USA and making brownie points with his fellow despots in SA(can anyone from SA tell me why when every ?elected? official becomes president they change the consititution........rheotorical question of course). Equador now has to live with their actions and their new house guest. The UK in my simple American mind has always been a leader in diplomacy and will best serve this issue allowing it to fester like an infected wound. Ultimately it will come to a head. With ecuador making this a political statement, it would have been more effective if it happened in SA but they made the statement in the UK as a guest of the UK and Great Britain is not bound by any law, internationally of domestic to grant assange diplomatic status as he is not a diplomat. UK will wait this out. Correa, in his weekly televised broadcast to the Ecuadorian nation yesterday, clearly gave his opinion that although a woman says ?NO? this would not necessarily be a valid reason for a suspected rapist to be indicted in Ecuador. He was, of course, referring to the alleged sexual ?exploits? of Julian Assange in Sweden. So it seems that it is not advisable for our daughters to spend their ?gap? year in Ecuador - just in case! I was reading 35# and was thinking'this is rubbish' and,nevertheless,continued to finish the whole of the post.Then,I re-read it and looked at the two parts,on the subject of defence,and then on the subject of asylum.I thought about