State Dept. Official on Al Jazeera: US Trying to Encourage Hell in Arab World
Charles Johnson
Tue Oct 24, 2006 at 3:40 pm PDT • Views: 133
State Department official Alberto Fernandez apologized Sunday for saying on Al Jazeera TV that the US had been “stupid” and “arrogant.” But at The Corner, James Robbins found another Al Jazeera interview with Fernandez from September 6 that may be even worse:
I think that there are factors providing negative American thoughts in the Middle East. First, we should admit that there’s an American haughtiness and stupidity. We know that the U.S. made a lot of mistakes. And we said that about Iraq and other countries. Second, there’s hypocrisy in the Arab regimes. The Arab regimes want to present to the world and to their populations a decisive option, either the dictatorial regime or chaos. No third option. There’s no possibility of gradual fortification. It’s either non stop tyranny forever or chaos just like what we saw in Iraq sometimes. Third, there are the efforts of extremists and non democrats in the region. That means we’re all guilty to some extent towards the existing situation in the Arab world. Today, no doubt, Americans, corrupted Arab regimes and other people, organizations and individuals are trying intentionally to encourage hell in the Arab world.
Frank says: