Earth to GWB: The Lebanese Army isn't on your side any more!
So there was George Bush, telling the BBC today that he is willing to send US aid to the Lebanese Army... Doesn't he realize that, as I suggested here yesterday, the Lebanese Army isn't on his side any more??
Is it any wonder that the administration led by this man is losing so badly in the Middle East these days?
George Bush has thoroughly vanquished any semblance of US sensibility or US diplomacy, and every action the US CINC takes now in the final eight months of this interregnum will be a military one, even imbecilic ones like sending aid to the LBA -- Lebanon Barracks Army. Now he'll speak with PM Olmert, two political dead ducks.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is under investigation for bribery, was an “honest man”, President George W Bush said yesterday, on the eve of his visit to the Middle East. How would he know? Meanwhile, police raided the offices of the Jerusalem municipality searching for evidence in the widening corruption investigation of Prime Minister Olmert, an "honest man."
Bush did manage to blame everything wrong in Lebanon on Iran, which is also responsible for US failures in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia, while in the US eighteen war vets commit suicide daily.
It was interesting how the BBC reported Bush's interview on its flagship "Today" news programme this morning. No direct soundbites, just a precis from the BBC's Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen. His line was that US policy in Lebanon had failed completely, and Bush was in a a very weak position. Bowen's contempt for the man seemed barely disguised.