We Know, We Know

Today Estase was in a fast food place and saw a fat, mannish woman with hair shorter than his own. She wore a T-shirt which read "This is what a feminist looks like."

Non Mentis Compis

The world is gone crazy. Or at least the Bush Administration has. The proposal to allow a Chinese firm to operate a nuclear scanner for the U.S. in the Bahamas is the craziest thing I have ever heard of. Any company from Hong Kong is at least partially controlled by communist China, a brutal dictatorship. Any Chinese company should never be allowed anywhere near U.S. national security functions. Anyone who would trust our security to communist China isn't competant enough to handle his or her own finances. Absolutely crazy.

Jeane Kirkpatrick, Where Are You?

Now, with Jimmy Carter endorsing the U.A.E. ports deal, it is instructive to return to the
Commentary article of November 1979, "Dictatorships and Double Standards." In that excellent article, Jeane Kirkpatrick points out how the Carter Administration was instrumental in the rise of the radical Islamic state in Iran. So, we can trust the arabs just as much now as when Carter helped Ayatollah Khoumeni come to power. The article points out that we were, in those wonderful days, destabilizing friendly regimes and helping unfriendly regimes come to power. Incidentally, all America needs is a Democrat in the White House in 2008. Right.