Benedict - A Breakfast Name
Once again the Bush Administration makes me wonder if there is anyone educated in protocol working there.
Is it correct etiquette to greet a Pope, or any leader of state or leader of religion, with a 21 gun salute? I bet not.
One past slip of the protocol: official announcement of a new Ambassador to Luxembourg did not use it’s full name (as can be found in online US government documents)!
We’re sorry Pope Benedict, and Grand Duchy of Luxembourg - it’s not most of our faults, we voted for someone else.
