FIGHTING BACK. When we last checked in, the Corner's Cliff May had used the occasion of croc hunter Steve Irwin's death to mount a sustained stingray-as-Islamofascism metaphor, noting that "every stingray is a very real and present danger." It appears that Australians may have missed the metaphor part of May's call to arms and are retaliating swiftly against stingrays all along the country's eastern coast. Australians' resolve is both notable and admirable, but there's clearly a danger of going too far here. What's needed is for a leader to calm the nation, as President Bush did in his famous Friday speech after 9-11, and emphasize that this is not a war against stingrays -- a species of peace -- but rather those who would tarnish that noble species' name through terror.
--Sam Rosenfeld
