The shocker would be if he'd live to be 93.
At any rate, for Americans, it should be no more visits to the quaint, lawless United Kingdom and no more Obamas.
Wonderful post, thank you. The article lays the entire mess at the door of Obama, where it belongs...since the highest form of flattery is imitation. And speaking of our Great Leader, the latest issue of the Vineyard Gazette, (a Martha Vineyard newspaper), front page: photo of pond and low bushes with a long fawning essay to Obama. Evidently the editor had a tingle up his leg. The paper was three times as thick, full of ads...local businesses (suffering due to Obama’s economic policies), hoping he’ll bring in a few bucks.
Besides whiskey, does Scotland make anything these days?
Gordon Brown seems like such a sad sack. Is this going to finish him in the upcoming election? I am interested what any of the Anglophiles here think.
Gheddafi - and let’s be honest - he’s the one responsible for the Pan Am attack, paid blood money (also for the Libyan attack against the La Belle Disco in Germany where Americans were killed and injured).
That blood money was accepted and for reasons of commerce (OIL) and for reasons of state (supposedly dismantling a weapons program) he regained his virginity, becoming acceptable again as a partner.
It’s called REALPOLITIK and for the principled it’s not pretty. Perhaps it wasn’t the case to make a mass murderer one of the “good ole boys” again, but this sordid ending also had a sordid beginning when the west accepted payment without repentance. Murdered human beings (aplenty) were paid for, washed with gasoline... and their memory already puffing out of mufflers and smokestacks before this last disgrace.
Wesley Pruden is an amazing columnist, week in and week out. I am surprised he never achieved much popularity . and you never see him on the various news shows.
...Mr. MacAskill, who feels circumstances beyond his control beginning to close in on him, says he asked the British government for its "views" before releasing the terrorist...
Given the relationship between the SNP government in Scotland, Labour in general and Gordon Brown in particular, an equally if not more likely scenario is that McAskill asked London for its 'views', and then proceeded to do the exact opposite.