Knock that (expletive deleted) off!

If you don't like President Bush, there are a host of reasons on the left and the right to support your opinion. But his recent open-mike gaffe, wherein he explained to Tony Blair his view of the best way to stem the current violence in the Middle East this way: "What they need to do is to get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this [expletive]" is not one of those reasons.
Most of us figure this is the way to solve the world's problems.
I call it "The Three Stooges'' Paradigm.
The United States, being Moe, gets the warring parties to declare a cease-fire by banging their heads together and saying, "Cut it out, you knuckleheads!" Any further aggression is met with a sharp poke in the eye.
The fact that Shep never entered the diplomatic corps (although easily upset John Bolton seems Shep-like) is proof, of course, that world diplomacy is never that simple.
Nyuck! Nyuck! Nyuck!