Foolish and dangerous
by Max Hastings
Guardian [UK]
08/14/06
Bush's belief in a worldwide Islamist conspiracy is foolish and dangerous. George Bush sometimes sounds more like the Mahdi, preaching jihad against infidels, than the leader of a western democracy. In his regular radio address to the American people on Saturday he linked the British alleged aircraft plotters with Hizbullah in Lebanon, and these in turn with the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. All, said the president of the world's most powerful nation, share a 'totalitarian ideology,' and a desire to 'establish a safe haven from which to attack free nations.' Bush's remarks put me in mind of a proverb attributed to Ali ibn Abu Talib: 'He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere'...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1843841,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Guardian [UK]
08/14/06
Bush's belief in a worldwide Islamist conspiracy is foolish and dangerous. George Bush sometimes sounds more like the Mahdi, preaching jihad against infidels, than the leader of a western democracy. In his regular radio address to the American people on Saturday he linked the British alleged aircraft plotters with Hizbullah in Lebanon, and these in turn with the insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. All, said the president of the world's most powerful nation, share a 'totalitarian ideology,' and a desire to 'establish a safe haven from which to attack free nations.' Bush's remarks put me in mind of a proverb attributed to Ali ibn Abu Talib: 'He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere'...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1843841,00.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 14. Aug, 14:14
