May 18, 2005
Arab Spring Update
The freedom train rolls into Syria: President for life "lil buddy" Bashar Assad announces free municpal elections, the legalization of political parties, and a free market economy.
Our prediction still stands: he'll be practicing opthamology full-time on the Riviera full time by the end of the summer.
Or be dead. One or the other.
I'm sure from the bowels of his government-funded mad scientist's liar, LBBuddy is spitting Mountain Dew through his nose, trying to blame this somehow on Halliburtonstarbucksbarnesandnoblegeneraldynamics or something.... It's like the scene towards the end of Ten Commandments, where he's Yul Brenner in that cute little skirt, and he's laid the dead body of his ideology across the lap of the cold stone statue of Noam Chomsky....
Posted by Steve at May 18, 2005 09:11 AMSadly, it's diet Cherry Coke now (diet MD is an abomination). I would still argue there is little evidence this is about building democracy and lots of evidence it is about securing oil assets for the next 50 years. Otherwise our current stance towards Venezuela is a bit baffling...
Posted by: LB buddy at May 18, 2005 10:23 AM
