{"id":280,"date":"2007-04-04T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/04\/oh-those-goofy-arabs\/"},"modified":"2007-04-06T17:54:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T22:54:10","slug":"oh-those-goofy-arabs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Oh, those goofy Arabs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s so nice that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is releasing those 15 British sailors and marines, but do we have to be treated to the theater he&#8217;s built up around it? For example, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,263924,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a> he lectured the British on sending a mother to his peninsula;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;How can you justify seeing a mother away from her home, her children? Why don&#8217;t they respect family values in the West?&#8221; he asked of the British government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s much better to stone your women to death,\u00c2\u00a0beat them and cut off parts of their anatomy. Now that&#8217;s family values.<\/p>\n<p>Across the plains, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,263864,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Pelosi was meeting with Bassar Assad<\/a>, who promised peace in our time;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We were very pleased with the assurances we received from the president that he was ready to resume the peace process. He&#8217;s ready to engage in negotiations for peace with Israel,&#8221; Pelosi said.<\/p>\n<p>She said the delegation conveyed to Assad &#8220;the importance of Syria&#8217;s role with Hamas in promoting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She did not reveal how Assad responded to the delegation&#8217;s message on Hamas and Hezbollah. Syria hosts the exiled leadership of Hamas, as well as other Palestinian radical groups, and is a major patron of Hezbollah.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure she didn&#8217;t reveal the reaction because 1) she didn&#8217;t dare mention Hamas or Hezbollah for fear of pissing off her allies in the region; or 2) Assad told her to shut up and she quickly complied.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But while the United States regards Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist groups, Syria insists that Hamas is a legitimate resistance movement working for Palestinian freedom and Hezbollah is a regular Lebanese political party.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure Pelosi agreed with Ashad that Hezbollah is just a political party and influenced Ashad to ship some of their spare missiles to Howard Dean so the Democrats could model themselves after Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Syria has praised Pelosi for defying the White House. The state-run Syria Times called her a &#8220;brave lady&#8221; and Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem was quoted as saying Pelosi and other members of Congress were &#8220;welcome&#8221; in Syria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There ya go &#8211; when a State-sponsor of terrorism praises your member of Congress, stand proud. I say we send a whole butt-load of them over there.<\/p>\n<p>Of course not to be outdone by Pelosi cavorting with a bunch of Ay-rabs, Fox news Channel reports that the House Armed Services Committee sent a &#8220;style guide&#8221; out for the Pentagon so they don&#8217;t confuse the linguine-spined Democrats\u00c2\u00a0who have to\u00c2\u00a0talk to hard-ass warrior-types;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;When referencing military operations throughout the world, please be as specific as possible. Please avoid using colloquialisms such as, &#8216;the war on terrorism, or the &#8216;Long War&#8217; Please do not use the term &#8216;global war on terrorism,&#8217; &#8221; according to the memo.<\/p>\n<p>[Republican John] Boehner accused Democrats of launching an &#8220;absurd effort to deny the fact that America is battling terrorism on a global scale,&#8221; according to a statement released Wednesday by his office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So gutless PC-speak has infiltrated the Congressional hearings. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/projects\/pdf\/HASC_Memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">style guide<\/a> in .pdf. Boehner sums it up nicely;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s no wonder Democrats don&#8217;t like the phrases &#8216;global War on Terror,&#8217; they have completely failed to take the threat of global terrorism seriously,&#8221; Boehner said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or anything else for that matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s so nice that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is releasing those 15 British sailors and marines, but &hellip; <a title=\"Oh, those goofy Arabs\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=280\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, those goofy Arabs<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}