On Book Burnings, Ctd

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Yglesias searches for meaning:

[I:]t's kind of nuts, isn't it, that we have the general in charge of anongoing war commenting on some guy in Florida being a jerk. Evennuttier is that he might well be right that this episode willendanger the lives of Americans soldiers. But that really raises deeperissues about Afghan society and the wisdom and nature of America'sengagement with it. The essence of a digital, globalized world withbillions of inhabitants is that there's always going to be some...