Air-guitar diplomacy. You know about playing the air guitar, right? Take a hard rock song, move your fingers along the "air fretboard" and strum the "air strings", and you're suddenly playing a pretend guitar. Well, it's akin to how Condi plays at being diplomatic; it's all for show...none of it's real.
"The more W. and his tough, by-any-means-necessary superbabe have tried to tame the Middle East, the more inflamed the Middle East has become," writes Dowd.
"Now the secretary of state is leaving, reluctantly and belatedly, to do some shuttle diplomacy that entails little diplomacy and no shuttling," Dowd continues. "It's more like air-guitar diplomacy."
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