Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong (People's Republic of China), India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Maritius, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevs, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somolia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Leisureguy:

If you want to be an apologist for the lingusitic preferences of countries run by folks such as Mr. I-can-cure AIDS-only-on-Thursdays, Yahya Jammeh and Roobert Mugabe, be my guest.

The bulk of those countries are dismal backwaters whose residents would kill to immigrate to the US--they would probably even be willing to stop spelling improperly as well.

Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Brunei, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Fiji, The Gambia, Ghana, Grenada, Guyana, Hong Kong (People's Republic of China), India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Kiribati, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Maritius, Micronesia, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevs, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somolia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tuvalu, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Vanuatu, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Both Iranians and Arabs would probably find that offensive, and tell you that English is just a second-rate, corrupted form of German.

Well, the arabs and Irannies can keep their jibber-jab, chicken scratch languages to themselves. Any semblance of freedom they have ever had is because of us.

Their is a reason that American English is the world's most popular language: it's the most elegant, effective, and powerful language that has ever been devised.

You can take your Esperanto and speak to nobody except a few French weirdos--everyone else in the world is showing their admiration of America by speaking our form of English (aka. they ain't labouring with the UK's lexical colours).

Whatever. All those languages sound like second-rate Spanish anyway.

Both Iranians and Arabs would probably find that offensive, and tell you that English is just a second-rate, corrupted form of German.

Sadly, no such person exists.

Iranians speak Farsi, not Arabic.

Whatever. All those languages sound like second-rate Spanish anyway.

Of course Panetta won't mind since his main accomplishment as a California liberal was to open the southern US border to armies of illegal immigrants.

And before you level the charge of 'partisan' again, perhaps you'd better examine the number of Democrats who ahve come to the same conclusions as I as regards Panetta.

Really? And other than Clinton, Panetta and Ogden, who exactly ahve I been complaining about, then? Let's hear it.

On this site?

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And surely there are plenty more, I just got bored checking previous articles.

I'm going to start brushing up on my Arabic since this is an open invitation to Iran to invade.

Iranians speak Farsi, not Arabic.

Obama picked a more experienced fellow, Dennis Blair, to be his DNI and said something along the lines of "Blair will be my go-to guy on intelligence." Perhaps he's trying to strengthen the DNI at the expense of the agency directors?

More likely, though, he just can't find anyone not tainted to a certain degree, and decided to go for a competent manager instead.

Ahhh, so THAT's the problem? You don't believe in civil rights. Got it.

When it comes to protecting my civil rights from those who don't believe in civil rights, no, I don't. You're assuming that all societies believe you have the right to even breath simply because you were born. That's just not the way it is. Ask the Christians living in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, good parts of Africa, or those that lived under Communist Russia or China what kind of civil rights they enjoy. You only have those rights because our government has effectively prevented those societies from making us part of them. So, be snide all you want. Pretend ignorance all you want. But, the fact is what caused 9/11 was a lack of proper intelligence. Almost everyone agrees with that. We are now returning to leadership within the intelligence organization that puts other priorities ahead of gathering intelligence and using it. That's why Panetta is the worst possible choice outside of Jamie Gorelick. I would have preferred Rahm Emanual be in charge of intelligence and Panetta in charge of Human Services. That would make sense to me. But, to put someone in charge of clandestine operations who's background is civil rights is just a smack in national security's face.