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Those are issues of taste and decorum, and it is not the business of our State Department to comment on such matters.

That statement, coming from an official State Department spokesman, makes us look more scared than France and the person who uttered it is an idiot.

There is more sense in those two sentences than the average State Department functionary could possibly comprehend.

I nominate dead for the post of Ass't Secretary of State for Clear Thinking.

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What's it pay? 8-)