Seven Wonders
Memri brings Arab columnists’ take on the Seven Wonders of the World. A couple of them wonder at the near total dysfunction of the Muslim world. But I like this one from a Syrian wiseacre:
“The American president, of course, surpasses all the wonders of the world, and all the strangeness of place and time. For six and a half years… this man has been presenting to the world what [even] a magician, a cynic, or a pessimist would not have expected of him. The wonders [he has wrought] in Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon are more impressive and amazing than the pyramids of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Petra, Tadmor, or even the Great Wall of China. Also, those who float [in the world of imagination] never imagined in their [wildest] visions that this man would leave in the world such a mark of death, destruction, murder, and conflagration. He calls - and no one believes him - for democracy?! Is there anything more wondrous on earth than his democracy?!”
You want to see a wonder, try writing something like that about your man Bashar. Meanwhile, learned men will be looking up the Seventh Wonder’s seventh wonder in the a.m., and here’s a wonder for you: Cheney gets to be president. Gateway wants your input on what he might do from his seat of power.
Welcmoe Pajamas, etal! You want to see a wonder? Try this six-month wonder. Meanwhile, gotta wonder what’s up with the wardrobe change. I never cease to wonder at what comes out of this guy’s mouth. I also wonder if more like this might embarrass the rank and file into doing something besides another meaningless round of surrender votes. There’s five more wonders for you.
Topics: Bush
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:21 pm on Friday, July 20, 2007
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July 21st, 2007 at 10:59 am
Bashar ?
The ophthalmologist ?
He strikes me as less overtly brutal than his father but also probably more open to manipulation and machinations of those around him.
“The world” is still playing that game of attempting to lay everything at the feet of the sitting American President while attempting to ignore ongoing egregious atrocities in their own backyards.
It would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.
July 21st, 2007 at 11:35 am
That Syrian scribbler sounds like al-Phie, albeit somewhat more literate and turgid in his prose.
July 21st, 2007 at 11:50 am
Good one Jules (regarding the first writer), “you want to see a wonder, try writing something like that about Bashar”
I’m sure the writer would soon have electrodes applied to his genitals and be seeing the true wonders of totalitarian state stability. And be singing Allah’s praises.
The second writer to offer up “seven wonders” is Lebanese columnist ‘Issam Sahmarani who slips in “the wonder of eliminating Israel”. Ahhh Yes, the wonder of State level Genocide. It brings a tear to my eye and warms my belly. Raise a glass to killing several million people.
This Lebanese writer throws out all sorts of reforms as his “seven wonders” as he whimsically talks of wiping Israel off the map. Ironically, all the reforms he describes exist only in the country he wants to wipe off the map—Israel, and in post Saddam Iraq.
And he implicitly blames Israel’s existence for Arab’s disunity and lack of progress in all his reform categories.
It takes Jews and Western Infidels to bring reform to the Mideast. Most Arabs are too blind to see it or to arrogant to admit it. One who is not is Fouad Ajami, also Lebanese.
“The Foreigner’s Gift”
http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1256/article_detail.asp
And for a truly brutal but honest picture of the failure that is Arab Civilization…
ARABS LAST CHANCE
By Ralph Peters.
http://can.mailarchive.ca/politics/2006-08/15325.html
July 23rd, 2007 at 10:39 am
Fouad Ajami, Walid Shoebat (ex “terrorist”), essays of Salman Rushdie…and other individuals actually from that neck of the woods who have ever so much deeper understanding of the dynamic.
And, lest we forget, Wafa Sultan, Syrian, now living in California, who (I recall) watched her professor in Syria be shot at point blank range.
Nothing compares to the passion and conviction she evinces here.
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2703896