Today Mark Steyn instructs us on the foolishness of treating abominable regimes as if they are just like huggable Kiwis.
There has always been a slightly post-modern quality to sovereignty in the transnational age: We pretend the Syrian foreign minister is no different from the New Zealand foreign minister, and in so doing we vastly inflate the status of the former at the expense of the latter. But with [Iranian president] Ahmadinejad we're going way beyond that. If a genocidal fantasist is acceptable in polite society, we'll soon find ourselves dealing with a genocidal realist.
As they say, read the whole thing.
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