@glitterbag,
That's a bit extreme gb. Try to see it as a step along a long and difficult and thorny path. It took a few hundred years to bring Rome from a primitive beginning to high civilisation and a few more to return it to shipwreck.
But the art survived.
The organic theory of cultures suggests that our own is starting to list.
Mr Obarmy, with his "red line" speech, must have thought that internal politics were more important than the external ones. Which is never the case for a nation among other nations.
He has a problem going up steps as well and it might be linked to his eagerness to look good. I saw him the other day let a guy go first up the steps of a speedbird. The guy proceeded in the manner we all do after an eventful day and Mr Obarmy followed him doing slow-motion jogs with his elbows up near his shoulders.
Whether he does it on steps not in public view I don't know. I should think he crawls up them hand over hand.
It's something I find odd. I would replace steps up to stages with shallow ramps when he is making a speech.
His pronouncements are dreadful to my ears. GWB was silver-tongued by comparison.
