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Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi duplicate of Dominique Galouzeau [de Villepin (Patent Pending)], commenting last week's bombings and calling that a "wake-up" call, declared:I've never seen this country united against something more than they are united against these terroristsYou mean, not even against the Jews?
Well, that's what I call waking up, really.
Hope you won't fall back asleep too fast.
Probably still a bit sleepy, Your Excellency tried to figure out where You were waking up:
This is our 9/11.With all the respect and sorrow I do feel for the victims, all I can answer to the oligarch is:
"hardly".
But of course, any kind of comparison between three suicide bombers in Ryadh for the first time in years (and maybe for the first time ever, actually) and constant suicide bombing in Israel for years would be not only villainously gruesome but also totally irrelevant and the victims of terror deserve more than these posthumous nonsense.
And I won't mention three thousands people in New York.
Nonetheless, if you're convinced that this is your 9/11, I hope you'll do me the favor to consider the following consistent dissimilarities between your 9/11 and the 9/11:
♠ Unlike the Palestinians, the Israelis weren't dancing in the streets, singing "God is great".
♠ Unlike the French TV commentators and printed press journalists, the French TV commentators and printed press journalists didn't claim two days later that "Yes, it's a tragedy but maybe they deserved it after all".
♠ Unlike the Saudis, the Americans didn't send a notable to the bruised city's head of the civilian authority with a big bank check and a speech that said "Yes, it's a tragedy but maybe you deserved it after all. Anyway we're friends, so here's a big bank check, thank you."
♠ Unlike New York's exceptional mayor at a moment of time where all his energy was needed to perform his duty, the head of Riyadh's civilian authority was spared the extraneous effort to tell a foreign notable how to stick a big bank check up any available orifice at is disposal under the jellaba, thank you.
Come to think of it, I see a lot of differences between your 9/11 and the 9/11. But it's not my style to shoot the ambulance so if you're really determined to jump on the bandwagon and hunt these bastards down to the darkest corners of the world with Mr. Bush, I'm OK with that.
When it hits home, it is different. Perhaps, the only people who can understand that are the people who have gone through 9/11 in the United States.Holy cow. He's starting to get sleepy again.
Repeat after me: the people in New York and Israel.
This is why the people of Saudi Arabia, in their wisdom, know that there is no way that you can condone any action of terror -- whatever the target isI have no doubt about the people of Saudi Arabia's wisdom, of course.
It's just that, if you allow me a friendly advice, you should work a bit more on "fairness" and "objectivity".
The important words here being "there is no way that you can condone any action of terror -- whatever the target is."
And, oh, while we're learning Your Excellency, I suggest you dig the concept of global democracy and individual liberties and tell your extensive power-gripping family about it.
Because they really suck in that respect.
Estimating that the terrorists underestimated the resolve of Saudi civilians and the government's response to terrorism, Your Excellency added:
This is perhaps the biggest mistake that they have madeWell Your Excellency, I kind of disagree.
Their biggest mistake was to fly airliners into two high towers and a large pentagonal building.
Their second biggest mistake was that these buildings were located in the USA.
Their third biggest mistake was to let the passengers of AA flight 93 use their cell phones and learn about the two previous biggest mistakes.
After that, they made no mistakes.
They just paid the price of their sequential errors, all the way down to Riyadh.
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