And speaking of foreign policy, how about that Nicolas Sarkozy, the first leader of a nation to dare suggest boycotting the China Summer Olympics this year (here – I know it’s only the opening ceremony, but at least it’s something; of course, Dubya will just show up and do what he does best, which is act like nothing’s wrong and behave like a dunce.)So where are all the neocon simpatico chattering idiots and “keyboard kommandos” now, by the way? Why aren’t they calling for President George W. Milhous Bush to pass on the Games to protest China’s crackdown in Tibet (to say nothing of Darfur also) the way they clamored for the Iraq war over five years ago?
Oh, right – a boycott doesn’t involve blowing things up and sending in our military to try and remake a country the way we want, does it? Silly me…
And another thing: I guess we’re also not going to witness such spectacles as renaming certain high-calorie foods as “freedom fries” and “freedom toast” then, are we (since, after all, France, a county to which we owe a debt for helping us out after the Revolutionary War about 220 years ago…and yes, I know we paid it back in good measure during two World Wars…insulted our “friend” China, a country we established diplomatic relations with only about 36 years ago – of all the impudence!).
Well, then, I think it would serve us right if, for example, France took one of its native animals and renamed it accordingly (the only one that comes to mind immediately is the poisonous adder snake, which of course will now be referred to as Jonah Goldberg).
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