Important Principles

Just keep killing those stinking Arabs, however long you need.

Though nothing concrete has actually happened, Condoleezza Rice has finally decided that she might now, possibly support a call for an immediate cease-fire, now that it will come with "some very important principles," which apparently no one was aware of four weeks ago.

And remember, we're dealing with the UN here, and no one has much of an idea just what the adjective, "immediate," actually means there.