Read of the day

Today's read-of-the-day, in the "Non-Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince" category comes from the always entertaining, ever enlightening one-man global content provider, Mark Steyn. OK, it's actually yesterday's read-of-the-day, in the "Non-Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince" category, but I didn't see it until today...

Karl Rove? Please. I couldn't care less. This week finds me thousands of miles from the Beltway in what I believe the ABC World News Tonight map designates as the Rest Of The Planet, an obscure beat the media can't seem to spare a correspondent for. But even if I was with the rest of the navel-gazers inside the Beltway I wouldn't be interested in who ''leaked'' the name of CIA employee Valerie Plame to the press.
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What's this really about? It's not difficult. A big chunk of the American elites have decided there is no war; it's all a racket got up by Bush and Cheney. And, even if there is a war somewhere or other, wherever it is, it's not where Bush says it is. Iraq is a "distraction" from Afghanistan -- and, if there were no Iraq, Afghanistan would be a distraction from Niger, and Niger's a distraction from Valerie Plame's next photo shoot for Vanity Fair.

The police have found the suicide bomber's head in the rubble of the London bus, and Iran is enriching uranium. The only distraction here is the pitiful parochialism of our political culture.

Steyn combines an ability to turn a phrase brilliantly, with a clear-headed global worldview, and a spectacular talent for expressing it. As always, it's must-read material.