THANKS, GUYS.  ANY TIME – AT 9:38 P.M. ET:  You know, I think someone from an American charm school should venture over to the Muslim and Arab countries and teach these worthies two words:  "Thank you."  Apparently, they're not in the current vocabulary. 

Get the comments of this gent, who's running for the presidency of Egypt:

The Arab League chief said on Sunday that Arabs did not want military strikes by Western powers that hit civilians when the League called for a no-fly zone over Libya.

In comments carried by Egypt's official state news agency, Secretary-General Amr Moussa also said he was calling for an emergency Arab League meeting to discuss the situation in the Arab world and particularly Libya.

The guy is just politicking, trying to pick up the reflexive anti-American vote in Egypt.

"What is happening in Libya differs from the aim of imposing a no-fly zone, and what we want is the protection of civilians and not the bombardment of more civilians," he said.

"He requested official reports about what happened in Libya in terms of aerial and marine bombardment that led to the deaths and injuries of many Libyan civilians. He pointed out that he asked for the full data to know what actually happened," MENA said.

Western forces have unleashed their biggest military attack in the Arab world since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, targeting Muammar Gadhafi's air defenses and armored vehicles near the rebel stronghold of Benghazi in the east of the country.

A few hours after the first missiles struck, Gadhafi called on "citizens of the Arab and Islamic nations" and other developing countries to "stand by the heroic Libyan people to confront this aggression".

But Arabs from North Africa to the Gulf, many demanding political rights for the first time, dismissed the appeal from a leader whose four decades of authoritarian and capricious rule have exhausted any reserves of sympathy.

COMMENT:  The classic "it's your fault" response of the some of the Arab Leaguers tells us much of what we have to know about why the Arab world never gets anywhere.  We hope that if Amr Moussa gets to be president of Egypt, he wises up.  In the Arab world, that would count as a political miracle.

March 20, 2011