UPDATE: Prof. Stephen Clark writes:
RE: Treacher’s comment on the Koran burning
It shouldn’t go unnoted that Obama’s military intervention, when juxtaposed with the Afghan riot, nukes the old canard that US military interventions in Arab countries run the risk of provoking the Arab street – not that this ever had much contact with reality, still it existed. With the governors on the Arab street now weakened or entirely off, you’d expect the grand explosion, long prophesied, to have taken place by now.
Good point.