The always—insightful Jack Risko of Dinocrat.com — a site we highly recommend — sees a complex game underway in the cartoon crisis. Read the whole thing. The escalation and counter—escalation of rhetoric and action seem to us to indicate a number of things, but notable among them is this: Iraq is no longer the central battlefield of our current World War — for either side. The new number one enemy seems to be Iran, and Iran has been planning to make a chief battlefield in that conflict the streets of Europe. It is our surmise that after 7/7 and the spectacular success of the Muslim riots in France that began last October, Iran and other Jihadis decided that a combination of mayhem, terrorism and intimidation of the European appeasers could keep France, Germany and the UK in check. Our view is that the cartoon crisis must be viewed in this light (it was no accident that Syria, visited by Ahmadinejad two weeks ago, was the largest locus of...(Read Full Post)