A meaningless and expensive engagement
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Pop quiz: Name the type of person who gets wined and dined, showered with compliments, put up in the fanciest hotels, given a limousine to travel anywhere, given complimentary gifts galore, and in appreciative reciprocation, heaps glowing praise upon his hosts.
Definition of a prostitute: someone who takes money to provide pleasure for the person paying. It’s doubtful that Tony Blair provided carnal pleasure to any paymasters in the Pheu Thai government, but his actions and speech in Bangkok, of late, pique curious minds.
The hollowness of the whole ordeal is evident in the current political demonstrations. People will get maimed and killed. The government should be barred from using the word “reconciliation” since it has shredded its meaning.
Nek Nestrebla
Bangkok
