The front page of The Times and there are the three men who will solve all our problems for us - the President, the schoolboy and the French dwarf. None of them are what they seem. The President is not really black. Louis Armstrong was black and so was Ella Fitzgerald and moreover they were outstandingly good in their own field, whereas the coffee coloured President keeps on bungling. For the schoolboy read my previous blogs and the French dwarf is chiefly famous for his wife. The words of the Duke of Wellington reviewing his troops on the eve of Waterloo come irresistably to mind, "I don't know if they'll frighten the enemy but by God they frighten me". Byron had something to say on that same evening, "On with the dance; let joy be unconfined..."
And why are they taking on so against Gadaffi just because he threatened to masacre the people of Benghazi? He was putting the frighteners on them but the all-wise Western world seemed to believe him. Besides he was fighting for his life. "Cet animal est mechant; quand on l'attaque il se defend."
Now we are even deeper in the mire and will soon have troops on the ground. Never mind we already have a helicopter there, left behind by the SAS, so the three wise men can descend in it over Tripoli with a banner saying "Mission Accomplished". Remember that?
I am warming to my Kindle thanks to expert guidance by one of taste and discernment. "The Hare with Amber Eyes" is now on the pad. By the way it is no use for reading in bed as it is not lit up.
I think that Kate is very pretty in an outdoor sort of way. Good luck to them both.
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