December 2nd, 2013
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Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) |
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Wait there’s a special Vatican Embassy separate from the Italian Embassy in Rome? Why?
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Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias) |
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The US Embassy in Switzerland also handles Liechtenstein. Clearly no reason for a separate embassy for the Vatican.
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This is so perfectly illustrative. It’s not the conflation of Liechtenstein with the Holy See in terms of geopolitical importance. It’s the pronouncement that there is “clearly” “no reason” for a separate embassy for the Vatican.
Mind you, he’s not saying that there’s “insufficient reason” for a separate embassy. Or that, on balance, prudence suggests that a separate embassy is wasteful, or risky, or mostly redundant. There’s simply “no reason” for it at all.
Because anything Matt Yglesias doesn’t understand must not exist.
Update: Over at the Federalist, C.J. Ciaramella discusses Yglesias’s writerly shortcomings. It leaves a mark. As does this other Federalist piece by Sean Davis. This may come as a shock, but Yglesias doesn’t know what he’s talking about with regards to banking in America, either.
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The only difference is that I have a little more respect for Pope Francis’s boss than Prince Hans-Adam II’s.
He’s been known to bring the fire and brimstone when He’s not pleased…
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That the commingling of Swiss and Liechtensteinese affairs in one portfolio is the powder keg of U.S.-Euro relations, I’ve been saying for years. However I think it’s OK to put it on the back burner till 2017 at least, when we don’t have Pres. Gandhi Mandela II calling the Falklands the Maldives (“a knack for falling between the stools” -W.R. Mead); the born-to-pander ignoramus might desperately create a website called http://www.LuxenstanOutOfSwaziland.gov that inadvertently crashes NASDAQ, the IMF, and DirecTV simultaneously. At least the previous guy could actually speak a 2nd real language instead of fabricating imaginary ones like “Austrian.” It’s as if we live in some perverse Twilight Zone Idiocracy alt-timeline where the West Wing bigs are inviting Klein and Yglesias over to ask their advice
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It could be worse. He could be flummoxed why the Vatican has a separate embassy from Germany.
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The Mail Man December 2, 2013 at 9:29 pm
Could one person ever obliviously embody everything (and everyone) wrong in America today? Clearly no other serious contenders but this guy.