Kofi Annan, Born-Again Crusader
Wanna know how much anti-Syrian momentum has built up after the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri?
I'll show you how much:
Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary-general, added his voice yesterday to American calls for Syria to pull out of Lebanon.
He warned the Syrians in an Arabic television interview that they would face "measures" - presumably some form of sanctions - if they did not pull their army out of Lebanon completely by April.
With pressure growing every day, Waleed al-Mualem, the Syrian deputy foreign minister, committed his country to further withdrawals, but failed to make a clear commitment to complete evacuation.
Hey, when even France is ahead of the UN on the Syria-must-get-the-hell-out-of-Lebanon-or-else curve, you know that Boy Assad is in some seriously deep camel dung.
What this tells me is that Annan, whose regime is drowning in appalling scandals of all shapes and sizes, is feeling almost as much heat as the Syrian dictator and is desperate to change the subject - so desperate that he's willing to get behind {GASP!} President Bush.
A foxhole conversion if there ever was one, of course. Annan isn't serious about actually doing anything to get Syria out of Lebanon that would actually get Syria out of Lebanon (i.e. military action) - Damascus has a seat on the f'ing Security Council, for heaven's sake. But to the coward, even personal pride and self-respect are subordinate to the overarching imperative of saving one's own ass.
Ol' Kofi has made that sour-milk-swallow. Now to see if Boy Assad can be "persuaded" to follow suit.
[Hat tip: Captain's Quarters]
I'll show you how much:
Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary-general, added his voice yesterday to American calls for Syria to pull out of Lebanon.
He warned the Syrians in an Arabic television interview that they would face "measures" - presumably some form of sanctions - if they did not pull their army out of Lebanon completely by April.
With pressure growing every day, Waleed al-Mualem, the Syrian deputy foreign minister, committed his country to further withdrawals, but failed to make a clear commitment to complete evacuation.
Hey, when even France is ahead of the UN on the Syria-must-get-the-hell-out-of-Lebanon-or-else curve, you know that Boy Assad is in some seriously deep camel dung.
What this tells me is that Annan, whose regime is drowning in appalling scandals of all shapes and sizes, is feeling almost as much heat as the Syrian dictator and is desperate to change the subject - so desperate that he's willing to get behind {GASP!} President Bush.
A foxhole conversion if there ever was one, of course. Annan isn't serious about actually doing anything to get Syria out of Lebanon that would actually get Syria out of Lebanon (i.e. military action) - Damascus has a seat on the f'ing Security Council, for heaven's sake. But to the coward, even personal pride and self-respect are subordinate to the overarching imperative of saving one's own ass.
Ol' Kofi has made that sour-milk-swallow. Now to see if Boy Assad can be "persuaded" to follow suit.
[Hat tip: Captain's Quarters]
posted by JASmius at 8:17 AM
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