By Owen Paine on Wednesday April 26, 2006 04:40 PM
There's a nice label for the donk master strategy
between here and November --
"cunctation," as in the wise feats
of Fabius Maximus "Cunctator"
against the original elephant man:
Hannibal and friends crossing the Rhone, en route to the Alps
That's what friends and supporters of Neville Chamberlain called what history calls appeasement.
Though maybe I'm a few years behind the curve here. Maybe by now we're really into that second great act of pusillanimity, the Sitzkrieg, better known as the phoney war -- the period from Danzig to the Ardennes, when the Franco-Brit juggernaut faced down the Fuehrer mostly with loud farts.
