A “New Middle East” So What’s New?

Dr. Robert D. Crane

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A “New Middle East” So What’s New?

by Dr. Robert D. Crane

  Bushspeak is really confusing.  As soon as he starts talking sense, President Bush blows it all by contradicting the normal meaning of his words.  Most of the people in the world would react immediately in full support of his July 29th message about people in the Middle East “suffering decades of tyranny and violence.”  Of course, they would think he is talking about the century of violence inaugurated by the founders of Israel. 

  Increasingly world opinion leaders are concluding that George W. Bush must have lived his life on the back side of the moon, that for six years he has been suffering from advanced autism, and that now he seems to be entering the end stage of hopeless dementia. 

  His chief diplomat, Condalezza Rice, has been shuttling around the world trying to sell a new goal for the current Middle East War.  This is “A New Middle East.”  This term was coined by Shimon Perez a decade ago at Oslo, which was a non-starter from the word go because it studiously postponed all the real issues of justice to the never-never land of the distant future.  Now Bush seems to be calling for a repeat performance, possibly with even more tragic results. 

  Those who do not see through the lens of justice as the governing paradigm for all other values are doomed to be perpetually blind as they grope toward the precipice while calling out plaintively for “freedom and democracy.”

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