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November 20, 2006
it's ok; they're yawning!
ted koppel (on meet the press) thinks it's just fine and dandy that every Iranian from first-graders to politicians are compelled to chant "death to america!" ... because he's got videos that PROVE that many of them tend to yawn when they do this. (perhaps it takes a good "death to israel!" to really get the hate flowing to the point where you stop yawning)
both of our political parties are telling us, if by way of all manner of terribly failures, that they are not prepared to succeed either "the Democratic Way" or "the Republican Way", and the American people have listened to these messages, and replied that we would like to see some intelligent, brave, and honorable non-partisan candidates in office (giuliani-lieberman '08 :p). the republicans have not been competent in managing the war effort, at very least on the domestic PR front (Blair managed, last year when it was way too late, to clarify to Bush that his delivery needs work; of course the fact that Blair encounters the level of derision he does from London despite his clarity and principle reflects poorly on our fellow anglospherics), and the democrats have repeatedly and utterly failed to offer any remotely acceptable sort of alternative.
back at the home, even as some are worrying that liberal muslims aren't speaking out, others are busy ensuring ... that liberal muslims do not speak out.
the present generation is called upon to conduct another denazification. some of us would rather die. so shall we repeat the wwII way, this time perhaps with a nuclear daniel-pearl-harbor?
the '12 election, if not '08, will not be between democrat and republican, but rather, between the US president and OBL (or the Iranian Mullahs if we have been utterly stupid in failing to resolve those mfs, as it looks like we may). may we put a jfk-caliber president in the box by then. the crisis may well reach cuban missile levels, and beyond...
Posted by matt at November 20, 2006 07:55 AM