Karen Hughes Can I Charge An Amen

Hughes began her third Middle East tour yesterday. I've yet to see any fashion reports on her apparel or cutesy anecdotes of her travels but Karen was never one for striding across the windy tarmac in a black swashbuckling trenchcoat and high black boots, a la Condi Johnny Cash.

Perhaps no fashion statements because we're to believe Karen, Secretary Of Public Diplomacy, (and Bush's favorite babysitter), is more serious in her job to "improve America's standing in the region." But, I'd really like to know what serious diplomats wear to meet and greet, now that I know to wear a blackshirt like Condi when in Wiesbaden.

Publicly Hughes is a "diplomat," the official "public appeaser" or "fixer." The term fixer works best as it is someone who conducts business (sometimes illegally) to benefit their client (in this case BushAngloCo) who may have a history of illegal activity. The appeaser aspect assures the public that our leaders are doing their best to promote world peace, and improved "standing."

We are to believe (be appeased) that Karen, flying around the ME on our dime, is in pursuit of bringing understanding of America to the Muslim world; to help them understand American policy, since obviously many of them can't "stand" it. Karen must convince the Muslim world that the majority of the Anglo world wish them only freedom and democracy, and if they would just listen to the oppressive regimes we support, we wouldn't have to kill so many "terrorists."

But! Cantankerous me, I put forth that the ever political professional Ms. H. is not on a noble mission to spread America's freedom, or to crusade for more understanding relations between Joe Blow and Mohammed Blow. Lord no, "they" need Joe and Mo to hate and kill one another.

Her "charge to keep" is in the hymn " "To serve the present age, my calling to fulfill; O may it all my powers engage to do my Master's will." (BushAngloCo being the master.) Or in Jesuspeak "Fight the good fight of the faith … I charge you to keep this command … amen (1 Timothy 6:12-16). It's too bad Bush has dropped most of the gospel out of his rhetoric as it could provide more conspicuous clues to when and which tree they plan to nail the world on.

Hughes may be forced to address the torture, Gitmo, and cartoons in front of tokenary groups of Dubai students, NGOs, and local community leaders but her real fixer job is at the "major gathering of Islamic political, academic and business leaders." Business leaders the key word here.

She's assuring those suits (or in this case maybe turbans), that UAE control of those 6 US ports is a done deal – ignore the political cattle calls for "hearings," and vowing that seeming reluctance by Hillary, Schumer, etc. is just the usual staged pols wanking off their base with their pandering hand. No one is going to stop the deal.

After visiting Dubai and United Arab Emirates (US Sheik, Inc.) Hughes will take her how-to-improve understanding skills for a stopover in Germany. Likely to meet Germany's new Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and bob heads, expressing agreement in their two nations complete support of "Israel's policy in the wake of Hamas' win in the Palestinian parliamentary elections" (another "charge to keep" : keep down the Palestinians). "Merkel also said she agrees with Israel's decision to withhold the transfer of Palestinian Authority tax monies to the Palestinians until it can ascertain the revenue is not used to fund terror activities." (See, European pols kiss Israel's assets as much as ours do.)

But concern over "standing" between the US and Muslim world is not really on Hughes charge radar. No, no. It's all about God's divinely chosen finances as usual. Amen.