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Michael Totten has some preliminary stuff up. Keep an eye on his blog, I suspect he will post more information in the coming days.

It has just occurred to me that this crisis is intended – by Muslim leaders – to bring on a war with the west. Iran is itching to have a war which it thinks it can win (its mullahs read the NYT and watch CNN); and the imams wandering around with those old cartoons, provide a great pretext to drop a bomb – with the approval of the “Arab Street”. Plus, NATO agreements, meaning Denmark is a NATO Ally (burning its Syrian embassy is an Act of War, folks). Plus, the deep anxiety throughout the Middle East post-Iraq elections (and Rumsfeld’s clear remarks that it will be up to the Iraqis as to what kind of government it will have.)

On the other hand, we have the West… the USA political elite trying to keep the GWOT secular; Europe having been hit with subway bombs, the Big Car-becue Riots and now crazy people running around burning Danish Flags…

And even non-political Canadians are watching this on TV.

Heather:

“It has just occurred to me that this crisis is intended – by Muslim leaders – to bring on a war with the west.”

The belated “crisis” appears to have been manufactured by Iran and Syria. But not, I think, to bring on a war. They think that they already are at war. They just have limited ability to take offensive action. This, I suspect, was intended to intimidate the Europeans generally by isolating and frightening Denmark. And to divide the Europeans further from the U. S. But it may backfire. We’ll see. The institutions and liberties of the western European countries have grown in the last sixty years as flowers in a hothouse, watered and fertilized and protected by American economic and military power. We shall see whether there is any strength in them to survive cold winds.

The EU, for the most part, left us holding the bag in Iraq. I’m not saying I delight in the agony of others, but nobody, nobody knows the hard lessons of appeasement better than they do.

For pete’s sake, unexploded shells from the wars fought there still litter the country side.

They better standup to this nonsense.

This is a none too subtle message that Beierut can be re-created on the streets of Europe.Unfortunately they have decided to do this just as the liberal left is losing control and has been discredited by events like 7/7 and the French riots.

The Danes have been the good guys for a long time. One of the few Euros who resisted the Nazis and a loyal NATO ally. We need to support them, not criticize them.

The correct action by Denmark and Norway will be to sever diplomatic relationships with Syria. But the Norwegians have become antiSemitic grovelers, and the Danish diplomatic corps likely will assert, just like the US State Dept grunts, “We must maintain dialogue”.