"...well he said that in backing the titular Christian entity of Ethiopia in its rampage into Somalia for the purposes of rooting out the Islamic Courts, well, he said, we're no better than the rogue states we declaim against, flouting shamelessly the very international restraints that might, you know, define the one in opposition to the other."
"What's that?" the nonplussed preacher asked, delicately balancing a pastry on a napkin.
"And I said, you know, your high thinkers talk of the post nation state world, the post post Westphalian context and all that. But what if the post Westphalian actually ends up being pre-Westphalian in nature? What about that? All your fine ideas won't count for much then."
"No, I suppose not," offered the preacher timidly, struggling with a wanton crumb that had attached itself to his soft lower lip.
