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Thursday, March 19, 2009
The Sudanese dictator
I watched that clown yesterday: and he was feverishly clowning on the stage. Something is striking about this guy: aside from his repressive rule. He is so dumb and so buffoonish. Bashir is lousy caricature of a military dictator. He is like the stereotype of a dictator in Woody Allen's movie, Bananas (one of my all time favorite movies). The Sudanese people have produced most interesting writers and intellectuals and its political culture in the 1960s was the most vibrant and progressive in the Arab world, and now we have this one. But I also thought this as I watched him: who is more autocratic? Bashir or Mubarak or King `Abdullah (choose one)?