Well, well, well: small world. And to Ben Stein — with all the accusations of rape and sexual assault now being made by DSK’s French victims, it looks like you’re being solicitous of the welfare of a serial rapist and hardcore lecher.

>>I think you may find that the mission to get Osama bin Laden and the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn has raised American prestige in the Third World to heights unprecedented since the invasion of Iraq, quite unintentionally. I know the conventional wisdom says that America was hated from the moment it invaded Iraq, but as Lee Smith recounts in his book, The Strong Horse and as I myself witnessed in Lebanon, it positively thrilled much of the Arab street, only they will only confess it in secret.

If you go down to the Times of India you will read comment after comment that says “only in America could such a powerful man be taken off an airplane and made to parade in a police lineup”; “this is true democracy” and “my faith in the world has been restored”. For a world that is accustomed to watching the powerful stamp on the faces of the common man, this the arrest is wonderous, almost unbelievable and nearly on par with the sight of SEALs fleeting through Abbottabad.

I do not say this to prejudge DSK, who may be innocent, only to point out that this is the way much of the world likes to see America; mighty, confident and meting out almost magical justice with seeming effortlessness.

The USS Carl Vinson was recently in Manila, and President Aquino and his cabinet were like delighted kids at an amusement park just waiting to see the F-18s catapaulted off the deck, and the acres of dark gray nonskid-surfaced steel deck dotted with tie-down points, and most of all, though they were requested not to ask, and politely never dreamed of asking, where Bin Laden went to Davy Jones. It was one of those moments when the visitors, in a transformation peculiar to that country, felt proud to be Americans and behaved themselves that way, even if they were technically not.

The truth is that nobody loves an America that goes around shopping apologies. Nor do they like an America that acts like the old Soviet Union. But they do unabashedly love a USA as it dreams to be; with the FBI running down the bad guys and the Marines shooting up the extraterrestrial monsters in Los Angeles. When Superman stands on a skyscraper and proudly proclaims that he aims to uphold Truth, Justice and the American Way he is expressing a secret fantasy felt in so many of the downtroddden parts of the world. “Gee how I wish we had someone like that!” And if you look carefully at the faces staring at the screen, you will see no sophisticated derision; only tears of hopeful joy.

A Savile Row suit, silk shirt, nice tie, and Gucci shoes while carrying a briefcase containing a MP 5 and a few 30 round mags is more their style.

Government is necessary, but if not kept severely limited, it easily becomes a monster. IMF, UN, and all the governments and bureaucracies of the world, if not kept on a short leash, are prone to great evil. Its not a conspiracy, its an matter or human nature.

Now that depends now, doesn’t it?
In most American accounts, even though she accused one of the most powerful men in the world of a heinous crime that doesn’t make sense even considering his past behavior, and doesn’t seem to fit with the initial timeline, her name is still shielded. Meanwhile every alleged incident from his past is being dredged up and taken as gospel proof.

Meanwhile, unlike MOST Joe Schmoe rapists this is one of very few in the world I could believe someone would try to take down with a false accusation.

And how is she fearing for her life when he’s sitting in Rikers? Last I heard, he wasn’t a mafioso. I suppose the IMF could have some thugs that dress in black..

I agree about the risk of transmission. But if the egotistical pr*ck has to sweat it out a little in Rikers’ medical isolation area, I don’t see the problem.

And yes, Brad, she’s an alleged victim at this point who, by her allegations, just threw open her medical situation for all the world to read. Plus, fearing for her life, the alleged victim went into hiding from the rich and powerful alleged perpetrator.

Presidential libraries don’t fund themselves, you know.

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