Posted on 07/23/2006 9:35:14 AM PDT by ArGee
"FOX NEWS SUNDAY" GUEST HOST BRIT HUME: For more now on efforts to resolve this conflict, we're joined from our New York studios by the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton.
Mr. Ambassador, welcome. Good morning.
U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE UNITED NATIONS JOHN BOLTON: Glad to be here.
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I wonder what kind of weaponry the Democrats have, RPGs? And those Wascawwy Wepubwicans. Anti-Tank Missiles?
Shalom
Oh, that's easy. The Democratic Party has the labor unions in their arsenal. If they need a Republican campaign office shot up, or election polls packed with political operatives - the labor unions have no problems providing the manpower.
Did you hear the Syrian ambassador after Bush said Assad should cut the sh** out? She was so obnoxious and snotty, she should be glad I am not President. I would have pulled her credentials and snet her home. She scoffed at Bush as being too simple and demanded that America as superpower fix everything.
No, I didn't hear the response. But it doesn't surprise me.
People like that believe several things about Americans:
1) Americans are all stupid.
2) Democrat/Liberals in America are useful idiots.
3) Their pure cultures are superior to us American cultural mutts.
None of that is true. They are jealous and intimidated.
Some are jealous, but most believe that the U.S. gained its wealth through deception and outright theft. That's why they think that they can't out compete us.
They look at us as the trumped up, pretentious wannabes who won the lottery and moved into Beverly Hills mansions.
Most of them are megalomaniacs and can't comprehend why they aren't as important as an elected, two term wonder from the United States who speaks with a drawl, and walks with a striding gait, and who was like that before he ever became the most powerful man in the world.
There is some element of jealousy, but their primary emotion concerning the U.S. is contempt.
There is an interesting literature on anti-Americanism, by the way. Basically, anti-Americanism is a French neurosis of men like de Gaulle and Chirac, but it is not shared by most people.
If you go back to my original reply to you, and parse my other reply to you carefully, you'll notice that I'm referring specifically to people like the Syrian ambassador, and many European political leaders who have demonstrated repeatedly their contempt for our country. It is not jealousy that drives them. It is general greed, covetousness, and overweening pride.
You're the one who brought up the Syrian ambassador. Not I, and I've stuck to that narrow set of people defined by "people like" her.
Oh, I think she is probably married to someone and delighted to be in Washington where she can slip her Burka in the back of her closet. she's just in over her head pretending to be an ambassador. But, hey, you are entitled to your opinion. Vive la differance.
You misconstrue something I said, and project my comments out of context onto a demographic which I expressly excluded by explicitly describing the category of persons to which I was ascribing attributes to...
And all I get is that I'm entitled to my own opinion?
Relax. I don't relate to what you say, and I think you are wrong. I don't see any basis to continue.
And I don't like being misconstrued when I've been explicit.
I did not cast aspersions on foreigners in general. We were talking in the narrow context of people who look at our country through an elitist's lens, like the Syrian ambassador. I specified the target category of persons included in my generalization.
You then went on and expanded that category to include people you know. Unless you're in the habit of circulating in rarefied social circles that include the ambassador that you brought into the conversation, as well as Chirac, Annan, etc... then we're talking about two different groups of people.
How would you like it if you said, "Rappers give blacks a bad reputation with all the drugs, arrests, and violence," and I turned around and said, "I disagree, I know a lot of black people, and they aren't all junkie criminals."
We would make better progress, if you would elaborate on and document what you are trying to say. If it is based on fact, I could understand and relate to it.
I am sorry your feelings are hurt.
Just go back and re-familiarize yourself with your first post to me. Then track the conversation through the thread.
If you don't spot where you went off the explicit track, then I can't do anything for you.
You began this conversation by asking me about the Syrian ambassador's response. If I'd seen it. I responded that I hadn't and tossed in a few generalizations about how "people like that" have certain opinions about Americans.
You responded by disagreeing and saying that they are jealous and intimidated. A conclusion that I disagree with. There is far too much contempt for our country in the public international discourse at the policy level for it to indicate that they're either jealous or intimidated. The tone is more like how one might address a mentally deficient, inbred cousin who by luck has a fortune. That's not jealousy. That's contempt.
I'll reiterate that I said, "People like that" in my first response to you. That establishes a very specific group of generalized persons using the pattern of the ambassador, based on the ambassador's response to the President's remarks. I'd already established that I hadn't heard the ambassador's comments before you brought it up, thus I used your paraphrase of her position.
After that, it appears you lost track of the specifics of the thread, and you started implying incorrectly that I was accusing all foreigners of holding those derogatory opinions of Americans. A position that I avoided through explicit declaration of the subjects of my ire.
When I go through the trouble of being explicit, I dislike having my words misconstrued to imply I've said something or hold opinions that I don't hold.
Where did you get that wild hair? Tell me so I can
avoid the area.
He said that Boy Assad has 'got to go'. Now one can say what one wishes about President Bush but when he says that sort of thing about foreign leaders it has a rather distinct tendency to actually occur.
He's pretty much two for two if you think about it. It wouldn't suprise me if Boy Assad was found by his aides whimpering underneath his desk with a large yellow stain in the nether regions of his pants after hearing Bush say that.
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No, I missed that. It is hard to hear. I do know, ever since I read Sharansky, that statements like that can really mean a lot to dissidents.
But I must say I honestly doubt there are many Syrian dissidents left. My money says they've all been killed long ago.
But I most sincerely hope that the President meant what he said and that there are plans in the works for a bit of 'regime change' in Syria.
You have no idea how much I hate Boy Assad and his bunch of proxie thugs Hizbollah. America in general and the USMC in particular owe them both some real personal style payback.
I want Assad dead.
I want his family dead.
I want his friends dead.
I want the friends of those friends dead.
I want the guy who cooked Assads breakfast dead.
I want the guy who cooked that guys breakfast dead.
I want Assads head on a pike outside the gates of Camp LeJeune NC. I want his corpse used by Marine Recruits for bayonet training.
I want what's left of the corpse fed to hogs. I want the hogcrap from those hogs fed to other hogs. Then I want those hogs slaughtered and the carcasses fitted with JDAM guidance packages and the whole mess dropped from American B-52s into mosques in Downtown Damascus during evening 'prayers'.
I want Hizbolla exterminated down to the last fighter, cook, clerk, jerk, teacher, sanitation worker, and financial donor.
I want their corpses buried face down with their feet pointed towards that stinking black rock they worship in a mass grave and covered with chitterlings. I want that grave marked in direct defiance of 'islamic law' with a 30 foot tall USMC emblem with an inscription in arabic that the US Marine Corps always pays its debts.
I want their childrens childrens children to quake in fear and their bowels to turn to liquid at the mere mention of the US Military.
But hey....that's just me.
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However, in a conversation that now seems very wise a woman I met on a Freeper cruise soon after 9/11 said that we would have to get the clerics under control. She was a Syrian/American concerned about the influence of clerics on her children.
In a manner of speaking I do. 241 of my brothers were murdered in Beirut in 1983 by the Assad regime using Hizbolla thugs to do it.
I'm still pretty pissed about it. Perhaps it clouds my judgement a bit, but I think whacking Assad and exterminating Hizbolla would not only be good for peace in the region but just the right thing to do, in a vast Karmic Wheel sort of a way.
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