The Mood - 2

The optimism I had flying around this afternoon, when I dropped a comment about Jamal's entry , hit rock bottom as I was reading the news from Libnan. What I like about Joseph Samaha, of Al-akhbar, is his simplicity in breaking down a complicated issue. Check out his latest one (sorry!! arabic only). He does not yell, call names or attack anyone (not viciously anyway). Forget NBN, NewTV, LBC and most definitely Future TV; they are all an insult to anyone's intelligence, but I have to admit, I still pay them visit every once in a while, with the exception Future TV, to get feel of whats going on.

Going back to Mr Samaha, his article today was amazing... amazingly depressing that is, and it took me 15 minutes of blindly staring at the screen to get myself to click for the next article.

In brief, Condy and Georgi are leading a counter-attack :

1. $10 billion to Afghanistan.
2. more billions to Iraq (which they will collect later, and we all know how)
3. An end to the negotiations in Palestine, and lot of $$$ to rebuild Abbas's own security forces, slowly but steadily for the next two years. (and to be honest, I don't know whats there to negotiating, they don't have anything yet!!!!)
4. More US escalation towards Iran, mainly in Iraq.
   
5. And most importantly, They are donating more billions of $$$$$$$$ to the........Lebanese prime minister. who is known for his transparency, honesty and decency during his previous years. He gracefully smiles as he sit at the right hand side of President Jacques Chirac. Then, at a press conference, he address th Lebanese people with his his usually sweet talk.
   

An offensive, lead by the "Bush and Allies L.L.C", and used as infantry (willingly and necessarily.. unwillingly) are the "Moderate Arab's" and the transparent , honest decent people like PM Saniora and our brothers in Fatah to lead us into a more "democratic" and economically prosperous future. Then we will all live, democratically, under the watchful eyes of the kings of Arabia and we will all know where our money spent.

All of this outside aid, and then minister Ahmad Fatfat, PM Sanior, Jounblat and the rest of the gang of elitist and warlords will disgustingly throw statements on the air, demanding that Lebanon be left out of international and regional conflict and "let it not be a battle field for other countries wars"

A sad thing that what is happening!!!!

and to make things even worse; a friend sent me this surreal and idealistically depressing video.

All of that, and my boring Friday night has not even started......