connecting*the*dots

Tom Engelhardt: …”In the immediate wake of 9/11, our President and Vice President hijacked our country, using the low-tech rhetorical equivalents of box cutters and mace; then, with most passengers on board and not quite enough of the spirit of United Flight 93 to spare, after a brief Afghan overflight, they crashed the plane of state directly into Iraq, causing the equivalent of a Katrina that never ends and turning that country into the global equivalent of Ground Zero.”

Jeff is outraged that Comedy Central isn’t an equal opportunity offender because they wouldn’t allow South Park to portray the Prophet Mohhamed. What’s our fascination for bringing Islam into the mix of our reverence for blasphomy? I mean, c’mon, Mel Gibson’s vision of a battered Christ was even more disturbing than the trailers for United 93. Where does our impulse to force specific, Western standards of free speech onto global traditions come from?