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Did anyone happen to catch Iraq's ambassador to the U.N., Mohammed Aldouri, crying on camera yesterday? "I watch what you watch on television", he said," and it breaks my heart."
In an early interview with Arabiya, he said "I am leaving because I don't think I can work in a country that is invading Iraq, destroying, killing and demolishing whatever it wants." |
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Crying openly, Aldouri said, "It is a country that occupies Iraq from the north to the south, from the east to the west. I don't think this occupying country will allow me enough freedom to work at the United Nations." |
In my opinion, a crying man evokes a pretty powerful emotional response. When a woman cries we've got a problem that requires immediate attention. When a man cries I know that something tragic has occurred. Now I duly realize that some of you (I hear my phone ringing already) are of the opinion that that sounds pretty damn sexist. But, for now, this is my blog.
Let me say this one last time (because, frankly this subject has been all but blogged to death). The ex-ambassador does have a point. We're now America the bully.
If, and that's one big if, but if the final objective was the removal of one single bad guy, not only are we bullies but we've definitely demonstrated some overkill here. Thusly, we appear pathetically impotent as well when the plan(?) was exactly the opposite.
Now obviously no one will debate that Saddam was not a very nice guy. The congratulatory American news shots of Saddam's vilification are all too evident suggesting perhaps the justification of his removal. (I had to chuckle when one Iraqi(?) while in progress of destroying one of the ubiquitous Saddam idols, actually appeared to look back to assure the camera was still focused on him before resuming.)
The ambassador cries because he and his country have just suffered one of the great humiliations in recent history. And don't think for one second that the rest of the world hasn't taken notice. (More on the impending European summit later. No link yet. Stay tuned.) He cries because he is perhaps preeminently aware of the changes undeniably forthcoming. He cries because he is unaware the fate of his family. He cries because all of his professional efforts have proved frustratingly ineffectual.
If this man's crying was an act, give him an Emmy.
A piece of advice Mr. Ambassador. Syria probably wouldn't be my first choice for relocation.
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