So hard to choose...

The warmongers among us are warning that the Muslims seek to establish a "caliphate" stretching across 14 timezones and exceeding in world-conquering ability the old Soviet Union or the new hegemonic US.

On the odd-numbered days, they tell us the bad guys want to set ethnic groups and religious sects against one another, plunging the mid-east into a cauldron of warfare, and just plain ruining our summer motoring.

Well, which is it?

Their answer: "Why can't it be both?"