31/12/2010
Postbag to the Bangkok Post
Collectively and individually, the group of seven Thais picked up on the Cambodian border (on Dec 29) showed clear signs of being a few degrees short of a compass bearing in an escapade more akin to a schoolboy prank than a serious fact-finding mission.
During his fruitless stint at the Foreign Ministry as Thaksin bloodhound-in-chief, Panich Vikitsreth in particular demonstrated a less than firm grasp of geographical realities by placing the runaway former prime minister in a variety of wildly improbable locations.
As with another Democrat MP's humanitarian visit to a celebrated Russian prisoner earlier this year, this seems to have been an unauthorised jaunt that casts doubt on PM Abhisit Vejjajiva's judgement in his choice of friends, colleagues and allies.
The (ridiculous) seven can count themselves lucky their field trip was in an area sown only with rice; otherwise the consequences don't bear thinking about.
How much more embarrassing if Hun Sen's good friend Thaksin were to intercede to help bail them out.
WEEKEND JOGGER
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