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Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

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Friday, June 18, 2010

Foundations Built on Sand» What Kind of Washington Fools Would Honor Turkey’s Foreign Minister?


The Rosett Report » What Kind of Washington Fools Would Honor Turkey’s Foreign Minister?
June 16, 2010

Yep, the Woodrow Wilson Center is Honoring the Foreign Minister of Turkey

from The Rosett Report by Claudia Rosett

It seems too incredible that after Turkey’s Iran-embracing terror-loving anti-American Israel-demonizing hijinks of recent times, the congressionally-created taxpayer-subsidized Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars would go ahead with its plans to bestow its Public Service Award on the chief strategist behind all this, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.

But a press assistant at the Wilson Center confirmed this morning that it is true. The ceremonial dinner, honoring Davutoglu, along with a Turkish business tycoon, is scheduled for Thursday evening, at the Four Seasons, in Istanbul.

For more on what’s deeply troubling about this, see my post below, What Kind of Washington Fools Would Honor Turkey’s Foreign Minister?


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