Posted 5:15 PM by Gene

On this day when Number 20 all but smiled when he recalled how he was going to plow into the White House, we should read Chuck Krauthammer's essay with grave concern. The Iranian psychos who would nuke Israel laughed on 9/11. We haven't done a thing but appease them; our endless non-negotiations are but a stalling move that cannot forestall the inevitable. Perhaps in the back of their reinforced-concrete skulls the yayas know that nuking Israel (or anyone else) means their own destruction, and perhaps the destruction of the human race to go with it. Or do they know? How much longer can we pay the price of stalling when it goes up every minute?

Which raises a further question, one I'd hoped to hold off for a while, but I can't help it now -- but first, a preface:

CNN is not showing the negative caricatures of the likeness of the Prophet Mohammed because the network believes its role is to cover the events surrounding the publication of the cartoons while not unnecessarily adding fuel to the controversy itself.

We're less than six months to the fifth anniversary. Will the idiot NEWS HACKS cover themselves with glory as they did during the cartoon riots? Will they turn it into Strawberry Fields Forever? Will there be acres of yellow ribbons and flowers (and as few flags as possible) decorating the front pages, like kittens on a calendar? Will they sentimentalize all the anger and infamy out of it? We suspect so, and it will be another shameless exercise in knee-jerk reactionary cowardice.