So Much for Dialogue
Hey, Steny Hoyer, don’t you know that when you’re talking to furriners you have to SPEAK LOUDLY so they’ll understand you?
In his weekly sermon, the general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Muhammad Mahdi ‘Akef, called for attacks in Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
He said that the U.S.’s plan was based on imposed rule according to a unilateral view characterized by extremism without taking into account the simplest principles of the unique faith, culture, and society of other peoples.
‘Akef called for directing the energy of the resistance, with all the means at its disposal, towards the real enemy of the nation, the occupying, murdering, torturing, and plundering enemy of all good things, the enemy concealed in Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Kabul…
And in the House of Representaitves. Or most of it, anyway. In some corners, decency prevails:
Three powerful US congressmen have sharply criticized Saudi Arabia following a report in Monday’s Jerusalem Post that the desert kingdom is breaking its pledge to drop the Arab League boycott of Israel.
In November 2005, Saudi leaders promised Washington they would abandon the embargo on Israel after the Bush administration conditioned admission to the World Trade Organization on the move. A month later, Saudi Arabia was granted WTO membership.
The WTO, which promotes free trade, prohibits member states from engaging in discriminatory practices such as boycotts or embargoes.
Well, no, I guess it doesn’t.
And we’re selling advanced weapons to these people? Why don’t we try them out first, to see if they work? Like the salesman who dumps dust on the housewife’s floor to demonstrate the power of his vacuum. From the smoldering crater of Medina, I can hear the satisfied comment: “Let’s get a picture of this for the brochure.”