Diplomacy for a change.

Making demands and trying to order other countries around is only going to get their backs up and make them feel they need to be able to defend themselves. That's pretty damned basic. But the only type of "diplomacy" the Bush / Cheney axis seems to conceive of is Rambo diplomacy.

Just on an interpersonal level, if some bruiser looms over me and threatens to pound me into the ground if I don't kowtow to him, I'm gonna look for my opportunity and then sucker-punch the son of a bitch.

Like I say, that's basic.

Don Firth