You Can't Make A Silk Purse Out Of A Sow's Ear

Is there anything that better illustrates that:

• There is a difference between democracy and freedom;
• That the indespensible prerequisite for freeedom is tolerance;
• That what we want to build in the Middle East is not democracy but tolerance, and
• That achieving this goal is (in the near term, at least) damn near hopeless

than this: "Preachers in Kabul Urge Execution of Convert to Christianity."

These people are just hopeless.

And so are we for not being able to get past our own myths.