The “Real” Sum of all Fears
No. This is simply not good enough. How can this happen?
If you weren’t scared before, be scared now!
It’s the story that Tom Clancy couldn’t even predict. Actually I’m pretty sure he did in “The Sum of all Fears”, only, instead of a neo-nazi Austrian starting a war between the USA and Russia by re-engineering a nuclear bomb and then planting it in an American Football game in Baltimore starting a sequence of events that doctor Jack Carter needs to fix somehow, an unlikely photo shoot of three world leaders clowning around could spell the same un-imaginable disaster.
“I told the president that (Obama) has everything needed in order to reach deals with him (Medvedev): he’s young, handsome and even tanned.” This one statement, caused such a stir, that Berlusconi even came back with those who don’t understand are “imbeciles, of which there are too many.”
He then goes and does this…….
Hu Jintao is on it!
A serious opportunity, one to say, “Hey Mr President, sorry about that remark and if you took any offence. Come to Italy, I’ll take you somewhere nice for dinner by way of a formal apology”, but NO! Instead he embraces President Obama and Medvedev and gets them to somehow drop that political shield and do thumbs up, high fives wave to the cameras whilst everyone else stands looking solemn.
But one man was onto them. Chinese President Hu Jintao, he wasn’t laughing, he could see where this could lead, and from the photo, you can tell either his head has imploded with what has just happened behind him or he was thinking about cutting a deal with someone. My money is on the second potential scenario, at which point disaster could be averted.
But then Berlusconi is Berlusconi. And even if he nor anyone else had noticed what ramifications of this clowning around could have done, he has to go and offend the Queen. (This man is a one man country insulting machine!)
With Germany’s chancellor he hasn’t faired any better. But Merkel seems to do what everyone else does, laugh at him. A few months ago he played hide and seek with her on a state visit, and today at the G20 he kept her waiting for nearly 20 minutes whilst he took a phone call, a PHONE CALL!!!!!!!
People of the world, we Italians don’t care for this image of idiocy. Granted, we had the world’s greatest empire which thanks to Nero went down the pan, but don’t judge us on this. And don’t judge us on our actions in the war, somehow Mussolini went from Socialist to Fascist and went along with, well you know whom.
Judge us on our food, catwalks, beautiful scenery and sheer lunacy. Our cars, women and flamboyance. The fact that we don’t like the French just as much as anyone else, and yet they steal our……food, catwalks and beautiful women!
Tom Clancy has warned us, but I assure you unless the plastic surgeons find the eternal fountain of youth for our beloved quasi- d……..I mean President, I wouldn’t worry too much, President Hu Jintao seems to have it sussed.
