The ultimate example of the Rice/Bush/Baker legacy. As Bush tells the American people one thing, his gang implements quite a different policy internationally. As an example this is what he told a gathering of the American Legion in 2006:
…Second, we have made it clear to all nations, if you harbor terrorists, you are just as guilty as the terrorists; you’re an enemy of the United States, and you will be held to account. (Applause.) And third, we’ve launched a bold new agenda to defeat the ideology of the enemy by supporting the forces of freedom in the Middle East and beyond.
Today it has been announced that we have accepted a ‘compromise’ that allows IranianTerrorist Death Squad Hezbollah to actually become a veto-power wielding part of the Lebanese government.
Hezbollah gets veto power in Lebanese government
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Lebanon’s prime minister has formed a national unity Cabinet in which Hezbollah and its allies have veto power over government decisions…Hezbollah’s veto power was part of an Arab League-brokered deal to achieve compromise between the U.S. and Western-backed parliamentary majority and Hezbollah-led opposition.
This one day after Rice insists to Iran that we’ll “defend our allies” in the Middle East. Funny way to show that by allowing one of the terrorist groups of the nation at issue to control the government right next to Israel.
Does the president know about this?
“Allows� What exactly are we suppose to do? What power do we have over their government?
“Hezbollah’s veto power was part of an Arab League-brokered deal to achieve compromise between the U.S. and Western-backed parliamentary majority and Hezbollah-led opposition.â€
U.S./Western backed doesn’t mean controlled.
We’re responsible for what the Lebanese parliament does?
I’m pretty sure Hezbollah is still our enemy.
Let’s not fool ourselves with this. Lebanon has gone from a Syrian sub-let to a wholly owned subsid…no….a state of Iran.
Now, should we ask ourselves how we’re doing in this sleepwalking through history? Better not. I might remember terms like the Austrian Anschluss, Hungarian Freedom Fighters, Prague Spring.
Someone might take a look a a map someday and visualize that things still happen.
Look at the Iraq situation, then picture the “stans”…. Then look to the lower Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. Walk up the Somalia Beach, up, up a little more. See where Egypt is? Has anyone seen anything ominous?
Oh, the Hell with it, Americana. Go back to Vanity Fair, GQ and your other how to dress by picture books.
I just overrheard the guy with ears saying if we started drilling for oil now we wouldn’t see a benefit for so many years. Brilliant, the obvious as Holy Writ. So start now, or yesterday….as we could have ten years ago.
George has to be back on the sauce again…ah aw ah(my impersonation of Obamy and Bush is criticized for his speaking abilities?) maybe not, maybe he’s just completely overtaken by his globalism.