Hercubush

The news today is that Prime Minister Blair is arranging a meeting with President Bush aimed at developing a policy that will allow the pulling out of British and American troops from Iraq over the next year...or so.

Meanwhile, if the occupation forces do pull out, and the sectarian violence increases afterwards, the Iranians and the Saudis are each planning to support their respective factions with money and weapons. And the Kurds, who are pushing for their own US supported homeland out of the ashes of a failed Iraq, are being threatened by the Turks, who have a slight problem with the Kurds due to their own attempted genocide of their own Kurdish population.

In Afghanistan (remember that war?) the Taliban are entering into local treaties with villages and warlords and increasing their violent opposition to the occupation. Lacking oil as an economic foundation, the good news for the Afghans is that the poppy harvest has reached record levels and many Afghans will soon be able to buy food and medicine, and heroin prices in the West will remain low as the supply is increased.

The news on the "exporting democracy" front is that the prime examples of this enterprise, Palestine and Lebanon, are exercising their freedom by voting in their main terrorist organizations as their new governments.

But, on the lighter side, I have dug up this historical, and hysterical, video from the youtube archives. This video puts present events into a proper and historical context.



Hercubush