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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (97336)5/4/2003 11:04:57 AM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
"I will always have that lying in my background software and on my hard drive," he told reporters.

For an ex-militry type, Powell certainly has a brilliant way with words. Allow me to deconstruct.

The two obvious meanings were the implicit reference to the lie he was told by Assad when he promised an end to the Iraqi oil shipments to Syria. The second one is the fact that he has stored the lie in his hard-drive and background software so that it lies embedded in these systems.

The more veiled meaning--and scarier one to Assad, if he even gets it--is the use of high-tech terms to deliver a diplomatic message. It may have been designed to remind Assad of the technological wizardy that played such an important part in Saddam's swift demise. The marrying of diplomacy and high tech should make Assads's threat antennae twitch mightily.

Will he get it?

C2@pearlsbeforeswine.com
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