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Summit's Collapse Puts Arab Leaders in Disarray
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| 3/29/04
| NY Times
Posted on 03/28/2004 7:55:51 PM PST by Mark Felton
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"set to grapple with vital regional issues like democratic reform"It is thanks strictly to the Bush doctrine, that these authoritarian states are even considering democracy.
To: Mark Felton
Wake up, it's 1987 in the Middle East. Two more years until 1989.
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posted on
03/28/2004 7:59:19 PM PST
by
js1138
To: Mark Felton
Very poorly written article. You have to get down to the bottom of it to see that "Tunisia pulled the plug, announcing that it would not preside over a gathering willing to make what it called only a tepid commitment to reform."
Doesn't the Times at least have a stringer in Tunisia who could ask the government for a statement? Even a "No comment"? Shoddy, slipshod, poorly written journalism, all too typical of the Times today. They are not only over the top politically, they no longer can write, spell, or compose a decent news article.
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:02:17 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Cicero
It's the 'diversity' in the news room, doncha know?
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:04:59 PM PST
by
Rummyfan
Khairallah Khairallah, a political commentator and former editor in chief of Al Hayat, a London-based Arabic newspaper. I think he's related to Duran Duran. I'll have to check.
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:07:48 PM PST
by
JohnnyZ
(Got some dirt on my shoulder -- could you brush it off for me?)
To: Mark Felton
ahh good...
The pan arab state, in a de facto condition tantamount to civil war.
Their "hate fest"
for the WEST:
cancelled due to division and strife.
excellent Mr. President.
Mark,
given a reasonable split, how many of the
arab "states" do you think might actually
be flirting with the idea of Westernization
and constitutional democracy?
I would guess 8-10 at least.
WHO are the chief holdouts?
Iran?
Syria?
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:09:27 PM PST
by
Robert_Paulson2
(the madridification of our election is now officially underway.)
To: JohnnyZ
no... you got it wrong.
he's related to
Korina Korina,
from the sixties.
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:10:27 PM PST
by
Robert_Paulson2
(the madridification of our election is now officially underway.)
To: JohnnyZ
Blockquote>
I think he's related to Duran Duran. I'll have to check. Methinks he is more closely related to Sirhan Sirhan
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:10:40 PM PST
by
DeSoto
To: Mark Felton
disarray Bump
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:12:35 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi Mac ... Support Our Troops! ... Thrash the demRats in November!!! ... Beat BoXer!!!)
To: Mark Felton
the agenda, which bogged down in details like how to present Arab culture at the Frankfurt book fair Especially how to avoid being placed within twenty feet of the Israeli booth.
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:16:07 PM PST
by
Alouette
(A nasty end, and I wish I needn't have seen it; but it's a good riddance.)
To: Mark Felton
"Arab Leaders in Disarray"
It's just like in the book... when you kill sauron/saruman his followers go into disarray. Anybody have that double frame of saruman and Yassin?
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:18:44 PM PST
by
Betaille
("Show them no mercy, for none shall be shown to you")
To: Mark Felton
Israel's continued existance is proof the Arabs can't get their acts together.
To: Mark Felton
The exact reason is a matter of some dispute, but all sides viewed the meeting's collapse - even as some heads of state were on their way - as an embarrassment.
______________________________
Breakdown of the all-boy entertainment committee's bus was completely unrelated to the tension and frustration exhibited by delegates.
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:23:16 PM PST
by
tubavil
To: js1138
"You feel they are completely lost," said Mr. Khairallah, the political commentator. "The Arab League is finally feeling the impact of the fall of Baghdad. It took them a whole year." What a devestating analysis--by an Arab, no less. It's becoming obvious that the fall of Baghdad is the opportunity for millions of Iraqis to taste freedom and enjoy a chance for a better life. Just like the fall of the Iron Curtain, now millions have a chance for a better life. Terrorism and suicide bombers are products of total frustration and hopelessness. It's not religious so much as a reaction to weak, aimless governments who are corrupt and incompetant.
George W. Bush may come to be viewed as the pivotal world figure who reacted with compassion to the terrorist nations. We seek not to kill them all but to hear them and to help them.
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:27:03 PM PST
by
DJtex
To: Mark Felton
It is thanks strictly to the Bush doctrine, that these authoritarian states are even considering democracy. Not only that, but president Bush has managed to sow disarray among the entire arab world. This is a wonderful thing from the western standpoint.
From disarray comes revolution and true reform.
To: Alouette
Especially how to avoid being placed within twenty feet of the Israeli booth.Or maybe one of them actually figured out that the fashion show featuring the hot new spring line of burqas and explosive vests wouldn't go over real well.
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:29:13 PM PST
by
CFC__VRWC
(AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - don't liberals just kill ya?)
To: DJtex
One thing is for certain. In the next century, today's democrats will be cataloged along with holocaust deniers and Stalin sympathizers.
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:33:05 PM PST
by
js1138
To: Mark Felton
BIAS
the American occupation of Iraq See also: reconstruction, rebuilding, liberation.
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:43:01 PM PST
by
sdk7x7
("This time I think the Americans are serious. Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is the end.")
To: JohnnyZ
Khairallah Khairallah, a political commentator and former editor in chief of Al Hayat, a London-based Arabic newspaper. I think he's related to Duran Duran. I'll have to check.
Or, at the very least, Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
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posted on
03/28/2004 8:44:05 PM PST
by
NYC GOP Chick
("If I could shoot like that, I would still be in the NBA" -- Bill Clinton, circa 1995)
To: Mark Felton
when I read the title I thought of Samson and the Biblical story of 'Bring down the house' and it brought very warm & fuzzy pleasant thought to my mind.
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