November 12, 2004

GEE, THEY RUN THEIR COUNTRIES SO WELL...:

Arafat's Cairo funeral ends in VIP confusion (Reuters, 11/12/04)

Yasser Arafat's solemn funeral procession in Egypt ended with confusion for many on Friday as prime ministers, foreign ministers and other dignitaries were left stranded and searching for their cars in the street.

"It's a mess," said one of the Arab officials, milling around on the roadside after Arafat's coffin entered the Cairo military airbase to be flown to Ramallah.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 12, 2004 10:04 AM
Comments

If it was fiction we'd condemn it as overly heavyhanded metaphor.

Posted by: mike earl at November 12, 2004 10:08 AM

How would you feel if you were assigned to go to the funeral. like maybe it was time buy more life insurance and work on your resume?

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at November 12, 2004 12:55 PM

Chinese fire drill ... in the ancient regime.

Posted by: genecis at November 12, 2004 8:24 PM

I was gonna say that people who cannot organize a one-corpse funeral can hardly be expected to run an actual government, but the Professor beat me to it.

Posted by: Harry Eagar at November 12, 2004 9:47 PM
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