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October 16, 2005
Nobel Prize for ... blindness
The United States may not be their Great Satan, but it’s the devil they know. The bureaucrats and the EU anointed are the priesthood - and the Nobel peace prize is the means of bestowing sainthood.Which brings us to its latest recipient: ol’ see-no-evil Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. This is like giving the Surgeon General the Nobel Price for medicine after bird flu depopulates the North American continent. Let’s look at his highlight reel:
Completely whiffed the Libyan nuke program. Failed to notice that Iran had a secret nuclear program going for a fifth of a century. (You can hardly blame them – it was secret, after all. I mean, it’s not like you can barge in and say “what’s all this, then?”) The IAEA also didn’t have a clue about A. Q. Khan, the wannabe Bond villain who ran a nuclear Wal-Mart for rogue states. ElBaradei would have been better off sending Mr. Magoo to ferret out Khan’s network; at least Magoo would have tripped over something.
"Anagram: A Bad Lie, Arab Elide," by James Lileks, October 12, 2005
Posted at October 16, 2005 06:53 AM | Categories: Stupidity
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