Dennis Miller was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart displaying his limited understanding of why the Iraq war was a bad idea and the simplistic, black and white view of the world. He said that this was in fact why he supports Bush, because Bush is a "checkers" man and Kerry was a "chess" man. The chess man deliberates and makes decisions based on observation and context, but the all-mighty checkers man just moves without much thought--quicker decisions, I guess, makes for better decisions. Well, that hasn't been true in any sense, but it just shows the silly ways that Bush supporters show support for Bush. They construct elaborate examples based on personality or style rather than substance.
So yesterday, Checkers decides that he should host the Prince of Saudi Arabia at his Texas White House (the arrogance of a Western White House is inescapable). Checkers shows the world how friendly he is with the Saudi Prince by grasping his hand in a gesture that shows brotherhood among muslims (a practice that is quite common in the muslim world).
Checkers is saying, "The Saudi Prince and me are brothers."
To me, this is as inflammatory to terrorists as is our presence in Iraq. Recently, two American journalists were targeted in Saudi Arabia by anti-American Saudi terrorists--one was killed and one was paralyzed. Our cozy relationship with the royal family is obviously doing NOTHING to help our energy policy (Bush didn't dare ask the Prince, his brother, to increase their production of oil--I guess that's a chess move?) yet his "style and personality" has a huge impact on the morale of terrorists and anti-American/Israeli forces in the middle east. It recruits!! It threaten us as well as the Saudi royal family. The Saudi Prince and Bush can't see this from their red and black checkers board--ironically it really is that simple. Cause and effect...
It's time to discontinue propping up the Saudi royal family with our military and oil needs--we are not their brothers. Cousins, sure, brothers, no.
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