Another complaint with American facilitation of the Hussein brother's death and presentation has emerged: "Naked bodies of Uday and Qusay should never have been shown by the U.S. It gives them a bad reputation in the Islamic world." If I may, self-righteous Islamic world: spare me. Please, spare me. The bundle of nations still identifying themselves as Muslim, with all remaining due respect, have a fantastically terrible reputation all by themselves - one of failed kingdoms, misguided angry young men, tumult, joblessness, cultural backwardness, mindless Jew-hatred, and chief exports of despot's oil and madman's terror. To put it bluntly: if the Islamic world's claim on moral and ethical authority were a service-wait note on a slow day at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, they'd be number 875,351.

I don't believe I've ever heard such condemnation directed at Palestinians, who routinely parade bullet-ridden, dead bodies on main streets with flailing histrionics. That is, when they're not faking a funeral procession.

And it seems certain to me that if American command did not present the bodies in an indiscriminate, diffuse fashion, the Islamic world would instead accuse our leaders of fearing the confutation of counterfeit bodies - or else accusing the "puppet" governing council of repeating the lies of their "American masters."

As before: only two days have passed since the rupture of Hussein's line of ascension and American public display of the dead. Even so, the Near East still has quite a need for maturation.

UPDATE: Charles Johnson took this report and mashed it like a clay bowl before whipping it into a blast furnace.