Really...?

It is a sign either of my sheer ignorance or fear of fanaticism that I wonder how it is possible that protests over legitimate grievances do not bring down Western embassies in the Mideast, but that a cartoon does.

The world is plainly very well insane.
I’m having trouble seeing how the rage
O’er blasphemy in picture may assuage
The lack of greater anger for the main
And heavy violations of the men
That follow this Mohammed.  In Iran,
We took him who had Britain given ban,
And there returned a dictator again;
Before the re-invasion of Iraq,
We played at chicken with Saddam Hussein
In letting go of sanctions.  If it’s plain
That we have made mistakes, a bitter lack
Of sanity and sense is present here,
When images - naught else - provoke the fear.