'Great Men' Have Grating Effect On Mideast

by Mark Steyn - July 16th, 2006 - The Chicago Sun-Times

I was on the road the other night and so found myself watching CNN's coverage of Israel, Lebanon, Gaza, etc. It was "Larry King Live," and it was one of those shows where Larry interviews great men about what needs to be done and the great men all agree that what needs to be done is that the president needs to get other great men involved to "broker" a "deal." Sen. Chuck Hagel proposed that Bush appoint Colin Powell or Jim Baker as his Special Envoy; Sen. Barbara Boxer proposed that Bush appoint Madeleine Albright as his Even More Special Envoy. Sen. George Mitchell, who himself served as Extra-Special Super-Duper Envoy a few years back, proposed that Bush involve the European Union. And someone else proposed the G-8. And Larry suggested Putin. Oh, and some smooth-talking apologist in Savile Row pinstripes proposed Chirac, because he and Bush had agreed a U.N. resolution on something or other a year or two back.

Aside from Larry's closing tribute to Red Buttons, I've never heard more rubbish in a single hour since . . . well, come to think of it, since the last time I saw "Larry King Live."

This is a great article, and at least one side attribute it can claim is that great last line above. CNN really is epitomized by "Larry King Live". The entire station is so out of the loop they think that Heather Mills is a serious world leader. A former prostitute who conned Paul McCartney into marrying her is now giving the CNN audience political and social advise.

Steyn sees things much more clearly than most of the writers on world affairs. It will be sad if people like Steyn are still being ignored when Iran's nuclear bombs start going off here in America.