When Flirting Fails
Apparently flirting is part of diplomacy. That shouldn't be news, but if you try to seduce the U.S. Secretary of State, and fail, then expect an investigation. The Prime Minister of Pakistan gave it his best shot in 2005:the urbane premier puffed himself up and held forth in his “seductive baritone” but to little effect.Aziz “tried this Saville Row-suited gigolo kind of charm: Pakistan is a country of rich traditions, staring in Rice’s eyes,” wrote Marcus Mabry, Newsweek magazine’s senior editor and author of the biography Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and her Path to Power.
“There was this test of wills where he was trying to use all his charm on her as a woman and she just basically stared him down. By the end of the meeting, he was babbling,” Pakistani media quoted him as writing.
posted by dan @ 12:02 PM
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