A. Jobs for the policy b’hoys in a Democratic Administration, of course.
Also on display over at the upper left front of Castle Aardvark as of 05/07/2008 08:15AM was the following annotated link,
| # Al-Hayat: Al-Qaeda and the difficulties of jihad in Lebanon ..y'know, I didn't think there was much of a chance of AQ doing anything in Lebanon until I saw how many articles flooded the Lebanon-oriented Arab press saying that there wasn't.... |
Even by the miserable standards of the Anglo-Arabian Press Trust, that one should be an embarrassment to the wheeler-dealers. Look at the credentials of the Lebanon-flooders in question , for gosh sake!
| Bilal Y. Saab is Senior Research Assistant at the Saban center for Middle East Policy at Brookings. Magnus Ranstorp is Research Director of the Center for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defense College. |
Can’t hardly get more indig than those two.
In short, Mr. Bones, after we transfer the International Zone neorégime to suburban London so that poor M. al-Málikí and the rest may have the chance to visit their families and countrymen more often, humanitarian concern ought to relocate the Beirut statelet to some suitable civilised region as well.
It is no good to take the line that virtual proximity is good enough nowadays, because it isn’t as good. Powerpointers and other elaborately cultivated fruit from the Tanks of Thought do not like to live by e-mail and webpage alone, sir, they enjoy a good junket as much as anybody.
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