Then THIS would represent the Saudi regime today:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock’d them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
IF President Bush meant what he said when he proclaimed, “Our enemy is a radical network of terrorists, and every government that supports them,” and “Our war on terror begins with al Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped and defeated.,” and “…the only way to defeat terrorism as a threat to our way of life is to stop it, eliminate it, and destroy it where it grows,” and especially “And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists,” then Saudi Arabia would no longer be “Saudi” Arabia, for the Saudi regime is indeed the world leader in supporting Islamic terrorism.
But of course, we now know that President Bush did not mean what he said. He uttered what we can see with perfect hindsight were simply political lies.
*sigh*
I have no further use for this man. Bring me another, better one to serve in his place, please.
(Well, the request for a “better man” excludes the entire field of Democrappic candidates and darned near all the Republican’ts… *sigh*)
Oh, and for those Saudis who like to press “libel” suits in countries with friendly libel laws in order to suppress truth, bring it on. You’d have to come to my neck of the woods to collect, and I don’t think your collection agents would appreciate the reception committee…