Sunday, September 24, 2006

The Bowels of Rhetoric


Is this man dangerous or is he made of straw? I'd say the latter. But what should disturb you is that the rumbling train of discourse has certainly jumped the tracks. Read on from here:
"It has been one of the most shrill displays of anti-Americanism in recent years," noted one Security Council envoy, referring to the Chavez and Ahmadinejad double-act. Nile Gardiner, of the Heritage Foundation, said: "This is a huge public diplomacy challenge, but also a strategic threat." He called the Chavez Devil invocation "the strongest attack from any foreign leader on US soil in decades". (emphasis added)
Now I ask you, how on earth is Hugo Chavez mouthing off at the UN a strategic threat? Perhaps his Foreign Minister had stolen state secrets and that was why he was detained, and strip searched when leaving the U.S., in violation of every diplomatic protocol in existence.

If it was this guy spouting off I would be a little more worried:

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