Thursday, November 23, 2006

Send fruits and vegetables for Fu'ad Sanyurah. This is a bizarre editorial in the New York Times. I mean, the paper wants so bad to express support for Fu'ad Sanyurah, but did not know how to express it. Look at this: "The United States and the international community must now rally to support Prime Minister Fouad Siniora — with cash, security advisers, and anything that might help him and his government survive." What else should we wend him? Does he like snacks? How about new shoes? And then the paper offers a threat to Hizbullah: "Hezbollah must be told that it will be shunned if it tries to grab power through further violence or intimidation." Shunned? Hizbullah is not shunned already by the US? What does that mean, and why would the threat of shunning really influence Hizbullah? And then the writer seems to be thinking aloud: "We would urge Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to go immediately to Beirut, except we’re not sure she would be welcome after President Bush’s failure last summer to restrain Israel’s disastrous air war." So do you want her to be sent or not, o writer of the New York Times?