An outrage

If there ever needed to be proof of the utter banality of evil, here it is. They've invited every kook, nut, and white supremacist they can find. The Iranian Foreign Ministry might as well just get it over with, throw white hoods on their heads, and burn a cross on their lawn. Unfortunately, far too many people will take this seriously. If only they could be laughed off the world stage, instead of put on the front page.

I am as sympathetic to the plight of the Palestinian population as anyone is, although frankly I think a lot of that suffering comes from the poor choices of their leaders and violent extremists. But trying to re-snuff out the six million people who died in concentration camps (this time by eliminating them from the very pages of history) does nothing - nothing at all - to help the Palestinians.

All it does is diminish us all.

Man hurts man
Time and time again;
Though we drown in the wake of our power
Somebody tell me why!

(Amy Grant, in 1988's Lead Me On)