I see my good friend Matt has a response to my latest comment on this blog concerning the Muhammed cartoon brouhaha, and I think it makes the main point of my original piece: that an atmosphere of hatred is being created in which it will seem not at all unusual or morally deficient for the West to be bombing Middle Eastern cities — Tehran? Damascus? — because, after all, they’re all a bunch of mad-dog fanatics under the sway of an inherently destructive, oppressive, and hateful religion. This is true whether or not anyone intended it.
Considered in the context of the War Party’s larger agenda, the Danish controversy has to be seen as part of the prelude to World War IV.
UPDATE: Oh, and it looks like the Danes won’t be publishing those Holocaust cartoons after all. I kinda thought so ….