US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice stated on ABC’s “This Week” that “If people continue to incite it, it can spin out of control,” referring to the riots throughout the world due to Muslim cartoons that were published.

Can spin out of control?  C’mon, Condi… I like you but damn, things are already way out of control.  The idea of rioting over some cartoons is just ridiculous.  Are we not living in a civilised world?

I normally try not to spout off when it comes to politics – as it usually hurts more then it helps, but I just don’t see what the big deal is.  Yes, the cartoon(s) were probably in bad taste, but how many cartoons about Christianity have floated by and yet Christian have  decided not to riot.  Is one better then the other – no, but this surely isn’t helping view the true Muslim way.

And no, the chuckle-heads that run the governments of Iran and Syria are not helping here at all.  Just the idea of them organising protests when they want to accentuate something, usually negatives about the Western way, is just plain ludicrous.

Condi couldn’t have said it better here: "Everybody understands that there's a sense of outrage, that these cartoons were inappropriate in the Muslim world," Rice said. "But you don't express your outrage by going out and burning down embassies. ... You express your outrage peacefully."