And now, the Latino Jihad

Four years ago, The Economist ran a cover story on the winner of the Brazilian election, the socialist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. It was an event of great hemispherical significance. Hence the headline: "The Meaning Of Lula."

The following week, a Canadian reader, Asif Niazi, wrote to the magazine: "Sir, The meaning of Lula‚ in Urdu, is penis."

I was at a b-day party for my kid's friend, when one of the parents explained that his father worked for the CIA when he was a kid. He felt it was horrible that the US meddeled in other countries affairs.

I asked him about the verified local (Miami) reports that Chavez got millions for his campaign from Castro, Saddam Hussein and other OPEC nations. About how a communist candidate Humala in Peru was rumored to have recieved campaign money from China and Chavez. He didn't comment. Latin America is simply poor and vulnerable.

That was the point: hemispheric normality. As the Bush administration liked to note, the Americas were now a shining sea of democracy, save for the aging and irrelevant Fidel, who was the only head of government not invited to the summit. But, other than that, no more generalissimos in the presidential palace; they were republics, but no longer bananas.

When Mr. Bush arrived, he was greeted by Canada's Jean Chretien. "Bienvenue. That means welcome," said the prime minister, being a bit of a lula. But what did Bush care? He was looking south: That was the future, and they were his big amigos.

THEN SEPTEMBER 11 happened. And the amigos weren't quite so friendly, or at any rate helpful, and Mr. Bush found himself holed up with the usual pasty white blokes like Tony Blair and John Howard, back in the Anglosphere with not an enchilada in sight. And everyone was so busy boning up on Shari'a and Wahhabis and Kurds and Pushtuns that very few of us noticed that Latin America was slipping back to its old ways.

Exactly. Bush was virtually shunned by his southern buddies during the War on Terror and still he let them come thinking that allowing millions of their poor into our country would buy him favor.

How are the geniuses in this admin. going to explain to our future generations how they were taken in by these "noble peasants" to the south?

We are now one of the largest Spanish-speaking nations in the world. We're a major source of Latin music, journalism and culture.

Just go to Miami, or San Antonio, Los Angeles, Chicago or West New York, New Jersey ... and close your eyes and listen. You could just as easily be in Santo Domingo or Santiago, or San Miguel de Allende.

For years our nation has debated this change -- some have praised it and others have resented it. By nominating me, my party has made a choice to welcome the new America.

As I speak, we are celebrating the success of democracy in Mexico.

George Bush from a campaign speech in Miami, August 2000.

You can read the speech here.

Here is an excerpt of a good critique of that speech:

In equating our intimate historic bonds to our mother country and to Canada with our ties to Mexico, W. shows a staggering ignorance of the civilizational facts of life. The reason we are so close to Britain and Canada is that we share with them a common historical culture, language, literature, and legal system, as well as similar standards of behavior, expectations of public officials, and so on. My Bush Epiphany By Lawrence Auster

Last year, the British MP George Galloway was in Syria to see Baby Assad and gave a pep talk to Araby's only remaining Ba'athist regime:

"What your lives would be if from the Atlantic to the Gulf we had one Arab union - all this land, 300 million people, all this oil and gas and water, occupied by a people who speak the same language, follow the same religions, listen to the same Umm Kulthum. The Arabs would be a superpower in the world... Hundreds of thousands are ready to fight the Americans in the Middle East, and in Latin America there is revolution everywhere. Fidel Castro is feeling young again. Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Chile are all electing left-wing governments which are challenging American domination. And in Venezuela, the hero Hugo Chavez has stood against them over and over and over again."

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Dang! Galloway is such a piece of clinton!

According to Karl Rove "we just have a problem with Brown people."
Congressman J.D. Hayworth was interviewed on the radio this a.m and that was Karl Rove's response to Hayworth when Hayworth approached Rove about the illegal immigration problem. I guess we now know where the Bush administration is coming from. Anyone who wants the immigration laws enforced, employers who hire illegals fined and the borders secured, including Hispanic Americans, are all "Bigots!" I guess we're just going to have to wait until 2008 to elect a POTUS who will enforce the immigration laws.

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