Unfortunately, the Arabs don’t seem to get it: this is the kind of thing that can happen in a DEMOCRACY, and in a DEMOCRACY it usually blows over without anyone getting executed.
The Arabs are still stuck in slave mode. They don’t understand how anyone can have enormous power and not use it to defend his “honor.” They expected some kind of draconian response, and when it didn’t come they took it as a sign of Bush’s personal weakness or America’s national weakness. They fancy their boy has gotten away with something because he’s not sleeping in an unmarked grave with a bullet through his skull. What high standards they must have.
I don’t know what anyone can do with people like that.





