Posted on April 25, 2006 by Paul Mirengoff

The nanny State Department

Washington Time columnist Suzanne Fields invokes Polonius, the fatherly old bore in “Hamlet,” to ridicule Karen Hughes’s efforts to educate American tourists about how to act abroad. In effect, Hughes has taken the wrong question, “why do they hate us?” and provided an absurd answer in embarrassingly trite language. As Fields puts it, this is Polonius with a tin ear.

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