River of Condescension

Drudge links this report on the French PM's warning against letting Turkey into the EU. Jean-Pierre Raffarin said that doing so would "allow a river of Islam into a riverbed of secularism."


Uh-huh.


Let's imagine, just for a moment, that any American leader, any member of the Bush administration or Congress, had warned, even after 9/11, of a "river of Islam" threatening to swamp our precious civil liberties or otherwise undo our culture. Just think, for a minute, about what the reaction would be, both at home and abroad.


I'm waiting to see if one of the two heads of the French government will be subject to anything like that, but I'm not holding my breath.