…that I consider this a good thing?

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that violent protests in the Muslim world over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad could “spin out of control” if governments refuse to act responsibly.

Exactly what does she mean by “act responsibly,” anyway? European governments should censor their own press, the way CNN and most American networks self-censor? How many of you have seen the cartoons–except, perhaps, on the web. You sure as hell didn’t see them in the Houston Chronicle, that bastion and defender of press freedom.

Well, no, she doesn’t mean that. She means that Iran and Syria need to start acting responsibly, and stop using the foriegn devils (thats us) to keep their people riled at an outside threat, and ignoring their own, ah (lets be generous), “shortcomings.” But I disagree. I think these countries need to go right on doing the same thing.

I mean, having it ‘spiraling out of control’ might just rip a few people out of their feelings of complacency that were barely disturbed by the French riots, and get them to realize that we are in a war for the survival of our civilization. Continued indifference or self-censorship because “we have to understand their feelings” is the road to losing this war. It’s high time some people realized that, and letting them see it… well, it might not do any good for the worst offenders against reality, but the ones on the fence or merely indifferent could use the swift kick.

To turn a famous saying on its head, “First they came for the Jews…”

(edited for clarity)