I love the New Yorker cover. It shows that our politics may actually be more sophisticated than we thought; also it will quickly sort out anyone with a sense of humor from anyone without one (sadly, our great future president, Barack Obama, is in the latter camp). And as for anyone who says this will arm the enemies of Obama, you remind me of all the other p.c. strictures that have limited debate about the Middle East. Too much censorship. I welcome the cover as a signal that the pieties of the clash of civilizations
and world war iv, which had a toehold inside the New Yorker itself, are
coming to an end.
