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Syriously, Though

This is funny, in a sad-clown, third-world tinpot dictatorship and sponsor of terrorism in benighted neighboring countries kind of way. Official Syrian press columnist calls Bush “the Fuehrer of the 21st century” and predicts US empire’s fall. MEMRI:  

” … Even a novice to politics and international relations can see very clearly that President Bush Jr.’s escapade in Iraq is a significant turning point that will go down in history as the beginning of the fall of the great American empire.

“Though the entire tyrannical media is mobilizing in a vain attempt to present the events [in Iraq] as the complete opposite [from what they really are], [eventually] it is geography that will [have the last word]. That is what happened to the great Roman Empire, to the British Empire, and to the French empire, in the tripartite attack on Egypt in 1956… This is also what history wrote on the death certificate of the Nazi beast - the Fuehrer - who in his day held every crucial [source of] power, and relied on [this power] as he set out to destroy part of humanity and conquer the rest, so as to turn them into slaves in the service of the ‘Aryan übermensch ‘…

“Yes, that is hubris, the deadly disease of the mighty. And now George Bush Jr. - the Fuehrer of the 21st century - is falling victim to the same deadly disease of hubris. [This is] a failure to use and manage power [wisely].

…

“Many think that it was the support [given by] most Western countries to the American administration in its ‘holy war,’ or ‘crusade,’ as Mister George Bush himself called it, and the neutral stance adopted by many countries, that encouraged the ‘American Fuehrer’ to make the mistake that may be his last…

“Once again, geography and history will [have the last word]… Even if it takes a long time, and the enemy is strong and ruthless, [eventually] the people will rise up again like a volcano or like a flood that will reduce the invaders to [nothing more than] remnants of ugly images in the memory of the locals.

“When we shift [the camera] from the scene of events, namely from Iraq, to the U.S. [itself], we will see [America’s] defeat in this war even more clearly. The American people’s objection to the war, which is growing every day, is the most resounding proof of the crisis in which the American administration, and the neocons in the White House, find themselves. As long as the decision-makers refuse to acknowledge this reality, and as a result fail to deal with it wisely and without [spewing] political and ideological rhetoric, America will be facing a great catastrophe.

“More than one Western analyst has assessed that the goal of the American administration in this war was to tighten the siege on Syria and Iran and to isolate them completely, with the excuse that they are meddling in the affairs [of other countries in] the Middle East, from Palestine and Lebanon to Iraq… This administration, or rather the [few] sane people still left in it, will discover that Syria’s and Iran’s intervention is the only thing that [can] save them from meeting their political and strategic death in this region.”

That guy needs to start reading the AP and watching MSNBC. We’re winning. Someone needs to remind him who Syria’s daddy is. Not Iran.

But the last line quoted above is actually interesting.  It’s a very good question. When is this administration going to wake up and discover that Syria’s and Iran’s intervention is the only thing that can save them from meeting their political and strategic death in this region? Peace through kowtowing to terrorism-sponsoring third-world tinpot dictatorships! 

Topics: Syria

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:53 pm on Wednesday, November 28, 2007

4 Responses to “Syriously, Though”

1. saltydog Says:
   November 29th, 2007 at 6:54 am

   I’m confused. Was this actually a statement from some yahoo in the Middle East, or some yahoo in the U.S. Congress? It is sometimes difficult to tell.

   Jule’s last statement is a profound one. Bush undercuts himself and the war every time he deviates from his own stated premises. He finally managed to rid himself of incompetent generals (both on active duty and retired), but he has done great damage in allowing Condi Rice in the Middle East. She is a disaster, unfortunately. This country desperately needs a good Sec. of State.

2. RebeccaH Says:
   November 29th, 2007 at 10:21 am

   Agreed.

   But I thought the Syrians and Iranians admired the Fuehrer?

3. The Thunder Run Says:
   November 29th, 2007 at 11:18 am

   Web Reconnaissance for 11/29/2007

   A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.

4. Michael Lonie Says:
   November 29th, 2007 at 10:50 pm

   They do admire old Adolf, Rebecca. His Mein Kampf is one of the books most often translated from a foreign language into Arabic. In Arabic its title translates as “Jihadi”. Very appropriate I thought. When you see one of those statistics saying that more books are translated into Spanish in one year than have been translated into Arabic since El Cid captured Valencia, remember that includes multiple translations of Mein Kampf and The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

   Syria has a National Socialist Party by the way, in additon to the ruling Ba’ath Party. The Ba’ath was founded by some Westernized Arab intellectuals in the 1930s. It’s ideology was put together by a man named Michel Aflaq, a nominally Christian Arab educated in French philosophy. He carefully and deliberately chose all the worst aspects from each of the contemporary totalitarianisms to form the ideology of “Arab Renewal,” antisemitism and the exaltation of nihilistic violence from Naziism, socialism, militant atheism and omnipresent secret police from Communism, and bombastic nationalist hysteria from Italian Fascism.

   Let’s see, the Roman Empire ruled Syria fromabout 60 BC to about 640 AD, or 700 years roughly. So if geography forces us out like it did the Romans…well that might give us enough time to convert even Syria into a civilized country.

   The sooner the Assad dynasty is overthrown the better. I don’t much care what sort of oppressor the Syrians put in after that, so long as he stops being a pain in the rear end to us and our friends. If they want to be ruled by a fascist tyrant, hey I’m copacetic with that. They’ve never been ruled by anything else. Just stop making trouble for us, or we will make more trouble for you, Syrian fascists.

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