A Stitch in Haste

"I guess you have to ask — what is an embassy? And when I ask that today, I think of the old original meaning of 'embassy' — not a building, not a collection of jobs and reports, but a mission of understanding between people."
--Ambassador Johnnie Carson, U.S. Embassy Nairobi Memorial Service, August 7, 2000

"Our enemy is scary because they have no humor. None. They never had humor. These are people who wandered the desert and never ran into a knock-knock joke. Which is the price you pay for living in tents."
--Lewis Black, Rules of Enragement, 2004

I don't know enough about international law or diplomacy to blog about whether burning an embassy is truly an "act of war" or just an "international incident" or something else in the doublespeak lexicon of global relations.

But I know that these people are barbarians, and that their faith is anything but a "Religion of Peace."

And the idea that our State Department, our diplomats, would have contemplated, even for a moment, siding with these hoodlums would be unimaginable, until you remember that we have our own intolerant religious fanatics running the country right now. Suddenly it ceases to be surprising.

Meanwhile, anyone still want to make the case for "Condi 2008"?

More thoughts from Christopher Hitchens.

Voltaire:

"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

RoP:


Remind me again why this is a "Religion of Peace" and how we're not superior to these barbarians?