tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19184418.post115343352607311347..comments2024-03-09T22:15:04.984-08:00Comments on Global Paradigms: I told you soLeon Hadarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07074306142674999554noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19184418.post-1153535941458687812006-07-21T19:39:00.000-07:002006-07-21T19:39:00.000-07:00Like the Marxists from the 1930's these guys can j...Like the Marxists from the 1930's these guys can justify anything (remember how the Hitler-Stalin pact was hailed as a marvelous act of standing-up to imperialism, etc. Yeah, and I thought the Saudi and the Egyptian regimes had to be forced to change, etc.Leon Hadarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07074306142674999554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19184418.post-1153530256915789112006-07-21T18:04:00.000-07:002006-07-21T18:04:00.000-07:00That's why Rumsfeld got along so famously with Sad...That's why Rumsfeld got along so famously with Saddam back in the 1980s.<BR/><BR/>Tonight on the NewsHour, David Brooks was once again speaking of the Saudis and Egyptians as our moderate Arab allies.<BR/><BR/>These guys must get confused - trying to seem consistant, etc.<BR/><BR/>It's good for them, for their own psyche, that they never visit the mid-east or speak/read Arabic. They would go nuts.<BR/><BR/>Personally - I know little about the middle east, but I could fake it if I wanted to - But I would know, deep inside, that I was faking it. These guys somehow seem to escape the anxiety of feeling neurotic about being frauds and B---S--- artists. Hats off to them. Free market.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19184418.post-1153445304944601402006-07-20T18:28:00.000-07:002006-07-20T18:28:00.000-07:00yes. and this week the Iraqi pm and the other Shii...yes. and this week the Iraqi pm and the other Shiite political and religious figures --- that the neocons helped come to power -- are bashing Israel... It seems to me that Saddam would have been more supportive of Israeli attack on an ally of Iran... LeonLeon Hadarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07074306142674999554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19184418.post-1153440918516377952006-07-20T17:15:00.000-07:002006-07-20T17:15:00.000-07:00Sailor probably noticed 'conservatives' like Kraut...Sailor probably noticed 'conservatives' like Krauthammer lauding the Sunni tyrants for critcizing Hezbollah. But recall a few years ago many 'conservatives' were saying the liberated Iraqi shia (Wolfowitz loves them) may inspire the oppressed Shia in Saudi to assert themselves against the Kingdom . Recall those days - after all, the Sunnis were the ones sending money to all those 'charities' that arent so peacefulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com