Innocents Abroad or Whatever
June 28th, 2002 - 12:28 am
In a Saudi-controlled Arab News exclusive, we get to feel what it’s like to be a terror-sponsor abroad:
Osama Bin Laden should be proud of having succeeded in erecting a thick wall of mistrust and suspicion between the Americans and us. It is an achievement that has pleased a broad base of extreme rightist Americans as well as the pro-Israeli lobby who are now doing everything possible to plug any cracks that might appear in the wall and to prevent it from coming down.
However, Bin Laden and the Israeli lobby notwithstanding, we have to deal with the United States, as an important world power despite our wide differences with it over its Middle East policy. America continues to enjoy a substantial share in our country
Aside from comparing some politicos to the Taliban, it seemed for the most part pretty fair and reasonable.
The author clearly thought the American way of doing things was more successful than the Arab way.
Especialy hopeful:
In New York, it is an all-year season. It is thus necessary to ask ourselves in which camp we want to be: a Kandahar-Taleban camp that relies on UN handouts or a New York camp that, right now, has the upper hand and is ready to give others part of its surplus?