Well informed readers hopefully see this situation in less simplistic and cliched terms.

When you talk about my diary as "simplistic and cliched," do you have something in mind like this:

Well, it is not 1968.

It's the US who started this.

one would hope that the er, uhm, CZECH and POLISH folks would realize how stupid this idea is

This isn't a Hollywood movie.  This is foreign policy.

Thanks for providing a little hall of fame of simplistic remarks and cliche's, and for being dense enough to call attention to it by insulting me!

(I only posted on European Tribune out of admiration for Jerome, and the rest of it is just a sad joke.)