The point of the article, however, was that it may not have been a lie. Personally, I think Newsweek may have jumped the gun on documentation, but the fact is that their inability to distinguish between or among cultures (and systems attempting to pass as cultures) allowed them to print a story (TRUE OR NOT) that inflamed Muslim jihadists. Newsweek MAY be to blame here for any number of evils, but most societies discern a difference between the destruction of one or two copies of words on paper and human beings. Apparently, our noble left and our politically correct leaders do not.
That was your take on the article.
My take on the article is from this sentence ... "The reason for the carnage here was, and is, militant Islam. Nothing more." In other words we are wasting our time wailing and gnashing teeth over News weak, when we should be moaning and groaning about terrorists.
Again, the two have absolutely nothing, nil, zip, zero, nada to do with each other.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3mi.htm
Isikoff "...The big point that leaps out is the cultural one. Neither NEWSWEEK nor the Pentagon foresaw that a reference to the desecration of the Koran was going to create the kind of response that it did."
What planet does this guy live on?
a) Planes into buildings
b) Fatwahs against writers
c) Destruction of antiquities
d) Hourly chants of "Great Satan, Great Satan"
Oh sorry. Only a journalist would recognize this. My bad.
Isikoff to story's reporter: "You told me they would just write a letter of protest to the editor. SHEESH! Call that home security company that Ollie North used. Better yet, call my realtor."