The missing link

Reading the Wall Street Journal online editorial page today, we saw the need to resurrect an old post. We noted a line from Saint Condi of Palo Alto's interview with the state-run news agency the USA (Fox News) on Sunday 18th April...

For all the negotiations, for all the special envoys, for all the trying, the Israelis had not given back essentially a kilometer of land in the occupied territories

...and asked about that weird usage of kilometer. Fast forward to today, and the WSJ online has a piece on Osama's latest Blofeld-style pronouncement in which he annouced bounties of 10,000 grams of gold. Leading the WSJ to ask:

Interesting, isn't it, that bin Laden uses the metric system.

Which we think in their twisted logic is meant to be a dig at the French. Sounds like Condi must have fallen under the same spell.