World, Shut Your Mouth
By Mitch Berg
My mom called last night to tell me a bunch of her foreign friends were upbeat about the election results.
I thought about that as I read this bit about overseas reactions
And I thought – how typical is this?
The French want to whinge about “unilateral foreign policy?” The French have always run their foreign policy for the pure, simple benefit of France – which was why they provided nuclear technology to Hussein in the first place; They propped up the technology, defenses and trade of the the genocidal Hussein (going as far as building the nuclear reactor that the Israelis finally had to destroy 25 years ago) to buy themselves an ally in the region. The French have never bought into multilateral foreign policy – except to leverage their own self-serving interests; Whenever some gabbling Frog refers to “cowboy diplomacy”, I have to chuckle – the surrender monkeys invented the concept of diplomacie des enfants du vache.
Germans yakking about human rights? It was within the lifetime of your current leadership that we Americans taught you that gassing people by the trainload was a serious social gaffe. Kuess mei’ Sitzfleisch, Linker, and thank the US for not treating you the way the Soviets did – the way you deserved to be treated after what your nation did to the world (conservatives – find a liberal friend and tell ’em what the Germans and Soviets did to each other; all any of them remembers about history is the Indians, Slavery and the Civil Rights movement). To the extent that your nation has any moral capital to spend on yammering about human rights, you borrowed it from the souls of hundreds of thousands of Americans, Brits and Canadians who died teaching you the lesson.
Turks yipping about Guantanamo?; Go rent Midnight Express.
Sorry, whole wide world. When any of you are qualified to lecture the US about diplomacy, human rights or morality at large, we’ll let you know.
The post title is taken from this 1986 song. Which has nothing to do with diplomacy, but I enjoyed it anyway.
November 10th, 2006 at 10:30 pm
It IS! It IS PB!
November 11th, 2006 at 8:27 am
Oh, yeah:
I’d guess I could win a trivia contest on WWII
As to trivia, you’d probably guess wrong. As to analysis of the actual lessons learned, you’d definitely guess wrong.
but that said, I don’t think I’ve ever said anything quite so disgusting about neo-cons.
You’ve never accused “neocons” of not knowing their history? And that woulda been disgusting?
Your threshold for disgust must be very low.