Watch the smoke

What's going to burn next? Today it was an Italian consulate in Libya. Yesterday it was a KFC in some Pakistani city. Before that Danish embassies.

Clash of civilizations? It is here. I read the morning paper and if I disagree with an editorial I fire off a cranky letter, these people literally set fire to things when the get honked off. There are many comparisons to WWII made but I think WWI a more apt comparison. We are now somewhere in July 1914. Diplomatic lines are being staked out and crossed and inescapably momentum is building. Once again the only ones home before the leaves fall will be the dead...