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| Steyn: The eye doctor never saw it coming |
| 2005-03-08 |
| I don't suppose Bashar al-Assad has much in common with Eric Clapton - though, come to think of it, "Layla" is a Lebanese name, and there must be a few of them among the smouldering, raven-tressed, black-eyed Beirut babes so fetchingly demanding their nation's freedom on the covers of this week's Economist, Newsweek, Weekly Standard et al. At any rate, Boy Assad has no desire to find himself wailing, "Layla, you got me on my knees." Nor has he any wish to sing I Shot The Sharif - that would be Khalil Mustafa bin Muhammad Sharif, a prominent Syrian Kurd who got questioned to death in Damascus last year. In any case, the Syrian government's official position remains that, whether or not they shot the Sharif, they did not shoot the Lebanese parliamentary deputy. Nevertheless, young Bashar must be feeling a bit like old Clapper in his now celebrated encounter with the Queen. You're a big-time dictator, everybody knows that. Yet George W Bush seems to have no idea what an A-list mega-legend you are. |
| Posted by:.com |
| #4 They call him "Mr Dithers" He voted for missile defence before he voted against it. Nice to keep that rational south of the fence, hehe! |
| Posted by: john 2005-03-08 1:46:32 PM |
| #3 GREAT FIND STEYN! Thanks for the heads up... "It’s clear if the Syrians are in Lebanon, it’s because peace has to be maintained." - Paul Martin. Hmmm. This is worse than I thought. Seems we ought to erect a 12 foot high electrified fence to the north to keep the mad cow disease out... It's obviously affected the highest levels of the government of Canada. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-03-08 11:33:47 AM |
| #2 all good, but from the size of the pro-syria hezballah demonstration in beirut today, Iran's stooges won't let this go without bloodshed - they have no other place to go - |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-03-08 9:59:56 AM |
| #1 Does a good job of capturing how the world has changed. Diplospeak is out and the truth is in. I look forward to hearing Condi say "We have heard reports of Assad's death. When I say its premature that applies to the reports and not the event." |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-03-08 6:14:45 AM |