Rodent Regatta

ADVANTAGE PRESIDENT BUSH
This is the best I’ve read about what the President pulled off

Ive been reading reactions to the Presidents UN speech, and Im amused at how people dont seem to get it. Oh, now hes being a multilateralist? Now he believes in the UN? No. That speech was the equivalent of that fabled kung-fu move that removes your opponent’s heart and shows it to you, just before you crumple. Its of a piece with the administrations behavior since 9/11: Let all the carpers and obstructionists gather on the tip of the thinnest branch, then show up with a saw and announce they have five minutes to come hug the trunk, which incidentally is covered with sap and stinging ants. It was sheer malicious brilliance to cast the entire case in terms of UN resolutions, because it mean the UN had to chose: either those resolutions mean something, or the UN means nothing. Why, it’s almost as if the UN painted itself into a corner – and woke up to find this rude simple cowboy holding the brush. How the hell did he do that? [LILEKS (James) THE BLEAT]