Saud Off - Have you

Saud Off - Have you seen the billboards (one is on I-94 in Frogtown), or heard the radio ads from...Saudi Arabia? I heard them on KSTP the other afternoon - a sonorous talking head declaiming the need for us to support the Saudi peace plan. I thought they felt simply incongruous - a nation whose media demands the liquidation of the Jewish state, and the enslavement of Jewish women, wants to teach us about peace?

Bizarre.

Several American cable networks felt the same, apparently.

The Enlightened Union - American liberals, awash with ambivalence toward (or inflamed with hatred of) the US, often decry the racism in the US, comparing it to Europe's "more enlightened attitude".

This is so untrue in so many ways,and France's record with the Jews is only the latest symptom. People today forget the anti-semitic hatred that pre-Vatican-II Catholicism engendered; during WWII, Polish Catholics were quoted as saying they would rather kill a Jew than a Nazi.

So why is France the only place it seems not to have changed?

The Incoherence of the Left - This critique of Arundhati Roy - an Indian economist and critic - could be applied to so many; Chomsky, much of the Green Party, vast swathes of people at the U of M...