Friday, October 29, 2010

But they try harder

A U.S. State Department spokesman did not question Iran's right to assist Afghanistan, but questioned Tehran's motives, given its history of playing a "destabilising role with its neighbours".
Still only scoring 2nd-equal in "Total number of Iraq and Afghanistan governments toppled".

8 comments:

mikey said...

Clearly, the US has a bit of a distorted view of what constitutes "interference with a sovereign government" and, additionally, has a little difficulty with that whole "regional sphere of influence" thingie.

On the other hand, we can kick your ass. So who you gonna believe?

Emma said...

Excuse me, we do not "destabilize." We "liberate." For Jesus. I am not surprised you don't know the difference, down there in heathen New Zealand. (Now that you don't have hobbits, we don't have to pretend to be nice to you anymore.)

mikey said...

If the bloody bastards would stay dead.

Often, late at night, they come back asking stupid, pointless questions that even if I knew the goddam answer wouldn't make them any less dead and I killed them when I was younger and scared and stupid and you'd think at some fucking point they'd leave me alone..

Hamish Mack said...

I do not mind libations for Jebus and we are not heavin', just gently pulsing.
We do so got Hobittesesez, we sold our sovereignty fair and square for them!

Smut Clyde said...

If the bloody bastards would stay dead.

I thought for a moment that you meant that troublesome Jesus dude.

Emma said...

We do so got Hobittesesez, we sold our sovereignty fair and square for them!
All kidding aside, that was awful. I wanted to crawl under something and then read only the biographies of historical personages for the rest of my life after I heard the terms under which Jackson and his backers wished to continue the saga of Middle-earth. Agh.

Smut Clyde said...

We do so got Hobittesesez

Peter Jackson has been dead to me, ever since the post-production of "Return of the King", when the call went out for extras for some final scenes to pad out teh siege of Gondor. They wanted decrepit yet noble-looking ginjas (to be non-battle-fit Rohirrim refugees or something).
But did I ever hear back from them?
CROSSED OFF MY XMAS-CARD LIST.

Hamish Mack said...

You too real for them, Smut.
Thanks Emma it was pretty yuck, I watched some of the Parliament TV debate over out new Employment as Actors laws and it was not pretty. Stanley Kubrick said "The big nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes". This time it wasn't even a nation, just a corporation and we put out.