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L'Affair Rolling Stan: The View from Beirut
July 6, 2010 | Posted by Abu Muqawama - 9:25pm | 15 Comments
Issandr sent me this picture, taken with his camera phone, from Librairie Antoine on Hamra Street in Beirut, figuring it would crack me up. It did.
They say the wall poster
They say the wall poster makes you look as if you'd just gained 15 pounds. Darned if it doesn't.
Translation for us
Translation for us still-aspiring-arabic-speakers?
Well, what the fuck does it
Well, what the fuck does it say?
Cracked you up? Can't anyone
Cracked you up? Can't anyone play this game?
"طالبا تسجل نقاطا حاسمة في حرب العصابات" == "Taliban [students] score decisive points in the guerrilla war"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kat8I5UM_Vs (Lockheed Martin, HULC)
Ex, what the fuck is this all about? I'd like to slap some sense unto Jim Ni's brain bucket.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3CzYw5-qdA (Grizzly Suit)
Anyone remember that?
OK, call me silly, but in
OK, call me silly, but in this caricature President Obama looks like Hugo Chavez, General Petraeus looks like Doug Macgreggor, and General McChrystal looks like Ollie North.
gian
Someone should tell the
Someone should tell the president to go easy on the roids...
The joke is, if the world
The joke is, if the world did not buy their oil
...............they would not have the money to print this stuff.
We stupid.....have you burned your VISA yet? No?....you stupid. We can thank you for providing the money for the nice poster...keeping the banks an oil guys in money.....think about it.
Most powerful force on the planet is the American consumer.
are those stars falling off
are those stars falling off his shoulders?
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The gist of the article is
The gist of the article is that the "musical chairs" among the generals is proof of the American failure to sell democracy in Baghdad and Kabul, but lays the blame on the fact that you can't have "democracy" without "democrats", which is a cultural, educational, and generational issue. "Ballot boxes" in Afghanistan instead strengthened drug barons, tribal sheikhs, the Taliban, and other "Middle Ages groups".
The article relies heavily on de Toqueville's "Democracy in America", pointing out de Toqueville's observation that justice is a necessary condition for democracy to thrive, as it prevents the spread of misrepresentations and oppressions. It ends by calling on Lebanon and the Arab world to take de Toqueville's prescriptions as the basis of the modern state.
@Zak: if by "their oil", you are referring to Lebanon, from whence al-Hawadeth is published, I believe Lebanon officially exports zero barrels of oil, so you might reconsider your analysis.
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