By attempting to stick to your guns childishly with the 'on record - off record' issue, you are only precipitating matters more and should learn a few lessons in responsible journalism. It would not have harmed you if you had graciously conceded that probably you were'nt able to discern between the 'on-record, off-record' out of the conversation. You are aware that the parliamentarians are just manipulating the issue to score political points. You are aware that they need an excuse to misbehave and walk-out for the flimsiest of reasons. You are an intellectual, so is the Ambassador. How can you play into the hands of these ragamuffins who call themselves our representatives in parliament. I attribute you with more intelligence than what you have just displayed. You cannot get manipulated unless you have chosen to play along. You would have scored more points if you had helped in mitigating the matter, which is disrupting the parliament and placing the ambassador you 'have highest respect for'(sic) in an embarassing tight spot. Playing games are you, adding fuel to the fire, using your position to have the last word so irresponsibly and considering the readers to be idiots who have to decipher it as your expression of 'highest respect', whilst the rest of what you write is to the contrary. Sure you will make a miserable politician, sorry you just also made a miserable adult clinging on to a childish ego. Go ahead have the last word.
