Reply #17: Abdallah is one of the sanest heads of state in the Arab world

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And far more so than ours, I might add (Cheney or Bush, take yer pick).
He is just going by the book of a parliamentary system, and at that in
a country where his nationality (Hashemite Jordanians) are a minority
(there are more Palestinians now living in Jordan than Jordanians).

No need to panic. Who would you rather have as your head of government,
an enlightened King such as Abdallah, or a "president" such as Syria's
Assad, or, indeed, one such as Bush?