Dar Al Hayat comments on Obama's foreign policy
Dar Al Hayat is an Arab news organization. Their stories are mostly in Arabic (so beyond my reach) but I was interested in one of their translated articles. Of course it has some inevitable positions: US policy must help the Palestinians, and stop helping the Israelis, but let's look at a few other comments:
So let's get this straight... an Arab media organization is saying that Obama's foreign policy is incompetent, infatuated with dialogue, and that it is weakening the moderates, and strengthening the extremists. Ummm. What kind of extremist right wing fascist organization is Al Hayat? Well, Wikipedia describes it like this:Let us take Lebanon for instance... [which isn't being helped by] US policy which lacks rigor, perenniality and perhaps even competence... the Obama Administration must realize... that its policies towards both Iran and Syria... are radically contributing to strengthening the forces of defiance against the forces of moderation, to undermining democracy in Lebanon... The Barack Obama Administration’s infatuation with dialogue and its overlooking violations to protect such dialogue only constitute ammunition for Iran and Syria to persist in obstructing legitimate rule in Lebanon.
It is the newspaper of record for the Arab diaspora and the preferred tribune for left-wing or liberal intellectuals who wish to express themselves to a large public.Hmmm, so it's basically the New York Times of the Arab world? As Glenn Reynolds would say: heh.

Reading the Arab media is always fascinating. It's just never quite what you expect, even when you've been reading it for a long time. And Dar al-Hayat is one of the best.
Comment by Bi-Coloured-Python-Rock-Snake — September 13, 2009 @ 12:05 am