IRONY AT WORK. Sometimes the headline says it all. That the entire civilized population of the United States isn't rolling down the street, laughing uncontrollably, is a measure of what this cabal of constitutional vandals has wrought over the past seven years. I thought sending Karen Hughes out as the Face of America in the Muslim World was going to be the peak of this administration's hilarious gift for inappropriate public irony. Not even close, as it turns out. Did this rubber-stamp Torquemada tell the Iraqis that the Geneva Conventions are "quaint"? (Something on which he and their most recent dictator could find a little common ground.) Did he school them in these find distinctions? Just send him into the National Archives with a big old bottle of Liquid Paper and be done with it.
--Charles P. Pierce
