Tit for tat

How often do you see entire countries act like five year olds? Too often actually, but here is a prime example:

Iranian Paper Plans Holocaust Cartoons

By NASSER KARIMI, Associated Press Writer

TEHRAN, Iran - A prominent Iranian newspaper said Tuesday it would hold a competition for cartoons on the Holocaust to test whether the West extends the principle of freedom of expression to the Nazi genocide as it did to the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.


Ok now, I've looked at those comics that caused all the rioting. They have mostly been taken down. It is a shame, because if they juxtaposed the cartoons with video footage of rioting, more people would realize just how insane these people are. Now, instead of rising above all this and acting like adults, they will have cartoons in their newspapers that will be FAR WORSE than that which they are complaining about.

Now about this "test" of our reaction. I image the ADL will issue generic statements of condemnation for such printings, and there will be numerous negative articles, but I doubt any embassies or flags will be burnt.

Israel may react to another action Iran is taking, in the form of airstrikes on their uranium enrichment facilities, and I'm sure the "holocaust cartoons" will make their actions seem somewhat more acceptable.