Who Won the Cartoon Wars?

After the fires have been put out, the dust settled, and the bodies buried - who won the cartoon wars? Everybody's been crying about protecting the "freedom of speech" and all that junk, but in the end nothing has been protected.

Whose job is it to protect freedom of speech? The newspaper editors and television producers? Not on your life. It is the job of the U.S. Government and military. When throat-slitting, blood-thirsty, raving lunatic religious zealots say they plan on taking off your head if you publish a picture, there is not much you can do. "You can run, but you can't hide" - they will find you and they will kill you. It is the job of the US government to FIND THEM AND KILL THEM FIRST.

You know that the Muslim throat-slitters have won when COMEDY CENTRAL cannot broadcast a picture because they fear retaliation. They have no problem offending anyone and everyone, but not the throat-slitters. They don't want them knocking on their door.

I recall as a young highschool graduate watching the Iran Hostage Crisis. I and nearly every other American male was ready to pick up an M-16 and take a trip and settle it. But no - Jimmy Carter was President and instead we give the murderers nearly three decades to build up and make plans to make us all hostages - and they have. So much for "freedom of the press".