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| Daily Star: We're gonna get it... |
| 2002-04-28 |
| From an unsigned editorial in the Beirut Daily Star: If his talks with US President George W. Bush were as unproductive as initial reports indicate, the Middle East may well be headed for the sort of conflagration that no reasonable person wants but which the likes of Osama bin Laden and Ariel Sharon have long craved... Seems like it's on the edge, doesn't it? And still they keep exploding and shooting people. Neat, the way they put Sharon in the same category as Binny... Abdullah has already told Bush what will happen if the United States of America cannot summon the wisdom and/or the courage to rein in the government of a tiny garrison state that depends on it for annual aid that amounts to more than $3 billion (i.e. $600 per capita). My guess is that what will happen is what's been happening: The Saudi Entity will use its money and its snuffies and proxies to undermine as much of the Infidel world as it can. It will piously deny any involvement. Charities will work to subvert the countries they're allowed to work in. It will push hard and harder for a war between the United States and someone else — though not Soddi Arabia. The Arab world is not populated by fools: The Soddis act on the assumption it is... If its inhabitants see an Israeli premier dismissing  with impunity  the purported warnings of its No. 1 financier and armorer, they cannot help but to conclude that the White House’s words are for public consumption and that it in fact fully supports actions like that undertaken in the Jenin refugee camp. Rather like what the Saudi Entity has been engaged in for the past thirty years, isn't is? Bush has been saying for months that "you’re either with us or you’re against us:" If he either fails or refuses to understand Abdullah’s very simple message, then Arabs have no choice in the matter because they will have already been placed in the latter category by American fiat. They've already made their choice, haven't they? We saw that September 11th, when the planes hit. We saw it September 12th, when there was dancing in the streets. And we see it today. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |