CLASSIC:
"Fortunately, the World Trade Center was not an EU aid project, so the French are far less mad at Osama. 'The great question facing us all today,' declared one old acquaintance of mine gravely, 'is how to halt and reverse American power before it destroys the world.'
'No doubt many agreeable dinners will be devoted to exploring this question,' I said, ordering another cognac. Everyone professed to 'understand' how America felt about September 11th, but more importantly they also understood how everybody else felt, too.
'Your Mister Bush,' said his wife, a chic lawyer, 'he sees always the B-movie western: America is the good guy so her enemies must be the bad guys.'
'Well, in the case of al-Qaeda, he's not actually wrong, is he?'
Pitying looks from around the table. 'Bush is crippled,' said someone else, 'by his Rambo view of the world.'
'I very much doubt Bush reads Rimbaud,' I said."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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