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What Scandal?

Eleven Secret Service personnel, ten U.S. military personnel, all involved in indulging their testosterone-fuelled self-entitlements.  Because of their elite status in their professions, feeling themselves simply reaching for the satisfaction of taking whatever appeals.  And what appeals more to cocky, self-assured men who have proven their physical and mental prowess in the service of their country by securing the safety and security of the highest-echelon representative of state than consorting with the forbidden?

But it's fine, it's all right, this is merely the expression of misconduct of a "couple of knuckleheads", according to President Barack Obama, putting a brave face on the Colombia prostitution imbroglio.  He has every trust, as president of the United States, in the professionalism and dedication of the U.S. Secret Service.  The vast majority of those agents, after all, perform their work in the most admirable manner.  They would never permit anyone unauthorized to approach the president or his family.

Other than occasionally, on a few occasions when party-crashers dress to the nines and brazen their way through to the illustrious gatherings for a little casual mingling.

"What these guys were thinking, I don't know.  That's why they're not there anymore", allowed President Obama on NBC.  They were thinking, needless to say, about having their own very special ball.  And they went right ahead with their spontaneous plans and had that ball.  And if 24-year-old Miss Dania Suarez hadn't been so enraged by that insult to her dignity by that cheapskate Secret Service agent's gesture of $24 for her $800 services, none of that would have been made so embarrassingly public.

But the 21 U.S. public servants involved in this mess were innocent of the knowledge that they had invited prostitutes escorts back to their Hotel Caribe rooms.  How were they supposed to know?  They were just these lovely, fetching women that happened to be at the bar.  And anxious to please, by accepting the proffered invitations.  And of course these agents were the advance team, dispatched to do their thing before the arrival of the presidential entourage.

So these super-alert, highly trained, expert people-handlers who can flick their eagle eyes across a crowded room and pick out the potential trouble-makers who might just represent a threat against the President of the United States have a little problem with their radar in distinguishing Colombian ladies of the night from ladies just visiting a nightclub.

Just a few pints short of a full measure.

Labels: Human Relations, Security, Sexism, United States, Values

posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, April 25, 2012