What is Brian Williams ??
Hey Folks,
Over supper last night I saw Brian Williams on the nightly NBC News, broadcasting from Havana, supposedly because the Non-Aligned Countries were meeting there. His comments touched on Fidel Castro's health, his "doubtful" return to "full" leadership, and presented a segment on the "problem" of "smuggling Cubans" into this country.
He went to Havana for that? Shouldn't he have reported SOMETHING on what these 117 countries were thinking, saying, proposing??
He didn't.
Instead his report consisted simply of saying - a number of times - that the gathering consisted of "all of America's enemies," "all the enemies of the United States"!!!!!!!!
WHAT !!!!!!?????
There are 117 nations - some I've never heard of - who are our ENEMIES ??
Some of the nations (our "enemies") on that list are the Bahamas, Chile, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Grenada, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Trinidad, and Viet Nam.
What has Brian Williams been smoking?
This is what passes for news? I guess that because Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and North Korea - the "Dastardly Duo" and the "Axis of Evil" - are there, we can just lump them all together - the six I mentioned and the 111 others.
This is an idiocy of even larger scale than identifying Cuba and Venezuela as our "enemies" simply because they won't kiss Uncle Sam's politico-economic ass!! (For that matter, what has Cuba or Venezuela ever done to America? What has America done to Venezuela and - particularly - Cuba over the years? Who is whose enemy?)
It would have been instructive to learn what these 117 nations - many of whom are allies or trading partners or recipients of US aid - thought their problems, needs, hopes, and plans were. Then we could have decided for ourselves whether they seemed like our "enemies."
But, no!! Brian Williams did our thinking for us.
Is he that stupid? Or does he just want to keep us stupid?
- Uke Man
The Entire List of Member Countries:
Afghanistan - Algeria - Angola - Antigua and Barbuda - Bahamas - Bahrain - Bangladesh - Barbados - Belarus - Belize - Benin - Bhutan - Bolivia - Botswana - Brunei - Burkina Faso - Burundi - Cambodia - Cameroon - Cape Verde - Central African Republic - Chad - Chile - Colombia - Comoros - Congo - Côte d'Ivoire -Cuba - Democratic Republic of Congo - Djibouti - Dominica - Dominican Republic - Ecuador - Egypt - Equatorial Guinea - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Gabon -Gambia - Ghana - Grenada - Guatemala - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Guyana -Haiti - Honduras - India - Indonesia - Iran - Iraq - Jamaica - Jordan - Kenya - Kuwait - Laos - Lebanon - Lesotho - Liberia -Libya - Madagascar - Malawi - Malaysia - Maldives - Mali - Mauritania - Mauritius - Mongolia - Morocco - Mozambique - Myanmar - Namibia - Nepal - Nicaragua - Niger - Nigeria - North Korea - Oman - Pakistan - Panama - Papua New Guinea - Peru - Philippines - Qatar - Rwanda - Saint Lucia - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - São Tomé and Príncipe - Saudi Arabia - Senegal - Seychelles - Sierra Leone - Singapore - Somalia - South Africa - Sri Lanka - Sudan - Suriname - Swaziland - Syria - Tanzania - Thailand - Timor Leste - Togo - Trinidad and Tobago - Tunisia - Turkmenistan - Uganda - United Arab Emirates - Uzbekistan - Vanuatu - Venezuela - Vietnam - Yemen - Zambia - Zimbabwe
Over supper last night I saw Brian Williams on the nightly NBC News, broadcasting from Havana, supposedly because the Non-Aligned Countries were meeting there. His comments touched on Fidel Castro's health, his "doubtful" return to "full" leadership, and presented a segment on the "problem" of "smuggling Cubans" into this country.
He went to Havana for that? Shouldn't he have reported SOMETHING on what these 117 countries were thinking, saying, proposing??
He didn't.
Instead his report consisted simply of saying - a number of times - that the gathering consisted of "all of America's enemies," "all the enemies of the United States"!!!!!!!!
WHAT !!!!!!?????
There are 117 nations - some I've never heard of - who are our ENEMIES ??
Some of the nations (our "enemies") on that list are the Bahamas, Chile, Columbia, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ethiopia, Grenada, Haiti, India, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Trinidad, and Viet Nam.
What has Brian Williams been smoking?
This is what passes for news? I guess that because Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and North Korea - the "Dastardly Duo" and the "Axis of Evil" - are there, we can just lump them all together - the six I mentioned and the 111 others.
This is an idiocy of even larger scale than identifying Cuba and Venezuela as our "enemies" simply because they won't kiss Uncle Sam's politico-economic ass!! (For that matter, what has Cuba or Venezuela ever done to America? What has America done to Venezuela and - particularly - Cuba over the years? Who is whose enemy?)
It would have been instructive to learn what these 117 nations - many of whom are allies or trading partners or recipients of US aid - thought their problems, needs, hopes, and plans were. Then we could have decided for ourselves whether they seemed like our "enemies."
But, no!! Brian Williams did our thinking for us.
Is he that stupid? Or does he just want to keep us stupid?
- Uke Man
The Entire List of Member Countries:
Afghanistan - Algeria - Angola - Antigua and Barbuda - Bahamas - Bahrain - Bangladesh - Barbados - Belarus - Belize - Benin - Bhutan - Bolivia - Botswana - Brunei - Burkina Faso - Burundi - Cambodia - Cameroon - Cape Verde - Central African Republic - Chad - Chile - Colombia - Comoros - Congo - Côte d'Ivoire -Cuba - Democratic Republic of Congo - Djibouti - Dominica - Dominican Republic - Ecuador - Egypt - Equatorial Guinea - Eritrea - Ethiopia - Gabon -Gambia - Ghana - Grenada - Guatemala - Guinea - Guinea-Bissau - Guyana -Haiti - Honduras - India - Indonesia - Iran - Iraq - Jamaica - Jordan - Kenya - Kuwait - Laos - Lebanon - Lesotho - Liberia -Libya - Madagascar - Malawi - Malaysia - Maldives - Mali - Mauritania - Mauritius - Mongolia - Morocco - Mozambique - Myanmar - Namibia - Nepal - Nicaragua - Niger - Nigeria - North Korea - Oman - Pakistan - Panama - Papua New Guinea - Peru - Philippines - Qatar - Rwanda - Saint Lucia - Saint Kitts and Nevis - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - São Tomé and Príncipe - Saudi Arabia - Senegal - Seychelles - Sierra Leone - Singapore - Somalia - South Africa - Sri Lanka - Sudan - Suriname - Swaziland - Syria - Tanzania - Thailand - Timor Leste - Togo - Trinidad and Tobago - Tunisia - Turkmenistan - Uganda - United Arab Emirates - Uzbekistan - Vanuatu - Venezuela - Vietnam - Yemen - Zambia - Zimbabwe
1 Comments:
Bahrain and India are our enemies??? I thought we liked those guys...we've got a naval base in Bahrain...perhaps Bush considers it to be a base like Guantanamo where we have a foothold in an "enemy's territory" and India? Perhaps outsourcing jobs to India will be looked at more closely by Homeland Security??? Give me a break...
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