Has anyone else gained respect for Anders Fogh Rasmussen?

[minionofmidas]

For other reasons, too.

No. Of course I haven't. The insensitive prick can thank those insensitive pricks in Syria and the Libanon, by the way; they may actually have saved his job. When I heard "stormed the embassy", I knew all hope of something positive coming out of this was lost...(and I'm not referring to a change of government)

(Oh, PS - over 20 of the demonstrators were hospitalized due to police violence, and you're telling me the government didn't do enough? What do you want? A bloodbath? Just fuck off, will you?)

[minionofmidas]

To be fair I forget whether that was the figure from Syria or Lebanon.

These demos were mostly organized by SMS, though, which the government spies can't very well control. They knew the demo was going to happen - and that's why quite a lot of police etc was there, although it's quite likely that there also was a decision to let some sort of demo in front of the embassy happen - but they were shocked and surprised at the sheer numbers of people to turn up.