Posted on 11/29/2001 5:39:08 AM PST by newsperson999
The U.S. State Department has long been a preserve for snobs and a culturing place for political correctness and other forms of smug Ivy League bigotry. Many of its elite corps are out-patients from the Kennedy School of Condescension. The "staties", as they are sometimes called, consider themselves the carriage trade of the Washington bureaucracy. The Middle East is where these diplomatic tactical twerps like to go "slumming." This slum-of-choice is a lateral move, in that Washington D.C. itself is a Palestine of political parasites.
It is the unwritten fiat at the U.S. State Department, before you earn your diplomatic pouch you must first learn to "make nice" with Yasser Arafat who they consider to be a kind of "user-friendly" terrorist. At the Department, Arafat is the "stray" that has been found and adopted as the mascot of the New World Order. In pursuit of legitimizing him, the State Department refers to him as "Chairman Arafat" - although after he's been sitting in a chair for any length of time it is necessary to take it to any empty lot and burn it. Among the assorted envoys and envoy-ettes, support for this slob supercedes devotion to American interests.
Embracing Arafat is their article of faith. When they recite the Pledge of Allegiance, his name is inserted instead of the flag. In fact, before you can be hired by the State Department you must first demonstrate an ability to identify Yasser Arafat's ass on a silhouette chart. All "staties" must be indoctrinated in the dogma that Israel is an upstart nation, and its determination to retaliate for terrorist attacks is impolite and presumptuous. Arafat's machinations dovetail neatly into the carefully manicured designs which State Department pantywaists find so cunning. These pragmatic ciphers know sucking up to Yasser Arafat is the surest way to achieve, not peace in the Middle East, but upward mobility for themselves in the Washington bureaucracy CLICK FOR FULL ARTICLE
When I was in the military, we called them "The Lace-Panty Brigade".
Although this is supposed to be a satire piece of commentary, I'd just always presumed, upon the basis of what I'd read in that book, that American intelligence agencies had reached the same conclusion in their research as the Mossad profilers had. AND, therefore, it is NOT that Arrafat is beloved by State, much less by run of the mill average Americans, but rather that any other possible head of the Palestinians was deemed to be dangerously extremist, if not outright clinically pathological.
Therefore, on the basis of what I read almost 20 years ago, I do NOT find much humor, much less any factual analysis of the predicament that staties find themselves in, in regards to Arafat -- who seems to be the best possible leader in a field of candidates who seem to inordinately dangerous. Sorry I don't have the title of the book - it has, afterall, been almost decadeS since I read it.
AND, too... I am admittedly inordinately suspicious of the press... even the political cartoons... everybody's got their point, and prolly not in accordance with my own.
AND, see, I have been VERY concerned not only about the American FBI/CIA/NSA... but also, I am distressed about the state of American Foreign Relations -- the ENTIRE FIELD... which I actually know nothing about... and frankly am scared to... as I intuitively predict that any study of this will provoke me to wretch, and I'm not ready to study up on the details... I'm simply certain there's PLENTY egregiously wrong, something that has distressed me a LOT these past two months.
Now... where's that coffee...
Seriously, I am not sure if the Mossad figured Arafat to be the most sane, but rather the most malleable & gullible. As the saying goes "they never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity..." I think of it slightly differently. The man is just not a good chess player. He falls into virtually every trap the Israelis lay for him.
And to at least every single one of the other 3.2 billion of the world's polpulation whose IQs falls in the "above-average" group!
(Fire)Hats off to Norman Liebman!
The man tells it like it is...
Just give the west bank back to Jordan and Gaza back to Egypt and build a big wall at the border.
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