Note from my Dad in Amman re: Tunisia #Sidibouzid: Opposition should not "take bait"

[From about 1 hour ago] Just announced from Tunis Television. First minister of Ben Ali's cabinet declared: Because Ben Ali is unable to discharge his responsibilities TEMPORARILY, I am taking over and I promise to implement all promised reforms with the help of all parties and factions. It is rumored that he left to Malta.
Evidently this is a last attempt of a broken dictator to give himself leeway to re attempt  a comeback as he did not actually abdicate!! 
If the opposition takes this bait then it will be the stupidest there is.

Ike and MLK on military establishment and spiritual death

Ike: "This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every Statehouse, every office of the Federal government."

MLK: "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death." 

Thirty years (give or take about 18 hours) after Eisenhower gave his farewell address, George W. Bush launched the Gulf War.