You know how in the James Bond movies, Bond is always the cool one, on top of things and in control, while Felix Leiter, the C.I.A. agent who shadowed him, was always the macho asshole who was the last to know what was really going on.
We are Felix Leiter in terms of foreign policy as well:
"'We have been trying hard to get other nations to live up to the joint commitment Nato made to Afghanistan and provide more forces, forces which are authorised to fight', he said in a statement released by the Ministry of Defence."
Scots should mourn that Browne remains in office . . . bloody radge.
ReplyDeleteExcellent analogy Wizard. And true, when Browne talks of UK troops, what he means is Scotts.
ReplyDeleteRight ye are, drpuma.
ReplyDeleteScots have been Britain's main source of cannon fodder since the 1707 Act of Union, despite their (failed) Jacobite attempts to break away from the "United" Kingdom.
There's an apropos (jaysus, Wizard, did I just use that word??) song by Rabbie Burns about such pro-Unionist bastards.
If they can't have their way entirely in Dublin, there's always "North Britain" to bleed.
"Apropos of my jouissance, Zukovsky..."
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