Another Toy for the Donald
Not that Donald, although congratulations are in order for his wedding. No, it’s Rummy we’re talking about and his new sleuthing machine, something conjured up to set those CIA rascals back on their heels.
They call it the “Strategic Support Branch” and its focus is on emerging target countries like Somalia, Yemen, Indonesia, Philippines and Georgia. Indonesia? Soemadi Brotodiningrat, the Indonesian ambassador to the United States may just have choked over his morning coffee at that revelation. Emerging target country indeed. Condoleezza Rice may find the weather a bit chilly next time she visits steaming Jakarta.
One can almost hear Mikhail Saakashvili, the freely elected, Columbia Law School educated thirty-six-year-old president of Georgia . . . “we need investment, we need assistance, we need cooperation, we need to be an emerging target country.” But one must listen carefully, this Georgia is a long way from Atlanta.
The Philippines has endured a long love-hate relationship with the…