February 2, 2006
I'd really like to call it courage...
...but I think it's really just being passive-aggressive.
The spat over the publication of certain political cartoons continues to intensify. If this is what it takes to get Europe to sit up, pay attention, and stop the appeasement that didn't work the last time they tried it, then more power to them. But part of me can't help but wonder if it's just an underhanded way of sticking it to a foe that Europe is, on the whole, too terrified to actually resist. Notice that one French newspaper has fired the managing editor responsible for reprinting said cartoons (Riots in Gaza! France surrenders!).
But if Europe is being just a bit childish, the Arab world is having a hissy fit of gigantic, no, cosmic proportions. What next? Are they going to take their ball and go home?
