The Brilliant Technocrat Amr Moussa
The Arab League will finally open a new franchise in Baghdad after years of indecision and internal squabbling. Their new logo will consist of "Two Arabs kissing cheek-to-cheek in a 1969 Ford Mustang" and their new motto will be "Over 300 Million NOT Served."
They are currently in the process of selecting a former corrupt official (with an affinity for free Italian designer suits - preferably Ermenegildo Zegna) to head the new franchise.
According to the Associated Press report, the Arab League will open its offices as "part of its efforts to help reconcile the country's Sunni Arab, Shiite and Kurdish communities," quoting Secretary-General Amr Moussa.
The AP article continues:
"The United States has been seeking greater Arab involvement in Iraq, hoping to give legitimacy to the current government. But Arab nations were long reluctant, fearing participation would be seen as condoning the U.S. invasion, which many of them opposed.
Iraq's new Shiite leadership was also suspicious of the Arab League, seeing it as biased toward Iraq's Sunni Arab minority.
But last year, the league made efforts to get involved. Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa visited Iraq, then the league hosted a reconciliation conference in Cairo in November between Iraq's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish leaders".
In the past Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari had criticized the Arab League over its neglect concerning the Iraqi people and for not dispatching any official envoy to Baghdad.
Naturally, "President" Amr Moussa continues to blame the American presence in Iraq for the dozens of murders, car bombings, assassinations, and attacks on Holy Sites that continue to be perpetrated.
It's an ideal solution for the Arab League: a 2nd "Reconciliation" summit that will attempt to bring Shia, Sunni and Kurdish leaders again, while ignoring the foreign demagogue and terrorist element that continues to destabilize Iraq vise a vise the Middle Eastern states or organizations that funnel support to those elements.
Judging by the upcoming "2nd Reconciliation Summit" last year's "Reconciliation Summit" must have been a smashing success.
Nevertheless, one must be fair, the Arab League has contributed to the cultural, political and social gravitas of the Middle East. It has provided dozens of hours of bootleg and public footage and transcripts featuring delegations taunting each other as "monkeys," the tossing of ashtrays at one another, heads of state threatening each other with "oblivion", and the like.
I'll take that footage any day over DVD boxed sets of LOST and THE SOPRANOS put together.
Next time the Arab League meets, get your popcorn out.
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