perhaps john dewey will take the job

so...refresh my memory...are secretaries-of-state diplomats or politicians? or some weird hybird of the two? colin powell certtainly lied like a politician about weapons of mass destruction in iraq at the u n in 2003...and now hillary has called bashir al-assad a "reformer"...one wonders how much distance her aides put between themselves and the podium at that press conference from fear of wrathful lightening bolts ( my conversion from apostacy will be instantaneous with those thunderbolts or the longed for lake of fire)...meanwhile moammar qadaffi is still a delusional sociopath who kills his own people...you have to surmise about just what iunput our saudi and israeli friends had in that particualr howler...bashir is a paragon of arab statesmanship because syria is way too close for either of those two parties to sanction libyan style chaos...bashir=stability...syrian revolt=who knows what kind of exteremist arab yahoo rednecks in control...a mass of actions conflicting with espoused ideals...goals-in-view and situational ethics triumphing over reality...a superb utilization of pragmatic naturalism...as old john meant it to be used...i mean when did armed rebels become "civillians" who needed to be protected and tactically aided by nato jets? fortunate for those "civillians" that their immediate aims fall into line with goals-in-view ( one has to assume that diplomacy is utterly deontological)...unfortunately for the syrians bashir is free to act like dad did when somebody crossed him...fuck these people