You’re spot on. In a former life I once had an embassy marine deliver an “officially important” package to me in a third world country. Of course he stayed to return the package when I finished. The contents? The daily DoS news clippings.

Bureaucracy + mass delusion of self importance = US State Department.

Diplomatic nuance is overrated. To be effective foreign policy positions must be logical, based in national principles and communicated in a clear and consistent manner. But then, of course, we wouldn’t need so many professional diplomats. Creative ambiguity in diplomacy is rarely required. When it is required, it is most often executed ham-handedly by the striped pants from Foggy Bottom.

People would laugh their asses off if they saw those clowns at work. Effective diplomats are nearly as rare at DoS as are Republicans.

Okay, I’m going back to staring at the Web and TV, believing my lying eyes.

Oh, and quoting Martin Luther King – so who is that quote aimed at, the vast Arab world that has no idea who that is, let alone speaks English – or, wait for it, the gullible fraction of the Americans who voted for this guy and signed him up as their personal Jesus?

Did anyone else pick up on this uniquely Arabic language? No Western politician or journalist would *ever* use the word “unjust” because it’s so dadblamed subjective. But Arabs use it all the time in their ceaseless whining about the cruel fates bestowed upon them by Israel, America and the tribe over the sand dune. Now Obama just happens to throw it into his little speech casually …?