tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post115767696037202591..comments2024-03-19T01:48:39.709+00:00Comments on Power and Control: Bidding WarM. Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09508934110558197375noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8282587.post-1157757978801195012006-09-08T23:26:00.000+00:002006-09-08T23:26:00.000+00:00FROM CAROL HERMANWith the arabs, there's always re...FROM CAROL HERMAN<BR/><BR/>With the arabs, there's always reality checks. (I learned this when so many promises came to Abbas. But the checks weren't in the mail.) The arabs are good at this. The cameras are always there when they make their announcements. But if you want the money. You have to look for the spigot from which it would flow. And, those aren't marked, exactly. <BR/><BR/>So a lot of this stuff is still just hot air.<BR/><BR/>Then? Well, there's the 10% Chirac gets. And, that's at the top. Then, there are the grifters in the middle, as well.<BR/><BR/>By the way. Nasrallah's still underground. He's afraid to come out. He's afraid Israel has a special laser light, attached to a drone. Just looking for him. <BR/><BR/>And, then? Those Shi'a? Who used to live in Lebanon? But their buildings are flattened like pancakes? (That's what happens when you don't have honest bulding inspectors. And, you can get away with NOT building to CODE.) Instead? The mullets say prayers when these things are opened. Then? Smart ones run like hell.<BR/><BR/>Which brings me to have to tell you that today there are about a million Lebanese Shi'a in SYRIA. Where they're trying to find Assad's pockets. Without much luck.<BR/><BR/>It's the Mideast. The truth is never told. But you know the worry? There's a fear out there that what the Palestinians "do" ... which is local mafia type stuff. Can take root ahead, in Lebanon. And, then it will be a "wild place." Long before the truth gets told.<BR/><BR/>Add to this all those foreigners coming in wearing Blue Hats. (Though I think a lot of them will try to get passes to visit Israel to spend their travel dollars, you just never know.) The french, meanwhile, will want a whole class of "bathing beauties" not usually found in the Mideast. Somebody's gonna have to send int he russian girls. (Where, again. Guess who'd come to the rescue? You didn't know? Israel has 3 million russian citizens these days. Just the ticket. On top of the rubble just created in Southern Lebanon will be a thriving black market business.) Almost too funny for words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com