Hypocrisy and homophobia

Hypocrisy is an essential element in diplomacy.As Oscar Wilde or somebody once said, hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue. And, to continue the quotation game, diplomats are, according to Lord Palmerston, people sent abroad to lie for their country.

Condoleezza Rice is the US top diplomat, so one should normally expect her to titrate the truth. No one expects anything vaguely resembling the truth to issue from the lips of George Bush, even when he's making what seems to be sense.
But this week's performances have been landmarks in the history of hypocrisy, especially since huge expanses of the US press appear to have become accredited members of the US diplomatic apparatus.
The president of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili, is an American puppet installed after one of the trademark colour-coded 'revolutions' in Eastern Europe. Georgia's was the 'rose' revo, following the 'orange' revo in the Ukraine, both part of the supposedly invisible American campaign to encircle the Russians with hostile regimes, Lilliputian warriors primed to tie down the Russian Gulliver and render him harmless and ready to yield billions of barrels of petroleum to Mr Cheney's friends.
According to the US government and its official press, Russia, that big bad bully, has cruelly attacked and mauled poor little Georgia - a shining light of western style-democracy in the formerly limitless expanse of Soviet empire.

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