Dowbrigade

The Dowbrigade is deeply disturbed about continued United States support for hereditary oligarchies like the despicable regime in Saudi Arabia. There is, in our opinion, no place in the modern world for nations kidnapped and held in thrall by bandit families or clans with no legitimate claim to power beyond ruthlessness and perfidy.

In an open Democracy like the United States, where merit and hard work are the defining characteristics of the ruling class, it is only chance and national good fortune to have found two such leaders in one family. And if, as is looking increasingly likely, that Brother Jeb is being groomed to take up the mantle in a grand Bush-Clinton confrontation in ‘08, that will be but further proof that it is ability not paternity that counts in the US. The whole idea of a heredity-based government is so Anti-American as to be unimaginable in an American context.

Hereditary despotic rulers should be hunted down like dogs, or like Udam and Qusay and Saddam Hussein Hopefully, a change of party in the White House will result in a change in foreign policy to withdraw support for clan regimes like Saudi Arabia and Jordan (where King Abdullah took over after the death of his father King Hussein) and refuse to negotiate with North Korea (where KIM Chong-il has ruled since his father and the country’s founder, president KIM Il-song, died in 1994).

Whichever of the two Democratic Party power centers, the Kennedy family in the East or the Clinton Family in the West, is sure to bring some righteous wrath to bear when confronting these medieval hereditary, blood-based regimes. Times have certainly changed.