Translation of this: “we’re fucking useless”. Not that the U.S. has been better; argubly, we’ve been even worse. Chimpy McHilterburton doesn’t exactly look like a world-despoiling warmongering tyrant now, does he, kids? I mean, there’s an oil pipeline there. Aren’t Cheney and his plutocrat oil buddies just slavering to take control of the Trans-Caucasian oil and gas routes? And if not, why not? Clearly their shareholders need to pressure them to pull their puppet’s strings and get going.

Seriously, though, Europe’s delusional “soft power” thinking is going to get a lot of people killed.

Confucius, Œc. Vol.

Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.