinks it is its own good,
Comment Posted By daveinboca On 22.11.2006 @ 12:06
and because it believes it can get away with it. Think of it as a mafia
syndicate, with Bashar Assad as the capo di totti capiti. Don't necessarily
regard the present Syrian leadership as rational actors. As an FT columnist
said prophetically two years ago, this younger Assad tends to overplay his
hands.
IRONY SO THICK YOU CAN BATHE IN IT
[url=http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/11/nyt-saddam-was-year-away-from-building.html]The New York Times[/url] has become so dumbed-down that the venerable tabloid of fools tries an October/November surprise that backfires stupendously.
[url=http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/11/nyt-saddam-was-year-away-from-building.html]Gateway Pundit[/url] has a whole cartload of documents from the hoard which the NYT has selectively plucked a few anti-Bush leaflets, and demonstrated that the whole MSM agitprop campaign about Saddam having nothing to do with Al Qaeda is a raft of lies. And how does that true patriot elder statesman Wilson feel about his pronunciamento on the NYT Op-Ed page?
Indeed, things are going badly in Iraq, but the overall MSM take on Iraq is also a tendentious factitious pile of balderdash---one-sided and dishonest to its core.
The appeaser Dems are about ready to hijack the USS Free World and turn it into a multi-culti globalist welcome-wagon for terrorists.
Maybe there's still time for turning the big ship around, but I doubt it.
Comment Posted By daveinboca On 3.11.2006 @ 22:19
