Today, the American consolate in Benghazi was set ablaze leaving one dead and several injured, and the American embassy in Cairo was attacked by a mob. Our government's response so far has been to offer a vague apology regarding our "abuse" of free speech.
Israel is poised to attack Iran, but the U.S. president turned down an offer for a pow-wow with their Prime Minister, citing scheduling conflicts. He is booked for a David Letterman appearance, thankfully. Meanwhile, the new Egyptian government is setting up meetings with Iran. There's a lot of baggage between those two entities, but they have several shared interests and they seem to think a moment of import is at hand. Perhaps you could say the same about Obama and Letterman, but their "moment of import" will probably involve a joke about the new White House-branded micro-brew, and perhaps a few more toothless bites on that Root of All Evil, "Bain Capital."
The Arab Spring is turning into the Long Arab Winter before our eyes. It's tragic, but not very surprising. Israel is telegraphing a strike so obviously that a blind man could see it from space. With Syria in full meltdown, Egypt in the hands of Islamists, Iraq a factionalized mess and the world in the grips of a global recession, the odds of another world war are getting juicier by the nanosecond... but Nero is fiddling.
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Date: 2012-09-12 03:12 am (UTC)Israel is poised to attack Iran, but the U.S. president turned down an offer for a pow-wow with their Prime Minister, citing scheduling conflicts. He is booked for a David Letterman appearance, thankfully. Meanwhile, the new Egyptian government is setting up meetings with Iran. There's a lot of baggage between those two entities, but they have several shared interests and they seem to think a moment of import is at hand. Perhaps you could say the same about Obama and Letterman, but their "moment of import" will probably involve a joke about the new White House-branded micro-brew, and perhaps a few more toothless bites on that Root of All Evil, "Bain Capital."
The Arab Spring is turning into the Long Arab Winter before our eyes. It's tragic, but not very surprising. Israel is telegraphing a strike so obviously that a blind man could see it from space. With Syria in full meltdown, Egypt in the hands of Islamists, Iraq a factionalized mess and the world in the grips of a global recession, the odds of another world war are getting juicier by the nanosecond... but Nero is fiddling.