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October 23, 2006
Why Does This Man Still Have A Job With The State Department?
Topics: Dhimmitude
No wonder Fernandez is a favorite with Al Jazeera whose deputy editor Aderrahim Foukara, has said, "As far as I am aware, he is the only Arabic speaker from the US government who appears on Al-Jazeera "Sometimes we'll even have him on three or four days in a row." And what about the fact that Fernandez' is membership in the Middle East Studies Association [MESA] whose anti-Americanism ironically extended to advising their members not to cooperate with the State Department and U.S. government, though it funds the organization?
Via CNN:
A senior State Department diplomat apologized Sunday for having told the Arab satellite network Al-Jazeera on Saturday that there is a strong possibility history will show the United States displayed "arrogance" and "stupidity" in its handling of the Iraq war.And this guy still has his job?"History will decide what role the United States played," he told Al-Jazeera in Arabic, based on CNN translations. "And God willing, we tried to do our best in Iraq."But I think there is a big possibility (inaudible) for extreme criticism and because undoubtedly there was arrogance and stupidity from the United States in Iraq."
Michele Malkin points to Andy McCarthy - who weighs in on Fernandez with, "American 'Stupidity' and 'Arrogance' in Iraq":
State's assessment from the senior diplomat responsible for conveying our position: The U.S. is arrogant and stupid, and what we need to pursue is the chatter course preferred by the Iraqi government. And, yes, that would be the same government whose thoroughly ineffective, Hezbollah-supporting, Iran apologist of a leader, Nouri al-Maliki, can't or won't crack down on Shiite militias -- particularly the one led by his political ally, Muqtada al-Sadr, who may now outpace al Qaeda and disgruntled Baathists among Iraq's countless destabilizers......Have mistakes been made in Iraq? Unquestionably. But the one thing those mistakes have surely not involved is insufficient deference to Muslim sensibilities. Indeed, the opposite is true. The administration is now paying dearly for subordinating military success against our enemies -- militant Islam and its abettors in Iran and elsewhere -- to political accommodations in pursuit of its Holy Grail of rapid democratic transformation in a land hostile to Western values.
That is not arrogance. It is hope borne of exuberance, however naïve it may be.
What clearly is stupidity, though, is having Alberto Fernandez as the public face of American diplomacy.
Michelle remarks, "Touche"; but my only thought is still - "Why is this guy not already an "ex" State Department official?
Posted by Richard at October 23, 2006 11:46 AM
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