Two Great Quotes on Mughniyah
- 02.13.2008 - 5:28 PMThe first from David Schenker:
The fact that Mughniyah was killed in Damascus highlights the Asad regime’s increasing difficulties in protecting the terrorists they provide with “safe haven.” In 2004, another guest of the regime, Hamas leader Izzeddin Subhi Sheikh Khalil, was killed by a car bomb in Damascus. The Israelis bombed an Islamic Jihad training camp in 2003, buzzed Asad’s Latakia palace in 2006, and destroyed a presumed North Korean-supplied nuclear facility in 2007. As Mughniyah’s aunt told AFP earlier today, “We were shocked to learn that he was killed in Syria. We thought he was safe there.”
And the second, from Tony Badran, rounding out Schenker:
Zbig Brzezinski was in Damascus today. And, according to SANA, Zbig told journalists that the US and Syria have a shared interest in stability in the region. Now, we all knew that Zbig was a buffoon, but to say this on the day that Imad Mughniyeh was assassinated in Damascus is really a proud moment for the man on whose watch Mughniyeh’s bosses took over Iran.
A shared interest in stability in the region, by giving safe haven to an all-star team of global terrorists? Buffoon might be too weak a word to describe Barack Obama’s foreign policy adviser.
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February 13th, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Obama is going to be worse than Carter. He’s a true believer. Look at his vote on wiretaps in today’s WSJ. Look at the photo of Che on the Cuban flag in his Houston headquarters. http://ricecrispy.blogspot.com/2008/02/ok-its-been-while-since-writing-but.html
Che and Obama have this awful, insane cult following:
Obama’s face on t-shirt
Che’s face on t-shirt
February 13th, 2008 at 6:58 PM
Jan: Every time the junior senator from Illinois says Bush-McCain, we ought to counter with Che-Obama (Guavara-Obama sounds better, but how many will get the reference?).
As I said the other day, Noah, I find it hard to believe that Zbig is freelancing in Syria. This is a pre-election foreign policy mission from Obama, done with the requisite plausible deniability but nevertheless a feeling-out for what will be Junior’s first foreign policy initiative: winning the good graces of Baby Assad. In Obama’s world and that of the MoveOniacs, praise from contemptible terror masters passes for sophisticated policy.
February 13th, 2008 at 7:48 PM
Obama will have to under go a proctology exam from the MSM. It won’t do any good coming from the right. I’m just trying to throw a few seeds around.
I once suffered from CDS (Clinton Derangement Syndrome) It backfired bigtime. Demonizing Obama won’t work either. The “anointed” one will just point out that’s coming from the famed republican attack machine etc. The Che/Obama connection was just myway of having a little fun.
I hope no Willie Horton type adds run from Citizens United. It will be counter-productive.
February 13th, 2008 at 8:44 PM
All this talk about Che reminds about Johnnetta B. Cole, “marxist” professor of African-American studies at UMass Amherst. She was friends with Bill Cosby, who got his Ed.D, at UMass, before he became the “new” improved Bill Cosby.
She went on to become president of Spellman College, and the Cosbys promptly $20 mill (the largest donation in history of the USA) to the school.
She was married to Robert Cole, and had a handsome, mixed race son named Che!
She was part of the Venceremos Brigade, and led volunteers from Amherst to help pick crops in the worker’s paradise known as Cuba.
The marxism at UMass, probably, was the impetus for UMass professor Paul Hollander’s Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society. Coles was mentioned in the book. UMass also had the trust fund marxist, Sam Bowles, from the Pitney-Bowles family, as ???head of its economic’s dept.
I know that living in Amherst for 40 years turned me into a repubican by the late 1970s. You simply had to glance through a UMass catalogue to see what the taxpayers were funding at our flagship state school.
Yesterday, I looked at the Amherst Student, the Amherst College newspaper. Baby, they’ve come along way! (to the left that is) The Collegian, UMass’ newspaper, is low-rank in comparison. They had was a recent editorial lamenting Reagan’s adulation. Too bad they spelled Reagan wrong.
February 13th, 2008 at 10:23 PM
A shared interest in stability?
Sigh.
Does Zbig really believe this crap? If so, why then does he suppose Syria exports terrorism to Israel, Lebanon, and Iraq?
February 13th, 2008 at 11:49 PM
I’m shocked by Michael Lerner’s e-mail:
Obama’s Jewish problem
By Michael Lerner, Tikkun (email commentary), February 2, 2008
I hadn’t read anything about this group in ages. I can’t believe Lerner used the term Jewish neo-cons and Israel Lobby. (Does he really have to write the word Jewish in there? I figured out a decade ago, by reading Free Republic, that it was a code word for “Jews”)
Is he right in his assessment that Obama is a spiritual progressive?
February 14th, 2008 at 7:59 AM
MJT, there is a staggering array of people who believe — or at least say they believe — that both Iran and Syria have “an interest in stability in the region.” This is the whole conceit behind Baker-Hamilton, all the pro-engagement people, and, I’m sorry to say, the foreign policy views of the two Democratic presidential candidates, who say that they’ll work with Iran and Syria to ensure that an American withdrawal from Iraq will go smoothly, because Iran and Syria also wish for “stability” in the Middle East. Brzezinski is just the tip of the iceberg for this monumentally stupid idea.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:10 AM
In all fairness, Syria and Iran do want stability in the Middle East—on their terms, under their rule. That is not quite the stability a normal American would want to see.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:46 AM
Iran and Syria have an interest in “stability in the Middle East” about as much as Zbiggy was over there in Damascus for the sole purpose of promoting the virtues of AIPAC to Baby Assad. [ still no chin- clearly didn’t read the Soloveichik article in Commentary-on-line, about the potential covering benefits of facial hair]
Also, I’m rapidly becoming a real fan of “Jan from Amherst MA”, and have already given serious consideration to putting her name up for membership in the local chapter of the Eishet Chayil Society, of which I’m one of the charter members [even though I’m a guy]
You gotta hold a little in reserve though, Jan, and to pace yourself, m’dear, cause we’re really, really gonna need your help later on, and before the main event is over.
Of course, and on the other hand, if this is just “the beginning of the beginning” as far as you’re concerned and there is, in fact, “lots and lots more of where that came from”, more of what you have managed to come up with so far, that is, well then ma’am, what’s holding you back?
Surely it’s not Grumpy.You know about the bit part he played in the tale of “Snow White”, until he finally learned the error of his neo- isolationist ways.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:55 AM
Well, of course Syria and Iran want stability in the region. They want it on their terms –whatever it takes to achieve them — and whoever opposes their terms is AGAINST stability in the region. If Israel and the US would stop opposing them, there WOULD be peace and stability.