Starting in Afghanistan on April 1st the last few days have seen a wave of, sometimes deadly, protests across the Muslim world against after an Internet video emerged showing a Qu'ran being burnt at US Pastor Terry Jones' Florida church. I know that in the past Pastor Jones has been used as an American metaphor for my dealings with the Court of Protection but since then his purpose has changed. He is now American intelligence's liaison with Britain's English Defence League (EDL). Obviously that made it difficult for me to mention the change of role earlier and makes it impossible for me to comment on the matter further because training up the EDL is an American objective, not mine.
It is interesting though that in Afghanistan the protesters didn't focus their anger on American troops or the Afghan army but instead targeted a United Nations compound killing up to twenty people including two that were beheaded. This was followed up by further attacks on UN staff in the Ivory Coast and appears to be a response to the UN's involvement in Libya. As such I think the UN could still find that the passing of resolution 1973(2011) turns out to be their League of Nations moment. Or as the weather in Kinshassa more succinctly put it; "It crashed back to earth hard, broke into pieces and then caught fire."
And yes it's Tuesday night, I'm back from the pub and everything is OK but I might be a little bit drunk.
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