One Man in Two Faces
Near as I can tell, the pastor who wants to burn Korans and the Imam who wants to build a "Cordoba House" on the edge of the hole in the ground created by his coreligionists are kind of the same man. Two different religions and slightly different beards--but in all the ways that count they are identical twins and identically repulsive. Too bad we can't join them at the hip, force them to live with each other, and the rest of us not have to deal with either of them. I have to say, I can never approve of burning books. History makes book burning just too uggy for words. By the same token, I'm tired of those who would control the American people and government by throwing temper tantrums and threatening violence. And in the meantime, even if we appease those who threaten, their folks commit violence anyway. If we just stopped trying to appease them--if our government declared that we would no longer attempt to appease them--if only their threats and violence didn...