[boxerblues]

Unfortunalty the folks at the UN will never get it. They will continue to go though life dismayed, shocked and saddened that life is not as they see it through the rose colored glass's living the life of a diplomat

[Foxfire4]

He also "condemned in the strongest possible terms" the Palestinian suicide terrorist attack in Jerusalem.

I've figured out one of the things that bugs me about UN-speak. I don't want to see Palestinian terrorism "condemned in the strongest possible terms", I want some actual TERMS. Adjectives are good: "vicious", "brutal", "cowardly". Nouns too: "atrocity", "murder", "homicide". Combine the adjectives and nouns and you can get really precise. Wonder why the U.N. hasn't figured that out yet? (/deadpan)