Mark Steyn is one of the few writers who can make you sympathetic to the goals and aspirations of Al Qaeda, even after a horrific day like yesterday. You may dislike the fact that Osama sends terrorists into our country, flies planes into the Pentagon and WTC, casually murders innocent bystanders, pursues a radical fundamentalism that would make even some Red Staters cringe, and taunts our hapless government and our ineffectual leaders from his cave, but after Steyn lets loose with one of his bigoted, xenophobic rants against the A-Rabs and the French, you understand that maybe the Wassabists, in their twisted, perverted way, have a point. When the choice is between someone who desires, subconsciously or not, the extermination of all Muslims, and someone who may kill a few thousand every decade in wanton acts of futile terror, I'll go with the latter. They're both awful, but sometimes it just makes more sense to go with Stalin when the alternative is Hitler.

Juan Cole, who actually thinks for a living (Go Blue !!), flushes the Canadian Kleagle back down his hole with this post, about this week's uprising in France.