Al-Ahram Nails The Arab Leaders Cold ...

In an editorial from the Egyptian weekly Al-Ahram, the self-serving nature of the world's Middle Eastern Arab leaders are exposed.

Once again, with many more pressing problems, the leaders of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Co. are trying to save face in the Arab word (and their own skins) by massively refocusing all efforts on "The Peace Process." Nothing new here but it's just another chance to note how the Arab leaders have manipulated the Israeli/Palestinian crisis for their own gain for the past fifty years and will continue to do so however it serves their own best interests.

What a pathetic group of losers. Their greed and self-serving mismanagement of wealth and resources is the reason for the worldwide Islamic threat we all face. If they shared the wealth, focused on the present and offered their people hope these same killers we see todaywould be spending their weekends at their local mall buying mocca frapachinos and Gap jeans instead of blowing people up.


Taking the initiative

In Riyadh for the Arab summit, Dina Ezzat finds Arab delegates all but obsessed with one issue: the Arab peace initiative

This week in the Saudi capital for the annual Arab summit -- and indeed in the lead-up to the Riyadh meetings -- the Arab peace initiative was the uncontested focus of attention. This despite crucial political and security challenges facing the Arab world in Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia and Darfur, fears of a US strike against Iran, alienation of most Arab Maghreb countries from the rest of the Arab world, and many miscellaneous inter-Arab differences.

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/838/fr2.htm

Letter from the Editor ...

I've been off for a while. The overall horrific, partisan news coverage here in the United States was beginning to nauseate me and I realized I needed a time out. You can really O.D. on it. So I took a few weeks to zero in on other business. Today , I am still disgusted but feel compelled to check in with new thoughts generated by a bit of fresh perspective.

Here we go:

1. No one here really knows what is going on inside Iran's dictatorship. However, common sense dictates that they cannot be happy about worldwide sanctions, terrible publicity and multiple U.S. aircraft carriers on their door steps. Iran obviously knows from a military standpoint the U.S. can have them for lunch. This is despite all the left wing media claims of Iran becoming a new force to be reckoned with in the Middle East. Compared to whom, the Emirate States? Realizing this, their only hope is to manipulate the anti-U.S. media and hope they continue to help push their agenda. Maybe Pelosi visits the mullahs next.

2. Europe is being extremely embarrassed by their own impotence. It is clear that the E.U. can basically do nothing to Iran and are completely relying on the U.S. for protection while they continue to slam them, just in case ...

3. The U.S. Congress and the Left are at war with President Bush. They are doing everything within their power to insure the balance of his presidency will fail. It is all political and all based on the 08 election. They will stop at nothing to try and embarrass him and render him impotent to the world. They will sacrifice the war for that purpose. And it is all going to backfire on them for several reasons.

Their actions are transparent and self-servings. They are also cowardly and hypothetical. Instead of standing their ground and trying to push for immediate withdrawal, they are hedging, showing this is political and not ideological. If they had the guts to stand their ground, even thought I disagree with them, I would respect them. However, they remain purely politically motivated and it is disgusting.

Bush will veto their proposal, despite the constant media bombardment the war is going much better and this will blow up in Democratic faces. Bush will rise like a Phoenix.

4. The left is scared to death of Giuliani. Just wait until he gets out there and represents himself on the circuit. A far better speaker than Bush, a real McCoy, he will expose them as the partisan clowns they are. They are in trouble with Ruby.

5. Man isn't it fun to see Gingrich slap Colmes all over his own program each weak. When Colmes tries his childish nonsense, Newt destroys him with facts and Colmes is exposed like all liberals, living in a vacuum.

6. There may be no bigger as-hole in the history of broadcast television than Keith Olbermann.

Talk about an insecure, smug, transparent, mean spirited fool. He spends 75% of every one of his MSNBC broadcasts (always in last place) ripping the Bush administration.

It is so tasteless. His motives so obvious it's pathetic. He and his sidekick Richard Wolff ( a dead ringer for Kazu from The Flintstones) of super far left Newsday magazine are so envious of Bill O'Reily and Fox news that they somehow manage to incorporate them into almost every broadcast. Olbermann clearly has O'Reily envy. To his credit O'Reily, tremendously ahead in the head to head ratings, never even acknowledges Olbermann's existence, something that must drive this Classic Sport's dropout crazy. The funniest thing I hear so far this year was Olbermann criticizing Fox of biased broadcasting. Is it any wonder why he is always dead last in the ratings?

MORE TO COME ...

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NY Post Slaps Pelosi as Transparent Fool

Isn't it nice that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi takes it upon herself to take a Middle East tour that will include a visit with Syrian leader Bashar Assad? This is despite the fact that the White House has strongly stressed their displeasure over this matter. Despite the fact that Syria is responsible for the deaths of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.

What is Perlosi's objective in such a defiant gesture? She obviously realizes that the photo op will be broadcast world, especially in the Arab world as a gesture of undercutting the president. It shows how politically naive she is. This will ultimately blow up huge in both her and the democratic parties face.

I can't wait.

MISS SYRIA
WHITE HOUSE SLAMS PELOSI TERROR TRIP
By IAN BISHOP, The New York Post

March 31, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - The White House yesterday sharply condemned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for making a date with a terrorist - blasting her trip to Syria and possible "tea" with its dictator, Bashar Assad, calling it a "really bad idea."

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03312007/news/nationalnews/miss_syria_nationalnews_ian_bishop.htm

Washington Post's Krauthammer: Dem's getting it wrong again

Charles Krauthammer spells out the clear, obvious loop holes and flat out inexperience in the Democratic strategies for the Middle East.

Afghanistan Isn't a Reason
Bad Democratic reasoning.
By Charles Krauthammer, The Washington Post

Our bill calls for the redeployment of U.S. troops out of Iraq so that we can focus more fully on the real war on terror, which is in Afghanistan.
— Speaker Nancy Pelosi, March 8

The Senate and the House have both passed bills for ending the Iraq war, or at least liquidating the American involvement in it. The resolutions, approved by the barest majorities, were underpinned by one unmistakable theme: wrong war, wrong place, distracting us from the real war that is elsewhere.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NzRlYzU4NGZmNTk0MmJmMGEyZjI1ZjgwNWRjZjRkZmM=

Monsters by 449 Quentin

Monsters
By 449 Quentin , 3/30/07

After work on Friday March 9, 2007 I sat in my car enjoying a chicken roll and a slice of pizza while I checked out the movie reviews for the weekend. I selected a Korean import called “The Host” . The film got excellent reviews as compared to the awful stuff Hollywood has been churning out, so I went to see it.

The reviews did not lie. The film was well made and a thoroughly enjoyable experience. Unfortunately along with the great flick I had to endure a cultural brainwashing from the Liberal thought police.

The story is a Korean version of the monster that ate Tokyo. Our boy is no Godzilla just a bus size Guppy with legs and a garbage disposal type mouth. His little legs propel him right out of the water so that he can run you down. Guppy boy is fantastic but its the people in the movie that get to your heart. They are an everyman kind of family that runs a snack stand down by the river the Mega guppy with Nikes lives in. All five of them have terrific character development. We get a cute but heroic schoolgirl, Her dimwitted but honorable dad, an aunt and uncle out of real life as apposed to central casting. This is topped off by a grandpa who stoically does the right thing regardless of the odds.

It’s the politics behind the film that are really monstrous. You see Mega Guppy got to grow as big and ornery as he did because a United States Military scientist ordered a sweet as pie Korean scientist to empty a couple of thousand bottles of lethal chemicals into a sink. Why? Well because the bottles were dusty and the Dick Chaney look alike American has a thing about dusty bottles along with other Hitler style traits. Of course the drain leads to the river and well you get it.

Here is where the left shines. Bong Joon-ho the Korean who wrote and directed the film is in sync with John Anderson who wrote the review that I read in Long Island Newsday. Newsday is not in a perfect position to pontificate on good and evil because they were involved recently in faking their circulation which is a big no, no in media land. Mr. Johnson calls the flick a socio-political critique that shines a light on U.S. intervention/neglect in Korean affairs. Uncle Sam is the villain of choice in liberal circles.

Although to my dim witted Right Wing way of thought perhaps the Director and the Movie Critic should look a bit further north along the Korean peninsula if they want to embellish fiction with fact. Perhaps they should check out one Kim Jong il Il who has all the attributes of a real villain. As opposed to the United States which brought wealth and freedom to the south with a generous payment of American blood. Kim has brought the north, famine, ignorance and poverty on a world class scale. He also dabbles in counter fitting dollars, selling drugs and spreading weapons to the highest bidder. But don’t take my word for it, hang out at the borders and check who is sneaking in or out of which country.

The south is churning out television sets, cars and ships while the north is sifting through garbage dumps looking for a snack. But then isn’t that the way Liberals all over the world see reality. According to them the axis of evil consist of George Bush, Dick Cheney and the Republican party. The Liberal media has just about destroyed all three.

Even in the world of fiction and film the Americans are the evil hand behind the horrors that confront the world. One would think that as the Lib’s take over the world that perhaps they should ponder this. After the last spade full of earth is tossed on the coffin containing Bush, Chaney and the Republican party, the Lib’s will have inherited the earth. They will have to deal with what they have been denying while they vented their spleen on George W and company. They will have to confront the people who blow up trains, planes and buses. They will have to deal with Radical Islam. It will be their problem to see that everybody has a full tank of gas in their car and a nice warm house to read The New York Times in. Darfur will still be there and the Mexican border will still have a welcome sign hanging over a hole in the barb wire . The electorate in the heart land will look at them if Cleveland goes up in a puff of smoke. They will get the phone call in the middle of the night if everybody in Dallas gets a real strange and real lethal rash.

The world will still be there even though George W is gone and it ain’t going to be a pretty place. Then it will all be up to Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi and they will wish that all they had to worry about would be a guppy on steroids with a nasty attitude.

National Review's Victor Davis Hanson on a Clearly Weak Europe

Professor Hanson spells out Europe's self-created impotency now that the Iranians are rubbing it in their faces.

March 30, 2007

Houses of Straw
The EU’s delusions about the sufficiency of “soft” power are embarrassingly revealed.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online

It’s completely outrageous for any nation to go out and arrest the servicemen of another nation in waters that don’t belong to them.” So spoke Admiral Sir Alan West, former First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy, concerning the present Anglo-Iranian crisis over captured British soldiers. But if the attack was “outrageous,” it was apparently not quite outrageous enough for anything to have been done about it yet.

http://victorhanson.com/

Iran's Nuclear Motives

Nuclear Motives
Understanding why Iran took British hostages.
By Mario Loyola

There’s no denying it. Iran’s capture of 15 British hostages was a stroke of cunning — and a brilliant one at that. The mullahs were in a pickle. They had decided to do two things which were going to push Washington closer to military action. They needed a diversion or a smokescreen some way to make the Bush administration blink. And so far, it has worked.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWI3NDc1MGI3YjYyYzllODZiNzUwZGZiNmNiNDJhNDQ=