Monday, February 06, 2006

Invasion of Denmark, Norway--What response?

Hat Tip to Captain Ed.

There have been a number of stories today about the surprisingly well organized "spontaneous" demonstration against the Danes and their Mohommned Mocking Cartoons. Ed Morrisey notes, regarding the "Demostration" in Lebanon yesterday:
This demonstration and the arson at the Danish embassy was nothing more than tourist-style outrage on behalf of radical Islamists. They have no real street following; instead, they have to bus their people into the area in order to get any attendace whatsoever, and their swath of destruction got as much planning as a three-star tour of the Holy Land. The only aspect missing was the color brochures and the timetables.
This is the third burning of a Scandanavian embassy, including two Danish and one Norwegian embassy.

What I am wondering is, why are not these acitons being viewed as actual acts of war? An embassy is the sovereign soil of the nation and any incursion should be treated in the same manner as if an army stormed Copenhagen or Oslo. Where is the outrage on that. Granted, the Danes and Norwegians are not exactly military powerhouses, but please.

The world needs to wake up on this score. The war on terrorism knows no boundaries, understands no limitations and does not absolve any country from being a target. When these animals storm an embassy, in an apparently pre-meditated manner, we cannot look at this as a Dane-terrorist problem, but a problem for all peace-loving nations. Respect for soverignty of nations does not go one-way. Terrorists cannot claim a mantle of saying we, the west, are interlopers in their world and should leave when at the same time the invade other nations.

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