My willingness to embarrass myself knows no bounds. If my eyes are not deceiving me there were many a Middle-east old hands in the State Dept. who had to be put aside so the neoconnized new blood could take his place. And that happened elsewere too, while slowly the stupidest guys on earth could feel at home in their politically appointed seats. And oil, of course, the snake oil of equality that made it imperative to throw aside the more competent people so the miriads of Jennifer Lynne Matthews could prove how smart they are and the miriads of Obamas could find their ways open, in fact so open that they could change even their countries of birth as many times as needed for the purpose of milking the affirmative action plus foreign exchange paths of academia and enter politics with the best of resumes. So there they are, the ambitious, but all accomodating women careerists, the young know-nothings and obamases and the surviving sycophants of officedom put in decision places to fill the void created by the dismissal of those who knew something about the Middle-east and were an obstacle to the zionists and the politicians under their sway (usually of democrat extraction). And this process will never end because it takes a lot of time and a lot of able-brain willingness to regain the lost knowledge. A thing impossible in a country where "this belief [that] springs from the notion that humans are so much alike everywhere that surely they must all want to become part of the West and in doing that reject their "worthless" outmoded ways" is as valid in foreign policy as it is in internal affairs, where the absurd laws of disparate impact and the quota-everywhere people are making life especially hard for the competent, who are usually of the wrong sex and skin color, while everyone waits for the flash mobbers to westernize somehow and the girls to grow some balls other than those prosthetics of feminazi making whose only use is in the calling of hard-thinking men wussies when they do not agree with their dogmatic certainties. But perhaps my comments have no resemblance to reality, not in this age where nulities like Elena Kagan can rise to be a Supreme Court justice while people still have the obstinate blindness to attribute such feats of tribal manipulation to raw intelligence. Let's wait till reality becomes a bit more clear and people start to remember that foreign policy in the Middle-east was really better when the offices responsible for it were considered to harbor plenty of antisemites. Anonymous
