Wahabi Imam Robertson

If we are lucky, Pat Robertson's next airline trip will be "accidentally" routed through the United Kingdom, where he will be picked up at the terminal and brought to jail under the new, stringent laws against inciting hatred with religious rhetoric - which, thankfully, can applied to folks from other countries.

Robertson, of course, suggested that Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez should be assassinated. Admittedly Chavez is a thug, and farther to the Left than the New York Times. But Robertson deserves nothing more than scorn for these foolish comments, and he has received it from all corners of the political arena. And this form of firebrand rhetoric is nothing new - this is the nutbag who suggested that 9/11 was the result of God's hatred towards homosexuals.

Robertson, apparently, peddles a compassion-free kind of Christianity.

Worse, he has caused all of us to endure the Public Ire of Jesse, who has jumped into the spectacle with his boilerplate expressions of moral outrage. As we all know, publicity for the Good Reverend is like donuts for a cop. Nobody should be surprised to see him on a flight to Venezuela to meet with Chavez and offer overblown, sanctimonious apologies on behalf of America, with CNN crews in tow.

UPDATE: Now there's news that this kerfuffle may help Chavez win re-election. Hey, thanks again for your 2 cents, Pat. This is why foreign relations are better left to the paper-chrurning slow-wits at State, who at least know enough to be ineffective.