What we're seeing is manufactured rage

That's the astute phrase Salman Rushdie used on the Charlie Rose show this week. He usually knows what he's talking about. Many years ago Salman and I worked for the same ad agency in London. He would pop into my office from time to time to hold forth on world events and expound on US history, which he knew far better than I did. Unfortunately he couldn't write an ad to save himself. He was promptly fired clearing the way for him to become one of the world's foremost authors. Growing up in India he knew the Muslim world but he didn't foresee that he would be the object of their hatred and lose eleven years of life in hiding from the Ayatollah's fatwa. Ambassador Chris Stevens lost all of his life to Muslim terrorists. Chris was the perfect emissary to Libya. He spoke the language fluently and the people there loved him. It didn't matter to the thugs. He was a lifelong friend who went to my alma mater, UC Berkeley, where he learned, as I did, that it is better to be rich in experiences than material things. I've been to the middle east as a tourist and found it awesome (Karnak, Jerusalem and Santa Sophia) and scary ( a snake charmer in Marrakesh chasing me with the snake because I didn't pay him $1 for snapping his picture). If you want a safe middle east experience, don't' go to Egypt, go to the Luxor in Las Vegas. It's clean, friendly fun in a pyramid, and you may even meet Cleopatra. Rage is the Muslim metier de jour. So stupid. So hopeless. Millions of guys who need a shave and a job, and no chance of ever getting either. Or go to the zoo where the wild animals are kept behind bars.