Something of the night
April 22nd, 2004Is it me, or does John Negroponte look a bit like Michael Howard’s older, more menacing brother?
Negroponte, incidentally, is the current US ambassador to the UN and their designated ambassador to the new Iraq. He has a rather dodgy history of supporting the Contras’ insurgency against the democratic government in Nicaragua when he was US ambassador to Honduras. The link is via Boing Boing - Atrios points out that Negroponte’s picture on the Iraqi Coalition Provisional Authority site has a reproduction of Picasso’s Guernica in the background, although the CPA have trimmed out most of it (compare it with the original). Anyway, the juxtaposition of one of the US’s leading hawks and the greatest ever anti-war work of art together is certainly a sobering contrast.