[lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions

[Bradford DeLong]

>Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>The fact that historically the Bush family has had... close... ties 
>>with the Al-Saud makes me think it unlikely. But George W. Bush may 
>>well be an idiot who thinks that Arik is a friendly guy who is 
>>fighting the same war against the PA that he is fighting against Al 
>>Qaeda and Saddam Hussein..
>
>Isn't that exactly what he thinks? And isn't that one of many 
>reasons it's so scary he thinks he runs Iraq now?
>
>Doug

Hasn't his father told him...

(a) "the Jews don't vote for us.

(b) when Ariel Sharon was Israeli Defense Minister, he made two 
commitments to Ronald Reagan's personal representative Philip Habib: 
(i) that Israel would observe the ceasefire Habib had negotiated with 
Assad, (ii) that Habib could assure Yasser Arafat that Palestinians 
in refugee camps near Beirut would be safe once the PLO had departed 
for Tunis

?

Brad DeLong