What does it cost to be embarrassed?
I don’t remember being embarrassed in grade school when I was called on. But what a different story when I had to present a book report in front of the class. One book report in particular had the class looking at me like I was crazy. I loved the book, but my classmates didn’t love me. I was embarrassed!
It didn’t kill me.
The embarrassment felt by politicians and diplomats won’t kill them. What’s with the world-wide man-hunt for the WikiLeaks guy, when a major Bush administration figure was not imprisoned for “outing” Valerie Plame? He wasn’t embarrassed at all, and there were lives at stake, lives lost.
The Russians are appalled that some Americans don’t think well of them. Suck it up. Some Russians don’t think well of Americans. Big deal!
Could it be that the furor over WikiLeaks is covering for ineptness or even crimes being committed that could enrage we the people?
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