Saturday, September 26, 2009

Bloody Americans

According to Princeton scholar Bernard Lewis, in a letter correcting the Wall Street Journal, it was a Turkish general, speaking shortly after Turkey joined NATO, who said:

"The problem with having the Americans as your allies is that you never know when they'll turn around and stab themselves in the back."

Lewis has merely dined out on this quotation, for more than half his life. (He is now 93.)

The remark itself is better than a column in describing the horrible night that is descending upon Honduras, where a totalitarian maniac -- Manuel Zelaya -- is being manoeuvred back into power by the international Left.