Mobs, Threats, Deaths and Few Regrets

The Guardian has a nice, longish article checking in with major players one year and one day after the initial publication of caricatures depicting the Prophet Muhammed, suggesting at one point that things may be slightly better off for some even after nine full months of protests, exports boycotted and, the saddest thing of all, 139 deaths worldwide.

I don't like the way it looks like this whole sad chain of events is going to be rehabilitated as a clash of intractable first-causes. To my view this underplays the role that specifically provocative and, to my mind, largely idiotic and irresponsible political manuevering played in fanning the flames that killed people. What we're getting now is the major agents repeating themselves, only this time with an assertion none of what happened is their fault.

Well, at least no one's putting the original cartoons on TV.

Oh. Shit.
 
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