14-11-2013, 10:29 AM
Malcolm Pryce Wrote:Hmmm it looks like the Government is in trouble on this one. The language coming out of the US is uncompromising and it's difficult to imagine any government of Airstrip 1 defying the US. But that leaves them in a potentially disastrous situation. What can they do? How come they never foresaw this?
We really need someone to leak this.
And, of course, there's a wonderful post-PRISMatic irony that the US objects to the President's confidentiality being breached.
I agree with all that Malcolm and the 'post-PRISmatic irony' is delicious.
I found myself chuckling a bit over it too; but rueful chuckling - very rueful.
It will interesting to watch the ducking and diving of the UK Establishment as this develops. But I have little doubt that a course acceptable to both will be found and, as always, they'll get clean(ish) away with it.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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