Friday, February 11, 2011

Smart Power MLXXXX

VDH.

4 comments:

Tecumseh said...

At a Capitol Hill hearing, Leon Panetta, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, told lawmakers there was "a strong likelihood that Mubarak may step down this evening." Mr. Panetta clarified later in the hearing that the CIA had received reports that Mr. Mubarak would "possibly" resign ...

It's all Rotterian \lesssims and \approx. That's what happens when you don't deal in \CDs...

Tecumseh said...

From VDH: So Mubarak is/is not a dictator, must leave now/yesterday/sometime soon as he serves as sort of a figurative leader/a critical transition player/a suspicious counter-revolutionary inasmuch as the U.S. must lay down conditions/advise only/respect Egyptian prerogatives, as private conversations with Egyptians are spilled to the press, Obama suggests the Cairo desire for freedom somehow channels his own support, and Biden, Clinton, and Obama contradict one another hourly.

It's all making sense now!

Tecumseh said...

Parting shot: "'They may be talking about democracy but they don't know what they're talking about and the result will be extremism and radical Islam,'" he quoted Mubarak as saying.

Counterpoint: Jimmah, tautologically.

Tecumseh said...

Steyn & Kelly.