Games people play.

US Security Agents, sent to Cartagena in Colombia to prepare for President Obama's visit, were caught with their pants down. On April 11, having nothing to do, some of them decided to visit a strip club called Pleyclub, following which they brought some women back to their hotel. Problem was the hotel was supposed to be a secure area. Unfortunately, next morning one of the men tried to save money by offering one of the women less than what had been decided. " It was $800 but he only gave me $30," the woman claimed. That is some bargaining. No professional woman is ever going to put up with such an affront. The woman raised a stink, the hotel called the police, the police called the embassy and a scandal blew up. One of the men has retired, one has resigned and one has been sacked but is allowed to appeal. Red faces all round. Moral of the story - Never bargain with a professional woman inside a secure zone. Always escort her far away first. Meanwhile, the propaganda channel, BBC broadcast a video prepared by Huberta von Voss-Wittig, wife of Germany's UN Ambassador, Peter Wittig and Sheila Lyall Grant, wife of Britain's UN Ambassador, Mark Lyall Grant, in which they show pictures of children injured in shelling by government forces in Syria while they ask Asma Assad, wife of President Bashar al Assad, to take a risk and " stand up for peace for the sake of your people ". They are asking viewers to sign an online petition to Asma asking her to make a stand against her husband. " As a woman, wife and mother, she cannot hide behind her husband," they say. Perhaps they do not know the role of women in a Muslim country in the middle east, even if she has been brought up in London and had a western education. What is she to do? If Assad resigns he will have to keep running for the rest of his life. He may even be killed by his own people. She and her children may be killed. At best she may have to bring them up in hiding in some country which may offer asylum but where they will never be safe. Examples are many. Cleopatra's son Caesarian was murdered. The entire family of Tsar Nicholas, including all the children, was wiped out. Father of Bangladesh, Sheikh Mujibur Rehman's family was slaughtered in an army coup, only Sheikh Hasina survived. As a mother she will fight like a tigress to protect her children no matter what the cost. Pity these 2 sanctimonious, self righteous women did not make a video to Samantha Cameron and Carla Bruni while their husbands were bombing 30,000 Libyans to death. They did not start an online petition to Cherie Blair and Laura Bush while their husbands were murdering 500,000 Iraqis. Perhaps they suffer from the common delusion that we Asians are grateful to die at the hands of white skins. It is time they learn that death is absolute and loved ones always suffer.