National Post | 01Feb2011 | Orest Slepokura
http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2011/02/01/todays-letters-mubarak-hes-our-sob/#ixzz1CiMIb9ni
Mubarak: He's our SOB
Re: Revolution
Surprises The West ... Again, Peter Goodspeed, Jan. 29, 2011.
An apocryphal story alleges that in 1939, U.S. president Franklin
Roosevelt remarked that while the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza
was "an SOB", he was nonetheless "our SOB" -- the accent falling on the
possessive adjective "our". So we cut him plenty of slack, the logic
went.
Several generations on, that word is again bedeviling American
diplomacy in the Arab world, as one by one America's SOBs across the
Levant and beyond are at risk of being ousted from power by the fury
roiling the masses. Not least because now, where world opinion is
concerned, the accent clearly falls on the acronym SOB.
Orest Slepokura,
Strathmore, Alta.
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http://www.ottawasun.com/comment/letters/2011/01/30/17092591.html
(They just don’t make SOBs like they used to)
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters/article/931761--arab-world-s-berlin-wall