Battleangel

Carl has done it again. It seems he keeps forgetting his place, or rather some people wish he’d keep a lower profile and not speak his mind, or be himself. Must be a pain in the ass to have someone like this around. Someone that doesn’t follow protocol and is impossible to get rid of. You can’t touch him and he is surprisingly immune to criticism and generally just an average guy with a down to earth view of things. Ironically, he’s the one person who didn’t have to step over any corpses to get to where he is today. Ill-suited as a leader perhaps but untainted by the blood of political intrigue.

Anyway, this time he went to Brunei. Good luck with finding that on the map. And he did the unspeakable by commending his host, the sultan of Brunei, amongst other things by saying he had a close relationship with his people. Apparently that was enough to tick off members of the Swedish parliament. No doubt those that weren’t happy with having a remnant monarchy around in the first place.

Oh, give the man a break will you. And stop beating your chest, trying to convince everyone else how great we are and how superior our so called democracy is. Just because Brunei doesn’t hold elections doesn’t mean it is bad place with bad people or a cruel leadership. The mature thing to do would be to mind your own business and realize that we have some serious flaws in our own system that we could work on before we go around criticizing others.
And besides, what good would it do to badmouth Brunei? Does anyone really believe that telling the sultan he’s an SOB will improve anything, even if you believe that things need improving? Have we started to import US diplomacy while I wasn’t looking or what?