A highly amusing article from the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/31/nato.usa
Did this get released early, please tell me this is a joke!
"The only alternative to a Madonna makeover, according to van Ham, "seems a steady decline in relevance and merit".
He said: "The quality of adapting to new tasks while staying true to one's own principles is something which business analysts qualify as the Madonna-curve. This curve is named after the legendary pop-diva who reinvented herself each time her style and stardom went into inevitable decline, but whose audacity has lifted her up to ever-higher levels of relevance and fame.
"Nato should follow the Madonna-curve, and not wait till its controversies escalate into public wrangles."
But Robin Shepherd, senior Europe research fellow at the international affairs thinktank Chatham House, said Nato needed to be more like Rambo than Madonna.
"An ageing pop diva is not an excellent analogy for Nato. What they need is a go-get-the-bad-guys, Rambo-meets-Arnold Schwarzenegger approach," he said."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/31/nato.usa
Did this get released early, please tell me this is a joke!
"The only alternative to a Madonna makeover, according to van Ham, "seems a steady decline in relevance and merit".
He said: "The quality of adapting to new tasks while staying true to one's own principles is something which business analysts qualify as the Madonna-curve. This curve is named after the legendary pop-diva who reinvented herself each time her style and stardom went into inevitable decline, but whose audacity has lifted her up to ever-higher levels of relevance and fame.
"Nato should follow the Madonna-curve, and not wait till its controversies escalate into public wrangles."
But Robin Shepherd, senior Europe research fellow at the international affairs thinktank Chatham House, said Nato needed to be more like Rambo than Madonna.
"An ageing pop diva is not an excellent analogy for Nato. What they need is a go-get-the-bad-guys, Rambo-meets-Arnold Schwarzenegger approach," he said."