AD--terrorism is a bit over the top. Arrogant, most definitely. Insensitive, yes. Stupid, maybe. Terrorism, I just don't see. However, the smartest move by the Pakistanis would have been to ignore it. Taking to the streets and making an issue of it only fuels the liberal Western media image that Pakistanis are a bunch OBL-loving, freedom-hating radicals, which is entirely false. You know the camera is going to zoom in on the one crazed twenty-something guy in provincial dress with a misspelled sign shouting death to America.
Why not just say, "it's your embassy, do as you choose; and if you choose to take actions that we believe will damn your eternal soul, then so be it. Next week we plan to hold an anti-gay celebration at our embassy in Washington to see if your citizens behave as decently as ours."
AD--terrorism is a bit over the top. Arrogant, most definitely. Insensitive, yes. Stupid, maybe. Terrorism, I just don't see. However, the smartest move by the Pakistanis would have been to ignore it. Taking to the streets and making an issue of it only fuels the liberal Western media image that Pakistanis are a bunch OBL-loving, freedom-hating radicals, which is entirely false. You know the camera is going to zoom in on the one crazed twenty-something guy in provincial dress with a misspelled sign shouting death to America.
Why not just say, "it's your embassy, do as you choose; and if you choose to take actions that we believe will damn your eternal soul, then so be it. Next week we plan to hold an anti-gay celebration at our embassy in Washington to see if your citizens behave as decently as ours."