Billmon has a fascinating little article up, quoting Ralph Peters, who we’ve discussed before.
No society that oppresses women, denies advancement on merit even to men, indulges in fantastic hypocrisy, wallows in corruption, undervalues secular learning, reduces its god to a nasty disciplinarian and comforts itself with conspiracy theories will ever compete with us.
No, no, no… Mr Peters is not writing about the US. He’s writing about Iraq.
Nor is he writing about the Texas GOP’s Party Platform, as Billmon is quick to tell us.
Quoting Peters further:
We did the right thing by deposing Saddam Hussein. The Arab Middle East needed one last chance. Iraq is it. If Iraqi democracy fails, there will be no hope, whatsoever, for the Arab world.
Somebody contact Mr Cheney and tell him Ralph Peters says there is no chance of successfully conquering Iran.
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Irony seems to be unwittingly alive and well in the babblings of that 'lying Republican toad'!
Lurch, hope Ernesto gave you a good miss! Stupid storm is messing up the whole long weekend up here.
Thanks, WK. As the saying goes it was all froth and no substance. But the media people have to sell soap powder, and make themselves important, so we get third rate melodrama all the time during the hurricane season. Still, it's always wise to tighten your belt one notch when you put on your suspenders.
But Iran is not part of the Arab world, is it? Lebanon and Syria are, but not Iran. Or am I missing something?
No, Graham, it's not part of the Arab world, but it is part of the Arab Middle East, or rather the OIL Middle East.
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