GEORGE MITCHELL TO RESIGN?

On December 18, Le Figaro’s George Malbrunot reported a European diplomat as saying that former U.S. Senator George Mitchell

“is disappointed, he [Mr. Mitchell] has the impression that [President] Obama has used him.”



(My translation from French: “George Mitchell est decu, il a l’impression qu’Obama l’a instrumentalise.”)

FLASHBACK

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(12/22/09 UPDATE: Al-Malaf quotes an Iraqi official as saying that what lies behind Iran's take-over of the Iraqi oil field is Iran's dissatisfaction that in the last Iraqi allotment of oil contracts to foreign companies, no oil contract was given to any Iranian company. I'm skeptical. The message could hardly be to the Iraqi government. If the message in fact is about oil, then I would say it is a message to Big Oil and its Home Countries: Do not expect an easy time in Plantation Iraq for as long as Iran is being strangled.)


NOTE:

The recent incursion into Plantation Iraq by Iranian troops - - the fleeting take-over of the oil field - - and the bombings should be seen (in part, I’m not hedging - - see other posts) as a message by the Iranians to the Israel-Anchored Reluctant Ones.

The message:

Without a settlement with us, Iran wouldn't be about to make it easy for you (the Israel-Anchored Reluctant Ones) to leave Iraq so that U.S. troops would no longer be hostage (to us) and would therefore have a freer hand on Iran -- in war and in sanctions.

Nor would we be about to allow you to withdraw from the cities and remain in bases/fortresses waiting for the propitious moment to attack Iran. You "leave" (and withdraw into fortresses away from the cities) and we'd make sure you’d have to return to those cities.

We will do whatever it takes to keep you here, in full - - and not at the level of troops you chose. No exit without cooperating with us. We want you to stay. We love you.

Here’s the flashback:


TIME: ON WHO’S SIDE IS IT?

But, to the Iranians and the Syrians, it’d be dangerous to allow the [Israel-Anchored] reluctant ones to have it both ways: to free 130,000 U.S. troops so they may focus on Iran, all of this while keeping Iraq as [an Israel-Anchored] reluctant plantation - - at worst for Iran: as a ready base for U.S. troops for their eventual assault on Iran; at best for Iran, as a neutral neighbor in the confrontation/coming war between Iran and the [Israel-Anchored] reluctant ones.

( . . . )

At one level, not the most significant, the bombings say that Iran had given up on Maliki as trusted liaison between themselves and the [Israel-Anchored] reluctant idiots. But it could be not Maliki’s fault. It’s likely and mostly the fault of the [Israel-Anchored] reluctant ones. These had renewed their hostility towards Iran and Syria. The bombings seem to say that the Iranians and the Syrians have yet a new task: to tame yet another bunch of [Israel-Anchored] idiots, this time the reluctant. (Remember the [Israel-Anchored] harmful idiots?) So Iran activated its people to help topple Maliki. One result: elements within the Iraqi security establishment, likely close to the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq (ISCI), the former Badr Brigade, staunch allies of Iran and eminently displeased by Maliki’s sweep of the provincial elections and rising popularity, make way for the Baathist/Islamist bombers of the two ministries.


Monday, August 31, 2009.

AFTER THE RETREAT: HOW TO EMACIATE THE STATE THE ISRAEL-ANCHORED ONES HAD BUILT IN THEIR ISRAEL-INSPIRED IRAQI PLANTATION

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First I should tell you that I stand by my analysis in the last post. Events since have shown me that the analysis is more solid than I had once thought.

MALIKI IS GASPING FOR DEAR (POLITICAL) LIFE

Something new has come up, though it’s too early to draw conclusions; but here it is, anyway:

Prime Minister Maliki recently headed (or is heading) to the Country of Kurdistan. The purpose of his visit, it is said, is to merge the Peshmerga into the “national defense apparatus.” He would reclaim, too, the money that the Country of Kurdistan has been collecting in customs duties and other taxes.

I’m skeptical.

Again, it’s too early to reach conclusions. But, since I don’t have an Editor, I will.

I think Maliki is heading (or already has headed) to the Country of Kurdistan to mobilize the Kurdish army to come down from the mountains and help him out. It turns out that Maliki can’t trust his own security apparatus: SCIRI’s people within “his” security apparatus are, it seems, in total alliance with the Baath A.K.A. Sunni Islamists. (Ammar al-Hakim has been to Damascus recently and met with Bashar al-Asad)

As I’ve speculated in a much earlier post (“Who Did it? Plantation Iraq Pays the Price for the Reluctance of the Reluctant Ones” August 31, 2009), the SCIRI people within the security establishment are easing the way to the Baath-Sunni Islamist alliance to reach government buildings and blow them up.

Maliki, it turns out, is more lame than the ducks my friend Harry shoots on the Eastern Shore, when he’s not missing. (I'm so unsure about this entire sentence.)

Maliki is hopeless.

THEY ALL TREK TO EGYPT WHEN IN TROUBLE

He recently flew to Cairo and met with President Mubarak. Useless. Egypt can’t send troops anywhere lest these turn Islamist faster than Maliki can say ouch. Ouch.

Besides, Saudi Arabia is in on the plan to emaciate the Israel-inspired Plantation state
(1) that is bringing in Big Oil,
(2) to up the production level in Iraq to ten million bpds,
(3) to impoverish the Saudis (and Iran! and me who has money in oil stocks, damn it!) as a consequence,
(4) and to give Israel’s Boys in Washington D.C. yet more power
a. over them and
b. the Arab nation and
c. the Muslim World.
(d. and China!)

No can do, says the Egyptian President. I'm just here. I want to build a wall around Gaza. That's what I do. Too, don't you forget: I have to respect Saudi wishes, if you know what I mean.

ROW, ROW, ROW, TO BAGHDAD WE GO. ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?.

Will the Peshmerga heed Maliki's call and head down to Baghdad? I doubt it. They’d be crazy to do it. All they want is Kirkuk. Baghdad, in the age of the New Israel-Anchored Iraqi Plantation - - well, it's just so far away.

Not to mention that we have to keep an eye on Turkish troops. Yes sir.

LEVERAGE: WILL ARAB SYRIA BE ABLE TO FOIL THE ASSAULT ON OPEC/SAUDI ARABIA AND THE PROMISED STRANGULATION (THROUGH PLANTATION IRAQ) OF IRAN?

D R A F T

ARAB SYRIA: WHY IS IT SO GODDAM ARAB?

Arab Syria might seem an enigma to many. But a an eminently-non-disciplined perspective, as I intend for this essay, might shed some light on the subject.

Let me posit the following:

1. Arab Syria, unlike say African Egypt, couldn’t shed its Arab identity even if it wanted. For a number of reasons:

a) Arab Syria is the heart of Bilad al-Sham (The Lands of Damascus), historically Sunni and Arab. These Bilad stretch outward in so many directions and reach into the heart of Arab Islam: the Hijaz - - Mecca and Medina - - and into Arab Yemen.

b) Inhabited by many minorities (Alawites, various sects of Christians, Druze, Kurds, and Armenians), and Arab Sunni in its majority, Arab Syria by necessity has to remain Arab - - to keep the peace among the minorities, Arab and not, and between the minorities and the Sunni Arab majority. The Arab cultural identity is the bridge among all of these. Arab culture, literature, art, and defense of the Arab identity and of the Arab lands are by (iron- clad) necessity Arab Syria’s way to keep the peace within itself. The examples of disintegration when that identity is shed sit geographically on two sides of Arab Syria’s borders, if only to remind Arab Syria of what might happen to it:

i. Lebanon, which civil war was in good part (only in good part) a miscalculation by the Israel-Anchored Ones (what’s new?) some of whose Christian leaders tried to take it the “Jewish state” way - -to form an exclusively “Christian state;” and

ii. Iraq: the victim (in a hugely significant way) of the terrific power Israeli-American institutions and strategists possess in Washington, D.C. - - to motivate-and-direct the foreign-and-military policy of the United States in the Arab nation and the Muslim World - - and now towards China. (For the latter, see prior post, “How to Scratch Away at the Litter Box: The Israel-Anchored Reluctant Ones Bully china.”) Thanks to Israel’s Boys terrific influence in directing the U.S. government policy in the Arab nation and the Muslim World, Iraq’s Kurds finally are able to boast a de facto ethnically-exclusive state a la Israel, Kurdish as Jewish, one that is more powerful than the disintegrated states south of it in the rest of Plantation Iraq - -the Arab Sunni and the Arab Shia.

b) The two illustrations of disintegration (Lebanon and Iraq) bring out yet another factor that accounts for Arab Syria’s stubborn Arab nationalism:

The fact that the Israel-Anchored institutions of the United States, on the way to dominate on behalf of themselves-as-Anchored-to-Israel, will use (as would any colonial or conquering power) any sectarian-or-religious division to break apart countries. To make the point: If the harmful Idiots AKA Reluctant Ones were spreading across the Arab nation, calling for such things as the unity of this Arab nation and the necessity for an Arab common market, without direct military conquest, they may be able to spread and dominate way more easily. I would dare say, they likely would be welcomed. Or I should say “would’ve been” since, as things stand now, it’ll be too little too late, as the Islamic identity seems to prevail in Western Asia and the presence and conquest by Christian U.S. troops keeps that Islamic identity thriving.


2. Protecting the Arab identity is significantly determined by the need to defeat Israel’s schemes on Arab lands, water, and Arab unity. In other words, you can’t be Arab (and keep Arab Syria united) if you allow the Israelis (and their Diaspora institutions, especially in the lands of the Harmful Idiots and the Reluctant Ones, to have their way against the Palestinians, the Syrian, and the other Arabs. This entails the following:

a) Arab Syria, unlike African Egypt, could not sign a separate peace treaty with Israel. The Palestinians are Arab and fall within the Arab consensus that keeps Syria united. The Syrians, therefore, couldn’t quit on the Palestinians and not have that put a major dent in their Arabism and likely destabilize their own country. (Jordan, Arab, was able to sign because its signing had buttressed the separation between Palestinian and Jordanian, benefiting the regime, while affirming that the moral, historical, and financial responsibility for the theft of Palestinian land and nationhood falls on those who committed that theft: the Israelis, their Diaspora, and the Europeans - - and now the Americans. What’s ingenious is that the closeness of the Jordanian state to Israel forecloses one option Israel dies to execute: the Transfer.)

b) Arab Syria, via Arab nationalism, can project power.


c) Arab Syria features a class of elite that is as sophisticated as was Arab Iraq’s—before the Diaspora institutions put an end to that country to replace it with a Plantation for Big Oil and Bechtel-like outfits. This elite isn’t about to allow a Jewish-American elite (or those associated with these, even if Muslim) to dominate the elite circles in the Arab nation. Grant it, Syria’s Arab elite isn’t the only one fearful of that threat. Other Arab elite (and now Turkish) share that concern. Call this concern a part-and-parcel of protecting the Arab identity.

Besides, to the Syrian elite - -and now even to the Chinese (see prior post, “Scratching Away at the Litter Box…”) - - the continued success of the Diaspora elite in Plantation Iraq (the Diaspora elite already had scored success when it had eliminated and dismantled Arab Iraq, but more success seem to loom on the horizon with Big Oil’s rush which would fund the state the Israel-Anchored Ones had built in Plantation Iraq) - - such continued success should bestow on the Diaspora elite yet more power in Washington, D.C. With more power, the Diaspora elite should possess yet more ability to influence the policy of the United States in the Arab nation and the Muslim World. Arab Syria ponders that, as do many among the Arab (and now Turkish) elite, both government and opposition. (You can spot this concern even in the cautious “establishment” press, e.g., Saudi.)

3. Syria as a cargo cult.

By succeeding against attempts to disintegrate it, most recently by Saudi Arabia (the Bandar bin Sultan faction) at the service of the Jewish Boys, Crusader, and Bald Samson, Arab Syria, as a state, has shown that it wouldn’t allow but the central government to be the recipient of cargo. (In the days when Saudi intelligence, on behalf of the Israel-Anchored Ones, was trying to disintegrate Arab Syria, I remember an incident where that intelligence service tried to pass on $50 million to one Syrian tribe.) Here’s one way Cargo Cult-ism works: If, for instance, Bashar al-Asad issues a threat from Tehran, that threat - - I suspect - - would cost Tehran a couple hundred million dollars. After all, Arab Syria as a state has to pay salaries.

(Another example of cargo cult-ism: Most recently, the Lebanese Christian leader Michel Aoun, who the Harmful Idiots and the Israelis betrayed as they had the Christians of Lebanon - -who had been fighting as a result of the Israel-centric schemes of the Harmful and Reluctant Idiots, and who is now allied to Syria, visited with Bashar al-Asad. My father asked me to speculate about his visit? My answer: Syria wants to assure Mr. Aoun that it’ll not return to the days when its main ally in Lebanon had been Waleed Jumblatt - - not even when Jumblatt’s son takes over the mantle of Lebanese Druze leadership - -not after Mr. Jumblatt had allied himself to the Jewish Boys, to Crusader, and to Bald Samson- -and likely had men of his visit Israel to scheme against Arab Syria. In addition, Mr. Al-Asad, now likely flush with Saudi money (see below), made a payment to General Aoun for the general to make payments to his organization. Cargo cults. My father chose not to hear that.)

BUT A QUALIFIED CARGO CULT

It’s important to stress that the cargo cult feature of Arab Syria’s identity doesn’t mean that Syria would shed that identity just because alternative payments, made say by the Israel-Anchored Reluctant Ones, are proposed. The nature of Arab Syria’s cargo cult-ism is to accept payments, even look for them, from those who would buttress its Arab identity not from those who would weaken that identity - - lest Syria fall victim to the state-of-disintegration that are Lebanon and the Iraqi Plantation of the Israel-Anchored Ones.

So Arab Syria can accept money from both Iran and Saudi Arabia at the same time. From Iran: to keep Hezbollah ready to deter Israel; from Saudi Arabia - -

Here’s my suspicion: Syria and Saudi Arabia –each for his reasons--are now allied to defeat the Shia state in Iraq. (IT’S ONLY A SUSPICION.)

You will ask: But what about Iran? Would it let Syria, its ally, work with Saudi Arabia to defeat the Shia State in Plantation Iraq?

My answer: All that Iran can ask of Syria is that Arab Syria remains the strategic depth for Hezbollah to deter Israel - -and to influence Lebanese politics to protect Hezbollah’s back. That’s mostly all.

And there may be a benefit for Iran in the sponsorship by the alliance of Saudi Arabia and Syria of Baathist leaders and Sunni Islamists, joined together, to defeat the Shia state—though, I admit, I’m now stretching things. By keeping the Shia state a failed state -- and not in any obvious or visible way because of Iran - - the Shia state would need Iran for as long as it exists. Not stretching things: Iran would want its people in government in Iraq, and Maliki has been deemed too fickle. Iran would want the SCIRI-Hakim clan - -though, I suspect that it would give up eventually on that clan, too, because that clan likely would be fickle as well. (By fickle I’m referring to the tendency of parties to be at the ready to be lured by the Israel-Anchored Ones.) Iran can try out proxies to its heart’s content. In the end I think it can only rely on the Sadrists - -however much it distrusts these for their Arabism. Syria and the Baath likely would get along best with the Sadrists, too, and not as well with the SCIRI crowd. That, too, might scare Iran off. The last thing Iran needs is yet another Arab nationalist state in Plantation Iraq. But Iran-being-strangled may not have the luxury of choices of proxies-and-friends anyway.

Since the Iraqi Sunnis chose to flee to Arab Syria (and not to the Land of Bandar bin Sultan, whose faction colluded with Israel and its Boys to totally disinherit the Arab Sunnis of Iraq and make them eat Israeli and Saudi Royal shit) Arab Syria has gained practically a nation-in-exile - -the Arab Iraqi Sunnis. Strangely enough, the Saudi King, who had so recently and obediently (likely on Mr. Bandar’s advice) colluded in the Jewish Boys’ plans to defeat the Arab Sunnis of Iraq, and whose intelligence services had worked so hard to disintegrate Syria, that Old King recently trekked to Damascus.

What was the Saudi King up to? I submit (it’s only a suspicion) he finalized and alliance with Arab Syria, not only for Arab Syria to mediate between him and Iran ( a conclusion of one of my prior posts) but, more importantly, to fund Syria’s effort (with Iran as silent partner of Syria’s—not of Saudi Arabia’s?) to defeat the state the Israel-Anchored Ones are building in Plantation Iraq. Saudi Money flowed to Arab Syria; it was welcomed. (Please remember: this is my analysis; I have no hard evidence.)

Arab Syria now sits pretty: Under the (indirect) protection of NATO, via Turkey, able to deter via Hezbollah, getting paid by Iran, getting paid by Saudi Arabia, and a key player in Plantation Iraq.

Talking about latitude and leverage!

STILL, THE QUESTION REMAINS: CAN IRAN, ARAB SYRIA, AND SAUDI ARABIA DEFEAT THE ISRAEL-ANCHORED ONES IN OCCUPIED IRAQ?

There’s a lot at stake, especially after Big Oil’s move onto the Iraqi landscape. For once, OPEC may see its demise or, if not, near-total control of it by the Israel-Anchored Ones - -via Plantation Iraq. If the Israel-Anchored Ones are able to spike Iraqi production to the promised 6-10 million bpd, OPEC would be finished. Busting OPEC finishes Saudi Arabia’s role as the Swing Producer. It’ll be the beginning of the end for its ruling family since the income of the Kingdom would at worst so diminish; at best the income of the Kingdom would vacillate at the whim of the Israel-Anchored Ones - -though it should NEVER return to anything close to what the kingdom currently makes. The Kingdom therefore will have to live on much less than it ever had since 1973. Politically, if Saudi Arabia had kissed the ass of Israel and its Diaspora in the recent past, it’ll have to hug that ass and suck in its farts once Iraq ups its production to six million bpds.

Iran is threatened (seemingly) even more. The Israel-Anchored Reluctant Ones have seduced Chinese, Russian and other non-Western oil companies by giving them a piece of the Plantation Iraq's oil. If stability asserts itself under the State the Israel-Anchored Ones had built in Plantation Iraq, the oil contracts of the Chinese and Russians should entice the two to join into the strangulation of Iran - - or, at least, not work against this strangulation. (Things are fuzzy about Russia. Cheaper oil through upped production in Plantation Iraq should diminish its income, too. I have my theory about what the Russians are up to; but it’s not for this space. As for China, it couldn’t afford to stay out of the Iraqi market; but would Iran remain its insurance policy against the schemes and ruses of the Israel-Anchored Ones? Likely.) In addition, allowing the Israel-Anchored Reluctant Ones such a free hand in Plantation Iraq (through the state they’re building) would mean that Arab Syria would be sandwiched between two enemies: Israel and Plantation Iraq.

We know that Arab Syria and Iran are strategic partners. I suspect that now Arab Syria and Saudi Arabia are partners, too, if only to defeat the state the Israel-Anchored Ones are building in Plantation Iraq. (I suspect, too, that the Israel-Anchored Ones are playing the Kurdish card to pressure Turkey to join in the strangulation of Iran. But Iran should take care of that likely by warring with the Kurds and coordinating with the Turks - - even the Generals, since I don't think these will ever return to an Israeli mold until they defeat the Country of Kurdistan - - against the Country of Kurdistan.)

The question remains: Will Arab Syria mend the rift between Iran and Saudi Arabia? Is it trying? Has it happened already, in secret? And are Saud al-Faisal’s recent statements to the contrary an act - - a ruse - -to keep the Israel-Anchored Ones self-satisfied while the Kingdom hedges its bets?

OIL RUSH TO PLANTATION IRAQ: WHOSE LIFE IS IT?

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A number of factors may explain the recent rush by Big Oil to Iraq.

It could be that Big Oil has assessed that, war-or-not, conventional-or-unconventional, its financial losses would be acceptable since the Iraqi government would take on so much of the cost: “They [Big Oil] saw that the contracts will actually generate quite a lot of revenue, You get full cost recovery and then a premium on every barrel,” said an expert to The Wall Street Journal. (“Big Oil Jumps for Licenses in Iraq,” Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, at B2.)

What stands out is the fact that Big Oil seems to be unconcerned at the possibility that Iran would retaliate against it in Plantation Iraq as a way of warring on sanctions imposed by the Israel-Anchored Reluctant Ones. One likely reason for Big Oil’s indifference: It could be that “cost-recovery” is such that Iranian retaliation would in the end mean losses and expenditures to the Iraqi government, hardly to Big Oil.

Theoretically (remember I base my analysis totally on newspaper articles and on an innate ability to read the sub-culture of Israel-Anchored Idiots) it could be that senior administration officials have assured Big Oil that the Iran crisis is on its way to resolution in the sense that no military confrontation is possible. But that couldn’t be - - both from a balance of power perspective (the U.S. having taken on the role of the once-Arab Iraq, the one defeated and dismembered by the Israel-anchored Harmful Idiots, as balancer of Iranian power) and based on the fact that the Israeli wing of the Reluctant Ones possesses near-total monopoly over U.S. foreign policy in Western Asia, the servile Arab nation in particular.

Alright then, war-or-no-war, the financial losses would be incurred by Plantation Iraq’s government and not by us, goes Big Oil’s thinking. Conclusion: We can rush over to the oil-rich Plantation.

But Iran knows that. Right?

Should the sanctions’ regime be tightened (see, for instance, Friday’s Washington Post article about Secretary of Defense Robert Gates promising that much), my assessment is that Iran should be expected to retaliate if only to force the issue. Only a fool would expect it to stand still, motionless, while it is being strangled. But where would it retaliate?

Its retaliation is unlikely to take place in Lebanon. (See this newsletter’s recent post, “Chance Encounters with the Body Snatchers . . .”) Nor in Palestine; Hamas and the other Palestinian nationalists in Gaza are more of an irritant to Our Beloved than a destabilizing threat. This is especially true since our ally, the Egyptian government, is intent on making these Iranian Arab proxies, A.K.A. Palestinian nationalists, eat shit. (Israel and Israel have anointed Egypt as Gaza’s overseer.) An irritant-under-siege hardly would be able to mount retaliation that counts.

Plantation Iraq therefore should be Iran’s most likely place for retaliation for the stricter sanctions. (No, it isn’t Yemen’s Saada; that’s kids playing.)

But we now know, as does Iran, that retaliating by blowing up Big Oil’s installations only hurts the Iraqi government, hardly Big Oil. It could be therefore that the retaliation of substance will be directed at Big Oil’s personnel.

But Big Oil’s smart analysts likely already have predicted that.

So how would Big Oil deal with this Iranian threat? My guess: Big Oil will flood its ranks in Plantation Iraq with disposable foreigners and Arabs.

“Oh, Iran - -Vigilantly-Frantic-and-Frantically-Vigilant Iran: A couple of contract clauses should make our foreign and Arab personnel in Plantation Iraq utterly disposable. Dubai’s fiasco is giving us ample cheap labor. Go ahead, then. Be our guest: Retaliate to your heart’s content.” So says Big Oil.

Knowing that its retaliation against Big Oil’s disposable personnel will have no echo, Iran will be left no choice but to engage even deeper in Iraqi politics. The Reluctant Ones intend to do the same.

That sad, sad, Plantation - - yet another Arab victim of a foreign-and-military-policy subculture which anchors itself to Israel and its Diaspora institutions.

SUCCESS AGAINST IRAN

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APOLOGY

First, forgive me for the anger I expressed in two posts back. I don’t appreciate friends leading agents of the Israelis to my hiding place where I do my best work. And I’m tired of the snooping by these and by Government – the two now firmly allied. Neither has anything to offer me. At my age: it’s best to stick to one’s guns and say it as it is. To provide an alternative perspective to the Dominant One. To be useful as a way of dealing with age - - to engage the way Jean-Paul Sartre would’ve advised.

To become beholden to either - - Government or the Israeli-American institutions - - would be, in my judgment, a disservice to my country - - our Great Nation of Consumers. (I’m waiting for the sales that follow New years’ - - the only worthwhile sales.)

TURKEY SEEKS THE HELP OF THE ISRAEL-INSPIRED RELUCTANT ONES, AND VICE VERSA

REIN IN KURDISH NATIONALISM

The Arab press says that one possible area of discussion between Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Obama during Mr. Erdogan’s meeting at the White House will be the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Mr. Erdogan will offer a quid pro quo: we’ll help you in Afghanistan if you help us with the PKK.

The attentive observer should see in this the working of the American phase in the balance of power system in Western Asia. Instead of Mr. Erdogan seeking the assistance of the Iraqi government on the PKK issue, he is seeking that of the American government. Instead of seeking the help of the Government of Kurdistan, he is seeking the intervention of the White House.

In other words: To the Turks, the Iraqi government is a weak and ineffective puppet. (That puppet executed 120 people in 2009, with 900 others awaiting barbaric Texas-style Christian Old Testament death.) The Kurdish Government isn’t weak, but will never help the Turkish government against its own.

The Arabs having been made to eat shit by the alliance of the Diaspora’s institutions and the Christian Right - - the United States is now the only game in town.

Our best bet, therefore, is to seek help from the Reluctant Ones, who (as institutions) love the Kurdish Government and should therefore be able to pressure it to rein in the PKK. So goes the Turks’ thinking.

Mr. Erdogan is said to be bringing along a Turkish general to explain why the Turkish army is too busy in southeastern Turkey (home to its Kurdish population) to be able to dispatch troops to Afghanistan. In other words, the Turks believe that should the PKK be reined in, trouble for their government would diminish in the southeastern part of the country, thus freeing Turkish troops to be dispatched to Afghanistan.

I’m reluctant to second-guess the Turkish government, but we don’t know that this would happen - - that, in fact, eradicating the PKK would end or diminish substantially Kurdish nationalism (and paramilitary activism) within Turkey. Kurdish terror operations, I would say minimal now, would turn (as they are) into mass demonstrations on the streets. This should be as destabilizing a phenomenon as the few terror operations the PKK is getting away with - -both to country and government.

I think Mr. Erdogan, by making his request, is revealing the desperation of his government vis-à-vis the Country of Kurdistan and Kurdish nationalism. That Country is the same one which has the full support of the Reluctant Ones and, earlier, had the full support of the Harmful Idiots. That Country can finish the PKK but isn’t willing. Chalk it up to nationalism and the fear Kurdish leaders have that such a step would end up disintegrating their own Country. It IS Kurdish nationalism in northern Iraq - - not Arab, and certainly not Turkish.

Put differently: Consciously or not, Mr. Erdogan is asking Mr. Obama to rein in the Country of Kurdistan itself - - to rein in its Kurdish nationalism. An impossible mission. We’re in it knee-deep - - Kurdish nationalism, that is. Consciously or not, we stand behind it. We don’t want an intra-Kurdish civil war either.

(Note: the article about Mr. Erdogan's visit in the Washington Post today says nothing about a quid pro quo. It's written as if the PKK is no longer an issue. Wonder where from al-AKhbar - - Lebanese daily - - got its information.)

JOIN US IN THE ENCIRCLEMENT OF IRAN

The Reluctant Ones want Turkey to join them in encircling Iran and forcing it to shed its nuclear program. (I’m making a big assumption here: that in fact that’s the goal. I don’t think the Iranians, both IRG and the Opposition, see it like that; they see the goal of the Israel-inspired Reluctant Ones as one of putting in control the American-NATO-Israel Wing in Iranian politics, now that such Wing does in fact exist.) Likely, this will be their condition. But Turkey’s Kurdish Achilles’ heel is too painful to launch on what in effect would be war with Iran. In other words, Turkey isn’t up to balancing Iranian power, albeit with the help of the Reluctant Ones. There’s too much trouble in it for them.

And I don’t think it’ll make a difference whether the Generals are returned to power. If anything, the Generals would tend to want to go into the Country of Kurdistan and wage war on all Kurds. And, in addition to war, they would do what Mr. Saddam Hussein had done: divide-and-conquer within Kurdistan.

Army generals or Islamists, one route the Turks might take would be to coordinate with Iran (in a confidence-building exercise) to do just that: divide-up the Kurds.

CAN WE AFFORD SUCCESS IN IRAN?

The larger question: In view of the fact that the United States has taken on the role once played by Arab Iraq, to balance Iranian power even if it takes years-and-years of war, how would the United States deal with success, if success happens? Meaning: even short of actual war, if the American-NATO-Israel Wing in Iranian politics comes anywhere close to taking over, one should expect a civil war. IRG shouldn’ be expected to deliver the country to the American Wing just because that Wing wants it. As I have repeatedly warned in this newsletter, expect IRG (and the Syrian Baath) to have evolved plans to disintegrate their respective states as a way of waging unconventional war against the Americans - - should these come close to invading these two countries.

Now I would go further: Expect that IRG would disintegrate the state at any sign of success by the Israel-inspired U.S. institutions in putting their Wing in control of Iran.

With that, one should expect the possibility - - I would say: distinct - - of Iran breaking-up along religious-ethnic lines. We already have a live example of the result of American longing, inspired by Diaspora institutions and strategists, to control everything in the Arab nation and the Muslim World. That example is Iraq. Why should the results in Iran be different? If they are, it’ll be because IRG, unlike Saddam, having learned from Iraq, should by now have prepared intricate plans for the civil war. In that sense, the disintegration would be in good part self-induced and therefore much more complex to control by the Israel-inspired U.S. institutions.

One likely result of that scenario - - Iran’s disintegration - - would be that the Kurdish population within Iran would secede and would be welcomed (de facto) by the Country of Kurdistan in northern Iraq. That new entity would likely be such a boost to Kurdish nationalism within Turkey that that country (Turkey) would be witnessing its own bloody civil war. The Turkish armed forces would then have no choice but to enter the Country of Kurdistan. Yet another war.

I can’t think of any one safe way for the Israel-inspired Reluctant strategists to bring their team to power in Iran without that country going the way of a civil war - - and disintegration, albeit induced by IRG. If Iran does go the way of civil war, what makes the Israel-inspired Reluctant strategists think that they can keep our troops out of Iran? The temptation would be tremendous - - even iron-clad.

If the Israel-inspired Strategists fail to support their Wing within Iran (for what that Wing wants) then that Wing would give up on the Israel-inspired U.S. institutions - - sooner-or-later. It’s tempting (and quite naïve) to delay that disappointment by advising the American-NATO-Israel Wing to take it easy, so to speak, and work from within the Islamic framework. IRG isn’t stupid. It’d want to force that Wing outside of the Islamic framework. So don’t expect IRG to let this happen. IRG can take risks because, in the end, it has a “golden parachute” and it’ll use it if it has to.

All of this is by way of asking: Can the alliance of the American National Security establishment and Israel’s Diaspora institutions afford success in Iran?

OF INVADERS AND RESIDENTS

“When the human territory is threatened with invasion, the resident animal enjoys the same home-field advantage demonstrated by sparrows and other territorial species. Thus, even a fairly weak human often can prevail on its own turf. Humans also exhibit the same hierarchy of defensive behaviors shared by many animals when the territory is invaded by a more powerful competitor. In spite of the home-field advantage, the first choice is usually to flee. But when a human is cornered, he’ll opt to hide, then threaten, then attack, as the invader closes in.”

Hannah Holmes, The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself. (Random House, New York, 2008.)

CHANCE ENCOUNTER WITH THE BODY SNATCHERS. OKAY, THEIR PROXIES

A draft.

This blog has never been a chick magnet. Only a magnet for ugly guys: snoops for Government; snoops for the Israelis - - many times they’re one-and-the same, playing good-cop-bad-cop. But never - -NEVER, NOT EVEN ONCE - - a pretty woman. Ugly guys, snitches, snoops. Life really is disgusting. I avoid so many invites because I don’t want to confront my age and the women my age attracts. And I don’t care about seeing ugly guys. Yet, the ugly guys follow me, all thanks to this blog.

The sacrifices I go through.

The two men followed me into a coffee shop, Wednesday, December 2, 2009, around 9:30 AM. They sat right next to me. Cutely, they started arguing about Iran and Lebanon and Hezbollah. They disagreed on whether Iran had good intelligence or rather good analysts. They meant me: I’m the spy for Iran and Hezbollah; or I’m their analyst. Ugly guys go away.

I talked to them.

EITHER JOIN US OR SHUT IT DOWN

To cut to the chase: it seemed to be yet another attempt to steer this blog into an anti-Iran (anti-Hezbollah) direction. Or to shut it down. To recruit this blog into the service of the Israel-centric Idiots, shedding all critical thought. This process had started a long time ago, even earlier than I had once thought. At one time, after a doctored incident at the Lebanese Maronite church in D.C., acted out by Government consulting firms, likely after a coordination session between Israel’s Boys and Government Boys, I did close down the blog. Then I re-started it since I didn’t want to cave in to hooliganism and intimidation by government - -or by anyone.

The fact that these ugly guys chose to accuse me of spying for Iran and Hezbollah tells me that they’re likely one-and-the-same as the consulting firms at the Maronite church: Government agents. There’s a chance that they’re Israeli agents. But since both are pushing the same line . . . you draw your own conclusion. Importantly, the encounter with these proxy-Body Snatchers came soon after the posting of the last blog about Israel’s Boys having now expanded their influence to include U.S. policy towards China. Or, more correctly, their State-Within-the-State has drawn a new alliance with the National Security Establishment where the State-Within-the-State would bully the Chinese in what in essence seems to be no more than a sophomoric act and an empty threat - - albeit they bragged about it on the front page of the Washington Post. Little (empty) victories are important. Not.

I hate to admit it, but it was fun in a sick kind of way talking to these government informants. (Or were they Israeli informants?) Their act was charmingly irritating. Although I think they likely were taping me. My file must be so huge by now. A bit of entertainment isn’t really that bad. But only a bit.

There was the American and there was the Middle-Easterner. The American played the role of the Republican right-winger. The Middle Eastern man: the role of the left-of-center college-educated graduate who can’t get over the stupidity of the American. I joined in with the Middle Easterner.

A lady who sees me there all the time, saw me arguing with the two men. She came over later and berated me. Why?

CONSUMED BY HEZBOLLAH

The American wanted me to admit that Nasrallah of Hezbollah receives his orders from Ayatollah Khamenei. So what? So what? SO WHAT? Lebanon is a bunch of cargo cults, so much so that it is easier to understand it as a micro-balance-of-power-system than a nation united. Barring some people like Salim al-Hoss, most political forces and personalities are on the Foreign-Government-Payroll - - be it Iran’s, Saudi Arabia’s, the United States’, what have you - -and are Grandly Corrupt, TO BOOT. (I’m not talking small corruption.) It was the Harmful Idiots who had played such a critical role in leading Lebanon into its current state via the civil war which shattered the country to pieces. The harmful Idiots, as the Reluctant Ones, were (and still are, now even more) so Israel-centric that they couldn’t fathom the importance of wrapping it all up by pushing their Beloved out of all post-June 4, 1967, lands, paying reparations and building a Palestinian state. Instead they miscalculated on behalf of their Israel (with the help of Jordanian intelligence and Lebanese Army intelligence - - both mercenaries, happy to make a buck) to rein in the PLO. The rest is history.

But for one fact: the Harmful Idiots, after entrapping Arab Iraq to invade Kuwait, made use of Arab Syria to obtain an Arab cover to destroy Arab Iraq’s Army. To achieve this feat - - Arab Syria’s cooperation - - they and their Israelis allowed Syrian conquest of Mount Lebanon. All else is history. It’s the informant’s (be he Government’s or Israel’s) people (the Israelis and the Harmful Idiots) who played such a critical role in destroying Lebanon and who made Hezbollah possible.

I explained to him that Hezbollah was the creation of the idiocy of the idiots in their Beloved’s occupation of South Lebanon. He didn’t get it - - or at least he was waiting for his tape to run its course while I was talking. I told him that there was no question in my mind that Hezbollah receives its money from Iran, but that the Lebanese context for Hezbollah shouldn’t be under-estimated either.


We talked about many things: polling, taxation, the carry trade.

SOPHOMORES LOVE WORDS SUCH AS "CEILING"

We talked about the “ceiling” for Mr. Nasrallah’s decision-making in relation to Iran’s demands of him. In essence, my assessment is that at this point in time, because Hezbollah has to be careful about not plying open Lebanon’s bankruptcy, the ceiling is more sensitive to Lebanon’s needs than to Iran’s. At this point in time, Lebanon is living off the carry trade. Should Hezbollah start a war with Israel, hell would break loose and a lot of the money could leave Lebanon. It’ll be starvation city. The country truly is living precariously, appearances to the contrary notwithstanding. The Lebanon predicament for Hezbollah is such that the Party couldn’t be the one to start a war with Israel. It can, as I suspect it had, dispatch harmless rockets every-now-and-then into Israel, using fictitious organizations, to relay a message to the Reluctant Idiots’ Beloved. Otherwise, Lebanon’s predicament necessitates that the Party reserve its firepower on behalf of Iran to the time when Iran is attacked - - or Lebanon is. Obviously, this so-called ceiling (a word which my interlocutor-the-sophomore liked) will change with the times.

At one time, talking about something which I forgot, I showed him the relatively recent post in this newsletter titled “1964” in which Leonard Binder had warned all Great Powers (not only the U.S.) about direct involvement in the region. That warning had stayed with me for over thirty years and likely has colored the writings in this blog.

The Sophomore tried to force the issue about Hezbollah turning its weapons against the Lebanese. (I think that was in 2007 when Hezbollah routed Hariri’s boys, recruited from across Sunni Lebanon, to attack Hezbollah’s rear.) That’s like - - sophomoric as hell. That ship’s sailed during the Lebanese civil war when unspeakable massacres were committed not only among sects and the Palestinians but within the ranks of those as well. What kind of argument was that? I’ve had to put up with Israel-centric wishful-thinking sophomores ever since college. It really is scary that sophomores run this country’s policy towards such a large part of the world! It’s even scarier albeit …um, oh, let me think, yes - -harmfully IDIOTIC - - that these sophomores of the State-Within-the-State are now going after China.

MAYBE THE HARMFUL IDIOTS CAN LEARN FROM HEZBOLLAH. IDIOTS LEARNING. HA!

In the 2007 confrontation - -to which that man (likely taping me) was referring - - Hezbollah once again showed itself to be terrifically restrained (and therefore smart) by not avenging itself. Few died. Hezbollah collected most of the armed Sunni boys and delivered them to the Lebanese army. Hezbollah, too, didn’t kill Waleed Jumblatt , even though its fighters stood at the doorstep of his residence in West Beirut having surrounded it. Here, once again, that party showed smarts. Killing Jumblatt would’ve made him a Druze Martyr. Joulan’s population is mostly Druze (I believe) and Syria, Hezbollah’s ally, would’ve been scarred with that population had Jumblatt been murdered. At any rate, the stakes weren’t that high to necessitate the man’s assassination. They’d already marginalized him. Syria and Hezbollah had proved to be in control.

Shouldn’t the Israeli-tied Idiots, both Harmful and Reluctant, learn from this and try to emulate it? How about the Israelis learning from it and treating their Palestinian brothers and sisters with like kindness, instead of jailing over 10,000 of them, pressing them under th4e occupation boot, and murdering them wholesale? How about the Idiots learning to think through their Israel-inspired illusions before creating millions of refugees? Wouldn’t that be the smart way to go about things?

So you see how smart that party was? (I'm asking the readers not the Harmful Idiots or the Reluctant Ones.) Now contrast that to the Harmful Idiots delivering Saddam Hussein and the others to the lynch mob. Consider their arrogance (and abject mediocrity - - Israel-centric Harmful Idiocy, really) that they wouldn’t see that the entire Islamic World would live with the image of Christian troops, Israel-inspired, delivering a Muslim leader to the gallows of the lynch mob, the one which they had brought to power. Compare Hezbollah’s careful treatment of the armed Sunni boys, compare that to the Jewish-American U.S. Senator flying to Baghdad as Israeli conqueror (to please his Jewish contributors) to lecture the Kangaroo court trying Saddam Hussein - -to in-the-end speed up his lynching. (And you want to tell me that the Israel-minded Reluctant Ones don’t see the Arab Sunnis as their nemesis and want to crush them! I don't think they hate the Shias. But they do hate the Sunnis - -and disrespect them - - big time.) Most Arabs didn’t care much for Mr. Hussein. At best, they had mixed feelings towards him. But to have Christian conquering allies of Israel (how many times have I seen photos of pastors praying with the troops in Iraq or Afghanistan) deliver a Muslim Arab leader to the lynch mob! Hello.

Let me be crystal clear: I don’t give a fuck about Hezbollah, or Iran, or (believe it or not) Lebanon. Not to forget: Syria. My concern is this country, my country, and the tendency my country, under your Israeli inspiration, forever miscalculates in that neighborhood and brings so much misery to it. When Hezbollah resists hegemonic and arrogant Israel as it did in 2006, all Arabs (myself included) are impressed and moved by its feat. We’ve had it with Her Excellency throwing her weight about and with you the Idiots signing off on anything Her Excellency demands. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t appreciate the fact that Hezbollah is an arm of the Iranians. And as an arm of Iran, all need to consider the possible uses Iran makes or will make of that Lebanese party. I wasn’t born yesterday. But I don’t need any-which-sophomore (my apologies to the informants taping me) to lecture me about Iran or Hezbollah or to try to close this newsletter as they did at the Maronite Church - - necessarily driving my father away from it at a time when he needs it most. So please cease-and-desist from trying to control me and this blog. Yes, I’m impressed by Hezbollah’s sophistication, unimpressed by your Idiocy (though forever awed at its depth), but hardly sympathetic to Hezbollah - - because I really don't care about there, but about here. Simply put: I don’t give a fuck about Lebanon, Iran, Israel, Hezbollah, Syria and certainly the State-Within-the-State: You.

Cease and desist, please. Let it go. If you want to talk to me, send in Senator Mitchell. Or gorgeous and available women. I want to minimize my dealings with riffraff. I work hard on this newsletter not to let it be cheapened by foreign agents or Government snitches.

THE LESSONS: THE RELUCTANT ONES ARE AT A LOSS. HOW CAN THEY FIND AN ARAB OR MUSLIM NEXUS TO COMPETE WITH IRAN?

There’s a lesson in this encounter - - other than harassment, intimidation and the provision to me of yet more material. The lesson and its contours:

1. The harmful idiots drove us blindly into a systemic power vacuum trap. That trap had been long in the digging, by us, having so weakened Arab Iraq which once upon a time had balanced Iranian power. But it took Real Idiots who measure everything by an Israeli yardstick to actually push us over the edge.

2. Now that we’re sitting deep inside the hole, another version of the Idiots, the Reluctant Ones, warriors for Israel, took over. Instead of forging a course of balancing Iranian power while saving us money (e.g., tripwires here-and there, a professional Saudi army), they persuaded our young and handsome President to stay the course—the Harmful Idiot course, that is,

3. Our allies/AKA/Burden, such as Israel and the Egyptian government, want us inside the trap because how else would they make a buck? The two likely played an important role in prodding our President to adopt the “I love it deep inside the muddy trap” theory which the Israel section of the Reluctant Ones had carried over from the Harmful Idiots. The Arab allies have long ago rented Israel’s Diaspora to gain SOME influence in U.S. foreign policy.

4. Our allies/AKA/Burden are bankrupt when it comes to usefulness. The Egyptian government had shed its Arab identity; accordingly it can hardly trust its own armed forces should it dispatch them abroad. The Israelis are harmful, radioactive really; the Jordanians sit on an Islamic time bomb that hasn’t exploded only because (a) the Islamists know that the King brings Jordan needed cargo and (b) because the Islamists are aware that Israel would like nothing better than an Islamist (predominately Palestinian) state next door to which it’d push out its Palestinian citizens.

5. The seeming moral strength of the argument made by the allies/AKA/Burden that you got us into the Iranian mess, so you get us out of it. It’s a ruse. They’re not in any Iranian mess. We can provide them with tons of conventional protection. The rest is up to them. For instance, it’ll help them quite a lot if they re-discover their Arab identity. But they wouldn’t want to disturb Israel lest Israel unleashes against them its American Diaspora institutions and they lose aid (e.g., Egypt) or backing for their system of government (e.g., Saudi Arabia, Egypt.) That IS their bind; not Iran.

6. Having eliminated Arab Iraq (instead of adopting it - - hey, their Beloved wouldn’t like it) - -and with it the veneer of pan-Arab nationalism, funded by some of the Arab oil money, the Reluctant Ones are stuck fighting a losing ideological war with Iran. There was a time when the old WASP establishment would field Americans we Arabs (and Muslims) liked. But now the Arabs, conquered and defeated, are left with Israel’s Diaspora in Washington, D.C., as Judge, Jury, and Executioner. Having no Arab or American institutions left which are not beholden to the Diaspora’s institutions, the establishment finds itself at a loss trying to find a non-military nexus, Arab or Muslim, in its ideological confrontation with Iran.

7. The Sunni-Shia schism which Saudi Arabia had nursed along prior to 2007 proved to be a disaster in Lebanon. Then Israel staged its vicious assault on Gaza, murdering civilians wholesale. The Arab Street, a part of which seemed to have accepted Saudi largesse and had leaned towards confrontation with the Arab Shia, turned around. The Syrian Muslim Brothers, for instance, re-engaged with the Syrian government soon after Israel’s assault. No Arab could anymore accept to see the nation divided. (Until, that is, we got to the soccer competition between Algeria and Egypt which ALL the Arab commentators I read bemoaned and condemned.) The Sunni-Shia schism nexus, therefore, proved futile.

8. At one time, and still ongoing, in its search for that elusive Muslim/Arab nexus to compete with Iran, the Israeli-obsessed Establishment went after Arab Syria. It hoped that Arab Syria would split from Iran, accept to be adopted by the Israel-crazed Idiots, Harmful then Reluctant, and with that adoption strike two birds with one stone: Gain an Arab nationalist foothold for the Israel-centric Reluctant Ones and finish Hezbollah. I’m not going to waste too much time on this. Suffice it to say that Arab Syria isn’t stupid. And, to boot, its ability to resist Israel’s overwhelming firepower and high-tech weaponry proved to be stunning. (I’m talking about 2006.) Not to mention that years earlier it had given an Arab cover for the Idiots’ liberation of Kuwait (after the same Idiots had entrapped Arab Iraq using Kuwait in order to finish Arab Iraq’s army, which now they wish they had), only to be itself threatened by invasion. Syria, therefore, was a no-go. (Syria currently is hedging its bet by cozying up to Turkey, a NATO member, to wait out the war between the U.S. and Iran.)


So, you see, the Reluctant Ones, being as Israel-inspired as the Harmful Idiots, are at a loss. They know that conventionally Iran stands no chance against our technology. But what about Israel-in-South-Lebanon in 2006? And Israel-in-Gaza where it couldn’t get to that leadership of theirs - - while massacring hundred of innocent civilians? Will we be doing the same in Iran and Iraq - - murdering civilians wholesale as our target list necessarily expands? Why? If we want to stay in Iraq and in Afghanistan we will need an Arab angle and an Islamic angle. But all we have is a Jewish angle. Darn. The Arabs and Muslims we have, well—they’ve been kidnapped by the Body Snatchers and have therefore little Arab or MusliM credibility left.

THE PIVOTAL IMPORTANCE OF TONY KHATER AS ARAB (THOUGH NON-MUSLIM) NEXUS - - A MAGNET FOR UGLY GUYS

It all now depends on what Tony Khater will do in his blog. If Tony Khater goes after Iran and Hezbollah, then all will be well. We, the Israel-centric Harmful Idiots, will then control Iraq, Iran Will be reclaimed, and Syria would disintegrate and what’s left of it would bequeath the Joulan to our Beloved Israel. The Palestinians will not have their third Intifadha.

And if Tony Khater doesn’t issue analysis for the benefit of Iran and Hezbollah (and now the Chinese!! I’m so fucking flattered—but where are the gorgeous women?) the Iranians and their allies will then not be able to read the map and, as a consequence, will get lost and bump their heads against palm trees. They’d fall into our sophisticated traps. (Forgive them: Idiots rarely believe they are idiots.) It escapes the Israel-inspired-idiots that I get my ability to analyze not from them but from the Arab press! From them, all I’ve gotten is abject idiocy, intimidation, encounters with ugly guys -- and the constant snooping, of course.

But, you see, we’re ashamed of Tony Khater. We can only accommodate him as a snoop, informant, snitch. We can approach him only as snoops would. We can eavesdrop on him but not have a tea with him in any straightforward fashion. And if we do, we’d have gotten to him by snooping. Anything else and Congress would hammer us. You know what we mean: Didn’t he go after that conquering Jewish-American U.S. Senator (the eye-for-and eye guy not the forgiving Jesus--Old Testament not New Testament) for speeding up the lynching of an Arab Muslim leader? They will call us anti-Semites and we’d have to defend ourselves at Congressional hearings. Hush.

If you’re ashamed of Tony Khater - - well, the feeling is mutual. Because you're idiots.

Then again: the informants are doing it for the money. I’m certainly neutral about having become such a source of Government money for so many assholes.

THE CRACK WHORE THAT I AM

My chance encounter American interlocutor wanted me to go after Hezbollah. So that’s what I am, huh? A cheap mercenary - - worse: a crack whore? He wants to vitiate the years in which I evolved an American persona and return me to that little Lebanon, the one from which I escaped over thirty years ago. Who are these people? Oh dear! Can't they get it into their brain that I write for Americans not for the Lebanese. GET IT? If I were writing for the Lebanese wouldn’t you think I’d write in Arabic? Besides, does it matter or not that all the Saudi money couldn’t defeat Hezbollah. So what makes you think Tony Khater could? I’ve said it in so many places: Only when the Shia reject Hezbollah would Hezbollah weaken. Saudi Arabia tried. How many times did it bring Nabih Berri over to talk him into splitting from Hezbollah? Stop spinning your harmful wheels, for Moses' sake!

As to the gentleman’s concern about American power (he’s now caught on to my American persona and is trying to use it): American power will return vibrant and strong as soon as we arrange our own house - - as soon as we return to taxation and public policy, running the country not as a dumb war machine, as soon as we defeat those of the gentleman’s ilk who come into the White House to weaken the federal government - - the government for minorities, you see - - as soon as we withdraw from wars fought on inspiration by his State-Within-the-State.

CONCLUSION

Soon after the two men left while giving me likely wrong names, a friend called. I told her to meet me at the coffee shop. The reason I asked her to meet me was that, because a socialite, I had this feeling she may have known the couple who crashed the White House party. I was up for some laughter. She did come by. She queried. I said I just had a conversation with two Government informants who had followed me into the coffee shop. She smiled. “Don’t be so sure,” she said.

Oh, no, the Body Snatchers have gotten to her. Strange: She knew I wasn’t in a state to accept these cheap overtures by ugly males. I had been exhausted as hell from care giving since May, rushing about to hospitals and doctors’ appointments and lab tests. She knew this. Why would she do that, then - - lead two informants of the U.S.-Israel National Security Establishment into my hiding place where I do my best work? Could it be money? Her real estate mini-empire is sucking oodles of it and property isn’t selling. Could she have? Unlikely. Still: she should know better. But for the Volvo her great late parents used to lend me when in Lebanon - - the best car for Lebanon, tough heavy steel - - I wanted to jump over the table and strangle her. I didn't.

Then I forgot to ask her whether she knew the couple who crashed the White House party.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: If my judgement is correct - -that the men were taping me - -expect them to doctor the tape in nefarious ways.