The Red Carpet

Secretary of State Clinton and Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza

Wasn’t it lovely for Peshawar to roll out the Red Carpet for U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton when she arrived in Islamabad, Pakistan?  Too bad that the red dye used for the carpet was from the blood of more than 101 Pakistanis killed in a bombing perhaps coincidentally timed to her arrival.  Perhaps not . . .

According to the New York Times,

The bomb tore through a congested area of narrow alleys and crowded stalls in Peshawar’s old city, killing as many as 101 people, most of them women, and wounding about 160.

I’m sure it had the speech writers scurrying around.

But then again maybe not.  By this time I am sure that there are MANY stock responses to atrocities of this sort.  Ya think?  How sad . . .

See the story here:

Deadly Blast in Pakistan Casts Shadow Over Clinton’s Visit

All we are saaaaaaaying

Is give War a Chance.………

(Well, New York Times?)

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