Letters to the Editor
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What infuriates me the most...
... is the fact that there is actually a kernel of truth in the traditional wingnut canard that "controversies" such as this bit of bloviating about Speaker Pelosi's visit, a tempest incubated entirely inside the teapot of the Right Wing Noise Machine and stoked by Big Media, really do serve to project an image around the world of a nation that, to put it bluntly, does not have its shit together at all when it comes to effective (or even competent) foreign policy. If they could just find the self control to STFU, instead of flailing wildly and strafing their surroundings whenever they feel threatened, they/we might have gained an ounce of credibility in the eyes of the world.
Of course, this just exposes the lie that the winguts give a peacock's patoot about our image and credibility around the world. Sometimes it seems as if the only opinion that they really care about is that of their enemy (defined as anyone who doesn't agree with them), and the only acceptable position is supine, in supplication, neck pinned under their boot...