| A plea for U.S. to engage By Boston Herald Editorial Staff | Friday, September 28, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Editorials Perhaps having failed to get a face-to-face meeting with President Barack Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used the megaphone of the U.N. General Assembly to make his point that there is little time left in the fight to keep Iran from getting a nuclear weapon — a cause Obama insists he is committed to. “At this late hour, there is only one way to peacefully prevent Iran from getting atomic bombs and that’s by placing a clear red line on Iran’s nuclear weapons program,” Netanyahu said. “Red lines don’t lead to war; red lines prevent war.” And with the help of a rather simple graphic — based on public reports by the U.N.’s own nuclear watchdogs — he insisted that Iran is well within its second stage of uranium enrichment.... (...) He made the requisite pitch for a peace process with a “demilitarized Palestinian state” that would recognize Israel’s right to exist only to be followed at the podium by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accusing Israel of “a campaign of ethnic cleansing” for building settlements in east Jerusalem. “We won’t solve our conflict with libelous speeches at the U.N.,” Netanyahu had said moments earlier. Nor will the problems of the Middle East — Iran, the conflict in Syria, the virtually stalled peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority — be solved by a president and an administration that are derelict in their duty to engage on those issues. To relinquish that authority is to create a vacuum that other players, like Russia’s Vladimir Putin, are all too eager to fill. |
Q What do the editorial-anonymous Fingers of Fehrnstrom have in mind, exactly, when they preach 'engagement' to the freedummies?
A. A red line.
Q. Would that be an Alewife-Ashmont red line, or Alewife-Braintree?
A. Oh, definitely the former. Everything with a 'brain' in it has been conceded to Perfesser Warren and Mr. Chamberlain in advance.
Nevertheless, the Fingers DID almost, though not quite, notice how Magnifico Megalator thinks he's the Headmaster of an idiot school servicin Rio Limbaugh an Louisedayhicksville. "A rather simple graphic" is only in the warning zone, there is no immediate emergency, but the Tel 'Aviyv authorities would do well to assume that wombschoolin has not yet reduced the Tee Putty of central North America to PERFECT malleability. That it may never do so, even. Meanwhile, the closer you come to total malleability, the worse trouble you will be in, should your patients nevertheless start feelin that (what is left of) their intelligence has been insulted.
Lifting one's eyes from the local journalistic gutter, one must allow that "“We won’t solve our conflict with libelous speeches" was pretty nifty, agitpropwise. It happens to be the truth, which is never a bad thing for the agitpropper to deploy, provided nothing more important must be sacrificed. [*]
Happy days.
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[*] The freedummies, or their Freelords an Kiddiemasters, may not altogether agree with Paddy's off-the-mouse generalization.
Lately the makin of libelous speeches (sc., against othervolks' religionism) has made a major come-back in whight-ring circles. Now of course conflict resolution is not exactly the point of insistin that Wunnerful US ought to be as rude as possible about Natives. Apart from the narrow interests of _jihaad_ careerists, the object of this exercise appears to be to make sure Amendment I to the Fedguv Constitution gets enough exercise so that it does not rust, or lapse into obesity, or whatever fate it may be that befalls amendments when they go ahoo.
Should these, the Calisthenics of Freedumb, as it were, lead to even more difficulties for our Native Management specialists and violence pros, well, that may or may not be accounted a misfortune at Wingut City, but it is certainly not a reason for the cits to abstain from what they have every whight to do.
