No doubt, Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran’s energetic president, might use this cartoon* in last Friday’s edition of the Berlin daily Tagesspiegel as an excuse to start WWIII.
I suspect there will be an avalanche of apologies from Germany’s government in the next couple of days…
(* Left: (most likely) the Iranian national soccer team; right: the ‘Bundeswehr’ (German military). The cartoon’s text: “Why we definitely need the ‘Bundeswehr’ at the soccer world championships”)
Update: According to this report, the caricaturist has received several death threats. He moved out of his home for security reasons. Also, the Iranian embassy in Germany requested an apology from Tagesspiegel. The story is developing…stay tuned. (For the time being we have decided not to correct this posting’s headline.)
Update #2: Michelle Malkin is on the case.
