Dr.LUKE'S iDLE UTTERANCE

いずれもロシア・プラウダ紙から。

サルコジ、ナポレオンの再来として、イランを打つか？

• Sarkozy, the new Napoleon, wants to attack Iran

It seems that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warmed to the role of Napoleon. The events in Libya have infatuated him. Gaddafi has not been toppled yet, but Sarkozy already threatens Iran.

"Its military nuclear and ballistic ambitions constitute a growing threat that may lead to a preventive attack against Iranian sites that would provoke a major crisis that France wants to avoid at all costs," he said. "Iran refuses to negotiate seriously," he told an annual meeting of French diplomats. "Iran is carrying out new provocations in response to the challenge from the international community for it to provide a credible response," he claimed.

NATOはカダフィよりもアサドを討てと。

• NATO needs to remove Assad rather than Gaddafi

AP photoThe Western political elite is increasing pressure on Syria and its allies, forcing the latter to abandon the support for the regime of Bashar Assad. The EU is prepared to adopt new sanctions against Damascus. Syrian authorities have been accused of massive human rights abuses and brutal suppression of the opposition protests. Now the EU and the U.S. are forced to actively introduce international sanctions against Syria.

How far is the West willing to go to support the Syrian opposition? A renowned political scientist, expert at the German Council on Foreign Relations, Alexander Rahr, answered this and other questions in an interview with Pravda.ru.

"It is clear that a triumph of liberalism could not be proved by a liquidation of Gaddafi alone. Now Syria is next in line, and therefore the pressure on it will not be lighter than it was on Libya. For the West, the democratization of Syria is even more important and welcomed moment than the overthrow of Gaddafi and his regime, and after their elimination the focus of the EU will switch to al-Assad. It is therefore obvious that the West's actions against Syria will be very tough and similar to those we saw in Libya."

このプラウダ紙は実に面白いのだ。例えば、

• Aliens to come to Earth to enslave and eat humans

Those who think that the first extraterrestrial beings that will establish an official contact with the human race will be friendly creatures like E.T. are going to be disappointed. NASA scientists say that reasonable inhabitants of other galaxies may come to Earth to destroy our planet because mankind seems to be unable to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

宇宙人が来て、人類を奴隷にして、食っちゃうぞ、と。

対するこちらはイスラエルの対テロ用UAS、"GHOST"。何だかイナゴのようではないだろうか？