Oh, No They Didn't!!! (Insert obligatory eye & neck-roll.....Here)

Or: The government of Sudan fails International Relations 101...

Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice visited the Sudan yesterday to explain to the Sudanese government that the US govt is very serious about the situation in Darfur. So serious in fact the we are requiring the Sudanese gov't to produce "action, not words" (give 'em hell, Condi).

While the Secretaty of State was laying down the international law, members of her staff and the wife of Federal Reserve Board Chair Alan Greenspan (and other less important journalists) were being manhandled in another room.

When a whiney US reporter yelled at Sudanese security forces that, "We have a free press in the US", a big bad Sudanese guy replied, "Well we don't here, Bi-aotch!"

Anyway, Secretary Rice demanded and received an apology. I can just see her now. An aide comes in and tells her that the Sudanese security forces were pushing and shoving a bunch of Americans, and Condi puts her hand on her hip, cocks her head to one side, leans forward and exclaims, "Oh, no they didn't!!"

Okay, I know it probably didn't go down like that, but wouldn't it be great if it had?