" It's Your World "

I tuned into the Dali Bama's speech at the United Nations today just as he was naming The Two Issues Creating "Instability" in the Middle East: Iran's nuclear program and the Israeli-Arab conflict. Whether the purpose of drawing this apparent equivalence was to inflate the significance of the "palestinians" on the world stage or to diminish the significance of Iranian nuclear weaponization cannot be known but either way, I found it shocking.

Later I heard him issue the usual platitudes about Israel's security AND/BUT then he repeatedly referred to "The Occupation" ... and he wasn't talking about the Arabs in east Jerusalem.

I have a full plate on the homefront right now so I'm not going to delve into all aspects of the speech. I would simply note, as others have, that it included a pronouncement that the "world is more stable than it was five years ago."

Oh yeah?

Islamist anti-American riots, September 2012:

 

And finally, the real 'money quote' for Americans -- 

 In sum,

the United States has a hard-earned humility

 when it comes to our ability to determine events

inside other countries.

AND/BUT he believes "that America is exceptional."  Go figure.

 

Comments

[bunuel]

what did we do (wrong) to merit this thing???