Strategery In Egypt?

As I perused Hewitt's blog tonight I was struck that W may be so far ahead of the curve that even Hugh doesn't get it. Witness his (well deserved) salute to Lileks early in the post:

George W. Bush added to his many excellent speeches last night, and Lileks is right to note "And hello, Egypt! Welcome to the Axis of Damn Well Better Get Your Act Together!" Sitting in a studio last night listening to various pundits talk on, I wasn't in a hurry to jump in. The president is in complete command of the stage and the Democrats have taken the domestic bait and turned themselves into hoarse shouters of "No! Never!' Reactionaries who must feel as the Republicans of 1933 did -speaking the words of confident comeback, but aware that they are cornered for a generation as a party of obstinate indifference to change, incapable of ideas or innovation.

He then shifts his attention to Jordan Eason's one man Ra^thergate II fiasco. So down along the post appears this with nary a snarky Hugh comment:

"The reality is that we are a US-based news channel, but that doesn't mean we're American in perspective with our international service. In fact the person who oversees all our international outlets is not an American at all, he's British, and we hired him from the BBC several years ago. There are more than fifty nationalities of journalists who work at CNN International producing that service. If we were to move CNN's base to Egypt maybe they'd say we're Egyptian—you have to be based somewhere. It's the people who produce the channel and the people who provide the reporting who are really responsible for it, and those are people from all over the world, the very best journalists and program makers we can find. No matter what CNN International does, as long as CNN's headquarters is in the United States people are going to say, well, it's an American service. But the reality is that it's an international service based in the United States, and we don't make any apologies about that."

There goes W with that strategery again! After us blog monsters drive CNN to Egypt then at last W will have Christianne right where he wants her.

Well, soon after the upcoming American-sponsored democratic elections in Iran, anyway.

And only a few have commented on the interesting little twist that Iraqi exiles (even if they were mostly Baathist thugs) were allowed to vote freely in Syria -- where any local elections are pure farce.

A little food for thought for the Syrian populace, no?