From the Mawrtyrs

My friend Petra points me to a scathing editorial about the latest recklessness from our dear leader: Which leaves us wondering what Mr. Bush’s next nomination will be. Donald Rumsfeld to negotiate a new set of Geneva Conventions? Martha Stewart to run the Securities and Exchange Commission? Kenneth Lay for energy secretary?

I’m sure the right has some defense for this. If you hate the very concept of international cooperation, have no respect for the aftermath of the world wars, and never really got the point of consensus or negotiation when it should be obvious God is on your side, it seems perfectly logical to appoint someone who has no respect for the job he’s about to do. Or, I guess, not do. Sounds like a good gig to me, really: “Hi, I’m an international gesture of ‘Fuck You.’ My job is to point out how much I don’t care about this position and this organization. Nothing you can say to me will ever make it back to my boss, and even if it did, it would have no effect on my boss or on our actions. So let’s just skip the negotiations and seminars and go right to the golf course, OK?”