"What effect must it have on a nation if it learns no foreign languages? Probably much the same as that which a total withdrawal from society has upon an individual." --G.C. Lichtenberg
I've noticed a lot of right wingers rubbing their hands with glee (and, likely, relief) that the sniper turned out to be a black, Muslim al Qaeda sympathizer as opposed to an angry, white, Christian, gun nut fundamentalist.
I seem to recall that these were the guys who had let the issue of al Qaeda fall by the wayside in their frenzy to invade Iraq. Many of us on the left noted that al Qaeda had attacked us, not Iraq, and that many of its members were still at large and determined to attack us.
