Sunday, December 14, 2003

Too many things to upset me. Angry Arab is not easy to please. I heard CNN on my satellite radio: and all that Aaron Brown wanted to know about Saddam's capture was: "Can you tell us if there was a lot of high-fiving in the White House?" I swear. This what passes as news analysis on CNN. And AlJazeera: had a report about Saddam's career: and in reference to his gassing of the Kurds (he also used Chemical weapons on Iran, by the way), it said: "and Kurds allege that Chemical weapons were used against them." What? What? And embedded Middle East expert on CBS: Fouad Ajami (who assured Dick Cheney that Arabs (not only Iraqis) would welcome US war and beg for more Middle East wars, was analyzing the situation. He kept talking like a military commander, not as a social scientist: "Dan, we had to go to the center of the Arab world. Dan, we had to go to Afghanistan.etc." Do experts on Mexico or experts on China speak like that? "We have to send the troops" "here" and "there." What is happening?