Luxembourg and Australia: And , oh no, the winner is Luxembourg!

The Mouse that roared! Roude Le'iw huel Se! Andy Schleck, go get him!
Running up the white flag on foreign affairs.

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/running-up-the-white-flag-on-foreign-affairs-20100720-10jk6.html

Everyone should by now have gotten visits, if not bribes, from three contenders for two seats at the UN Security Council. Those candidates were Australia, Finland and Luxembourg. Guess what: those who didn't yet get any bribe or any visit, forget about it then. There are only two candidates left. Australia dropped out, given the ridiculous cost for a questionable prestige win.

For Luxembourg it means, we cannot even withdraw. We won for the second time in our history after that glorious assault on the USA of our twelve men expeditionary corps under the unlucky leadership of Peter Sellers in the "Mouse that Roared". We were destined to lose, but Peter Seller's men messed up and inadvertently won the war against the US.

Now someone messed up history again and we are going to get that seat on that thing, or "machin" as de Gaulle used to say. There we'll save the world, tell Israel what they do wrong, embrace Ahmewhatever and reunite Belgium. But you, you the Dutch, who sided with Australia against Luxembourg, get prepared. We'll send you upside down right down under so that your brains get some irrigation in that inversed position. What a blunder! We resent it. It is hard to believe that we were once part of the Netherlands! Though even then Luxembourg had a higher elevation at Grevels Knapp.

I know, it's hard to believe: we could have spared those promotional trips to Ulan Bator, Bandar Seri Begawan and Asuncion. Asuncion is that Paraguay or Uruguay? Got you there! You should know if you pretend to save the world.

The ominous article concludes: "Leaving Luxembourg to take a seat on the council unchallenged would be like delegating questions of international peace and security to the mayor of Geelong." You have to know that Juncker is no mayor of Geelong. Where the heck is Geelong? Uruguay? We haven't been there yet.