Rectums français
Mark Steyn should be given the Silver Star for his columns. At least, I expect him to after this glowing description of Donald Rumsfeld's real usefulness in the Bush Administration.
That's Rumsfeld's function -- to take the polite fictions and drag them back to the real world. During the Afghan campaign, CNN's Larry King asked him, "Is it very important that the coalition hold?" The correct answer -- the Powell-Blair-Gore-Annan answer -- is, of course, "Yes." But Rummy decided to give the truthful answer: "No." He went on to explain why: "The worst thing you can do is allow a coalition to determine what your mission is." Such a man cannot be happy at the sight of the Guinean tail wagging the French rectum of the British hind quarters of the American dog.Funny, and informative. But I can't get that image of the French rectum out of my head....
