May 26, 2002
From the desk of Mindles H. Dreck:Drain the Swamp
Maureen Dowd quotes a European reporter in her column today:
A German reporter advised the president to "look beyond Iraq" and see that "Syria, too, in U.S. terminology, is a state sponsor of terrorism" and that "Saudi Arabia is anything but a democratic pluralistic society."As a European ambassador to NATO said about Bush's fixation with Saddam, "You Americans want to kill the crocodile, and we think it's safer to drain the swamp."
OK, that sounds constructive. How do we drain the swamp? Sanctions? U.N. resolutions? Turning the other cheek? I'll be the first one to jump on the Anti-Syria bandwagon, but what do you propose we do? Aren't they on the security council? (thanks guys!).
The problem is the swamp is already drained and the crocs are roaming around.
The rest is the ususal Dowd "Fast Chinese Restaurant Punditry" - combine #2 meat and #4 sauce to make "spectacular paradise punditry" entree #19!
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