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Brian:

We live in tough times, where tyrants feel bold enough to brag about what their intentions are, and to act on them. These guys are very, very scary, and I think that fact is coming through loud and clear to most of us ‘muricuns.

If I were the Republicans, I’d milk Mr. Chavez’s speech for all it’s worth . . . and Mr. Achmadinejab’s too.

Brian

Sep 20, 2006 - 5:17 pm Matt:

Even Jon Stewart was making fun of him tonight.

Sep 20, 2006 - 11:19 pm Buddy Larsen:

Ms Rosett, now that you have a blog, I can finally tell you directly how very valuable a journalist I think you are. The Oil-for-Food work has been historic in import–and I’m not sure how much of it would even be known, without your effort and dedication. So, “thanks!”

Sep 20, 2006 - 11:39 pm Richard R:

at about 4 PM today, heading for that same sulfur-suffused UN podium, we have…. Robert Mugabe.

Why is it you never have a JDAM when you really, really need one?

Sep 21, 2006 - 1:12 am Davod:

They just do not understand us. If only the US would sit down and talk one on one with these people all would be well in the world.

Sep 21, 2006 - 3:05 am Kiril, The Cycling Dude:

What a great observation about the UN! ;-D

Sep 21, 2006 - 4:50 am j:

.blink. “even” jon stewart?

anyway, since you’re getting instalanched anyway, if you get time, please post some of the points from the speech here, please.

thanks.

Sep 21, 2006 - 5:07 am Tom Grey - Liberty Dad:

Like Buddy, I thank you, Claudia, you’re doing great.

What the world needs, but isn’t quite ready for, is a World Cop. An organization ready to use force against governments that violate their people’s Human Rights — especially those of Free Speech and Free Religion.

Such a World Cop could only be composed of democracies that did NOT violate these rights.

I wish the US could get India, Japan, the EU, and other democracies to join together in a Human Rights Enforcement Group.

And, first of all, stop the genocide in Darfur. By force. Without the Sudanese government’s permission.

Sep 21, 2006 - 5:53 am Patrick Carroll:

Well, the PM of Thailand just got ousted in a blodless coup.

Maybe that’s the way to go: every time the baddies come to the UN, we go into some random kleptocracy and rearrange the chairs.

Soon, we wouldn’t have any baddies coming to the UN.

(Ah, dreams.)

Sep 21, 2006 - 6:46 am dustydog:

This speech will get him a nobel peace prize.

Sep 21, 2006 - 6:51 am Civitas:

Let me echo Buddy Larsen. Your coverage of the UN’s moral and operational collapse is a signal contribution to the current discourse and the historical record. In “The Shield of Achilles” Philip Bobbit argues (to me, quite persuasively) that the State is evolving from “nation-state” to “market-state” and that the legitimating narratives and rules of play within and between states are changing quickly and drastically. I think we all feel the old world passing away; and with it will pass the inter-State arrangements for stability such as the UN. Ever since the rape of Srebenica (and for those able and willing to watch, well before that) the UN has been obviously moribund. Its failure of vision and will, and its self-serving corruption of the moral vocabulary, have only grown more toxic. Not only does it not produce good, not only does it dissipate energies that a better system could better use; it also actively shelters and furthers genocidal tyrannies and dead-end kleptocracies that have taken the form and expect the privileges of sovereign nations in an unsustainable masquerade paid for by the few liberal democracies on which they heap abuse. You are helping us all to see and remember this clearly. We will need that clarity as the State struggles toward a new relationship with its citizens and its neighbors. Chavez and Ahmedinijad represent the necrotic form of the old nation-state. Let us hope they do not stand for the form in which, or with which, the market-state will emerge.

Sep 21, 2006 - 8:40 am tyree:

The Pope makes a speech and gets marked for death. Hugo Chavez makes a speech and gets applause. I can’t wait for a good writer to compare and contrast what that means.

Sep 21, 2006 - 8:44 am Iceberg:

Echoing Buddy, Tom, and Civitas above, thank you so much for the spadework you’ve been doing on the train wreck at Turtle Bay, Claudia. What may be as disturbing an aspect as any with respect to these issues is that we’ve needed to rely on you for the scoop because so few columnists and reporters working within the legacy media are tackling these subjects, or, if they are, they’re being spiked by their editors.

I’ve yet to hear or see any categorical condemnation within MSM for either Chavez’ or Ahmadinejad’s remarks, or for Sec.-Gen. Annan’s gratuitous suck-ups to both. Of course, all three are consistantly on-message with MSM’s editorial policies, which generally, I hardly need reiterate, are reflective of a deeper hatred of Bush (”Satan”) than of any wish for a strong and soverign U.S.

‘Berg

Sep 21, 2006 - 11:12 am Brian:

Power line notes this:

“There is nothing surprising, of course, about the secular socialist from Venezuela making common cause with religious fanatics from halfway around the world. Tyrants have always worked together when it suits their purposes; they always understand one another, since they are more or less alike.”

. . . which should put to rest the notion that secular facists couldn’t possibly make common cause with religious zealots, an assertion that once was made to persuade us that there could be no connection between Saddam and al Qaeda.

Oh well . . .

Brian

Sep 21, 2006 - 10:37 pm

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