A year of living dangerously: Osama the crafty mouse vs GWB, of little intelligence, less knowledge

Al Ahram ^ | 1-16-03 | Hassan Nafaa

[SJackson]

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[jammer]

Who knows how smart Bush is? He's a hell of a lot smarter than his critics think, but not as smart as the bots think. But, who cares? First, he is smart enough to surround himself with smart people. Second, how smart does one have to be to say, "Let the bombing commence now?"

[jammer]

And THAT's even from one who is skeptical about the Iraq invasion.

[Restorer]

From the outset the protagonists have sought to set the international scene for a confrontation between the Christian West and Muslim East, with Bush and Bin Laden the self-appointed and sole spokesmen for the respective sides.

Half right. GWB has done everything possible to remove religion from the equation. Probably more than makes real sense.

OBL wants to turn it into Christian vs. Muslim, of course. He should remember the old saying about being careful what you wish for...

[facedown]

Developments over the previous year have demonstrated that Washington is not so much concerned with eliminating the sources of international terrorism as it is with using terrorism to tighten its grip over the entire world and to eliminate all opposition to its policies.

This "writer" is a paranoid schizophrenic.

[r9etb]

OBL wants to turn it into Christian vs. Muslim, of course.

I think that's pretty much the salamikaze party line. Somebody posted something from Hamas or Hezballah (sp? ahhh, who care's if it's not spelled right) a while back, and they actually called us "Crusaders."

Personally, I kinda like the idea of being a Crusader....

[Coop]

So if Dubya is dumb after not catching him in ~15 months, then how dern stupid is the Impeached Rapist for not getting him in 8 years?

[ASA Vet]

The writer is professor of political science at Cairo University

Here's yours professor.

[Brian Allen]

If there was ever a piece deserving of a half page BARF ALERT, this obscene diatribe is it!

"'Professor' of 'political science?'" [In a dictatorship?]

This moron's sons and daughters must all dance horizontally for the entire human resources department at cairo u.

[anniegetyourgun]

Nominated for most insightful comment of the year.

[Redleg Duke]

Sure makes one wonder about the college acreditation process, doesn't it?

[HardStarboard]

>>>So if Dubya is dumb after not catching him in ~15 months, then how dern stupid is the Impeached Rapist for not getting him in 8 years? <<<

Hey - thats not fair. Clinton wasn't trying to catch him. Both he and my brilliant Senator, Mz Patty Murray, were watching him build schools, feed the people, and enforce the rule of sharia law in Afganhastan. How were they to know he didn't like us?

[anniegetyourgun]

"For Washington to persist in its current policy will lead the world down the same path Hitler led it, but with far more lethal power at its disposal."

Why is it that those who hate the Jews the most are the first to compare the US/Bush with Hitler?

[jpl]

This article is pretty hilarious considering that President Bush is alive and in charge, and Bin Laden is one with the dirt. These Islamist losers are much funnier when they're putting out phony audiotapes.

[Howlin]

Watch The History Channel Sunday night at 6 PM.......see what you think.

[Billthedrill]

The author is living in an intellectual world that is about 20 years out of date. That was when we used to care about the moral opinions of Arab commentators who condemn any violence but their own, any hatred but their own, any religious movement but their own. This was a dwindling force even before 9/11; it is virtually non-existent now.

I think the full validity of this fellow's argument is best illustrated by the fact that his "clever mouse" that cannot be caught is, in reality, a festering, maggot-covered corpse somewhere in the Afghan bush. His geopolitical thesis has a similar problem.

[null and void]

I smell ozone...

[beckett]

The author is illustrative of the quality of teachers in the Arab world, and as such helps us understand why these backward countries are in the shape they are in.