Posted on 01/17/2008 5:03:09 AM PST by SJackson
There is something surreal about the spectacle of President Bush touring the Persian Gulf. It calls to mind the signature line of Mad Magazine's mascot, Alfred E. Neuman: "What, me worry?"
Mr. Bush's trip is, after all, premised on the notion that the Arab leaders he is courting there are reliable allies. Such a proposition should be subjected to the closest of critical scrutiny by Congress, the press and the American electorate since a number of highly debatable, and increasingly portentous, policies are predicated on this assumption. These include:
--Saudi Arabia and the other, smaller desert principalities are "moderates" who are as opposed as we to the totalitarian political agenda of fanatical ideologues such as Osama bin Laden.
--The Gulfies share our concern about the rising power of Iran and therefore can be counted upon to join us in countering that region's would-be Islamofascist superpower. It follows not only that we can safely provide these autocracies with an array of advanced weapons, but we must do so.
--The Arab regimes in the Persian Gulf will help broker a peace between Palestinians and Israelis — if only the United States pressures the Jewish State to make territorial and other concessions that may imperil the latter.
--And the willingness of the Gulf's potentates to recycle the immense wealth they have accumulated in recent years — primarily through oil sales at exorbitantly inflated prices — to purchase big stakes in U.S. companies and capital markets is a welcome development. Such investment is to be encouraged, and those who say otherwise should be condemned as "Chicken Little xenophobes" in the words of former General Electric Chairman Jack Welch and his wife, Suzy.
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ditto.
if it were a clinton,
why, it’d make perfect sense!
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What a disgrace, an American president waving an infidel head chopper like a total dupe.
Subtext: “Please please send us cheap oil, and dollars to prop up our collapsing financial sector.”
I think that’s “afterglow” on their faces.
Notice how our President is holding his sword... the sharp edge towards his neck? The Saudis have the sharp edge away. That must be what they are laughing at.
You got a point. But judging from their expressions can you tell who was on top?
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All I know for sure is that when globalists and arab sheiks are all giggling, WE’RE going to get it in the end.
LOL..AC! (Lots Of Laughs ... and crying)
Simply amazing how stupid the rabid Bush haters are when it comes to geo political strategy.
Frank Gaffney, the author of this piece, is no “Junk Media Moron.” Nor would I consider him to be a “Bush hater.” He had a very high appointed position in the Reagan Administration.
Yes, and to it's west is a country called Iraq.
I think much of the criticism centers around the fact that GWB has extablished a palestinian state as the cornerstone of our foreign policy, despite the lack of an elected government, or control of their territory.
Hopefully the underlying reason for this trip was Iran, we'll see what progress is made, but diplomaticaly we're not doing well with either Iraq or Iran.
Rather than holding the Annapolis meetings for the purpose of getting Arab states to recognize Israel, failure was obvious when Condi consented to making the Israeli delegation use the service entrance, how about spending our time getting a single Arab state to recognize Iraq. And helping in our effort there.
It’s pathetic.
If you wanted to stop Iran from building nuclear weapons, shouldn’t your geopolitical strategy be centered around Russian help with Iran’s nuclear program? Unless President Bush is courting allies for a US lead attack on Iran or bracing them for an Israeli attack I think Bush is getting out of the country to un-involve himself in the US political process for President. I believe Clinton did this at this time in his last term. Remember Clinton going around Africa appoligizing for this, that and the other?
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