The 'International Community' does not include Me

The International Community is posturing over a number of events relating to Iran, Zimbabwe, Burma or some other unfortunate people on a daily basis.
The Grand Old Dame of Fife in his efforts to look macho feels the need to lie down legs in the air to satisfy Bush and Co.
Soon, we can expect to see the EU, speaking with one voice under Blair, calling for more Liberal Intervention without as much as by-your-leave to the people who supply the canon fodder for these mad adventures.

The following was originally posted on the, now defunct, site hosted by Mr Pike Bishop.
Looking over it I can see that 18 months on things don't change much.

'Dear Agony Aunt, how can I become part of the International Community?

Spent a long time abroad. I was part of the International Community.
Lots of Cockney barrow boys, lots of Yanks, lots of Froggies, lots of other foreigners.
One time we counted 13 different nationalities in the local pub - all speaking English.
Came back here. Found that I was no longer part of the International Community.

Why?.
"Once again North Korea has defied the will of the international community, and the international community will respond,"

Aha. Now I know.

'"But the international community is running out of time because soon its own credibility in terms of enforcing its own resolutions will be (...) a matter of question," said Rice, who is pressing for sanctions.'

(The Straw Man picked a babe; looks wonderful in a sheer veil and cilice, I bet.)

Then I saw that Hazel Blears was the one in command for that day. 'Android of the Year' award to follow.
' One of those factors is supporting the rest of the international community to tackle terrorism.'


Please help me, I didn't say any of these things but my Government has said them for me.
What can I do?
Is there any hope for me, I appear to be dis-enfranchinternationalcommunitised.
There is no hope. Or, is there?.
Well, yes and no.
There is no hope when we leave it to our 'elected' leaders. They are going to do what they want regardless of our wishes.
On the other hand, our Little International Community functioned quite well without the interference of Politicians.
It included some Koreans (they loved whisky) as well as an Iranian (he loved the local chicks and I really enjoyed going 'round for round' with him as he didn't drink alcohol).
I lived with an American Quaker lassie and my best buddy was a Yankee who made MisterD seem positively wishy-washy pinko.
We even had an unfortunate guy, with 'bad stomach' problems, who was known as 'The Japanese Sniper'.
(You can't see him but he is deadly at 500 paces).
Yet another motley crew. Fine.
Point is that that we managed to come to equilibrium without resorting to threats or sanctions or actual attacks.
Is it too much to ask our government to speak with us before acting on our behalf?.
Or, is International agreement only possible for us people who don't know any better?.'

PorkBelly Futures in One Easy Lesson.

Mary had a little pig,
She kept it fat and plastered;
And when the price of pork went up,
She shot the little bastard.

Pig Ignorant Foreign Secretaries R Us.

I don't know which was more shocking.


Last night on Question Time, we saw David 'the Man who would be King' Miliband telling us that, in his first briefing on Zimbabwe as Foreign Secretary, he 'was horrified to find out' that Mr. Mugabe was actually Sir Robert Mugabe (12.45 mins into the programme).

One panelist asked, incredulously, 'You became Foreign Secretary without knowing that?'

Last night, we also saw that Lord Hurd didn't even remember (hic!) that Sir Robert had been recommended for his Knighthood when HE was Foreign Secretary adding, something a bit like, 'Well, we knew he had killed 20,00 in MatabeleLand, but he had hosted a Commonwealth Conference, after all' (13.30 mins into the programme).

If that is the calibre of Foreign Secretary we have enjoyed over the past 20 years, no wonder we have had such a fucked-up Foreign Policy leading to the deaths of untold millions.

It was easy for us in Britain to laugh at John 'fries for brains' McCain and say that he had a 'senior moment' when he didn't know the difference between Sunni and Shia in Iraq ( I doubt whether he even realised that the Shia and the Sunni exist in other countries).

In fact, with these kind of people allowed to be in charge, the laugh is on us.


PS for those of you who want to hear Miliband, last year, saying that - one year on - we would be clamouring for the return of Tony Blair
here it is.

Round about one minute thirty seconds.

What a loser.