Mo' is da bomb!

Evidently some people, approximately 1.3 billion in fact, have no discernible sense of irony. In reaction to a dozen rather tame editorial cartoons of Mohammed in a Danish paper they've burned down embassies and rallied around banners with such witty messages as "Freedom Go To Hell". And then just to make sure that nobody gets the wrong impression, they vow to retaliate with a dozen cartoons about the Holocaust. It does make it easier to understand why the Islamic world lags so far behind the West: they're far too busy being offended and drawing antisemitic cartoons to do anything productive.

Somehow this feels like a June 28, 1914 moment. The Djinni is out and I don't think it is going back in the bottle any time soon. Although there is every reason to be sceptical of the notion that the UNSC will do anything serious about Iran, I think it might just be possible that external circumstances will make it a moot point.