Bush is causing The Great Cartoon War of '06!

So says somebody named Eugene Robinson:

Eventually the focus of this conflict will shift back to the United States, the undisputed leader of "the West." With all his talk of freedom as a universal right, President Bush pretends to understand that U.S. support of corrupt dictatorships in places such as Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan contributes to the feeling that Muslims are under attack and helps give strength to fundamentalism and jihad. Yet, the Bush administration continues to prop up these same autocrats, some of whom happen to sit on huge reserves of oil, while giving little more than lip service to those in the crowds that took to the streets over some undistinguished Danish cartoons...

Those Danish cartoonists and their editor set out to teach Muslims a lesson about free speech. They ended up giving the rest of us a startling illustration that while Bush and his allies speak of a post-9/11 global war against terrorism, terrorism is nothing but a tactic. This is really a war of ideas, a battle for hearts and minds, and it's a war in which "the West" will lose ground until its deeds are more consonant with its high-minded words.

James Taranto let's the buffoon have it:

So let's see if we follow this. President Bush is to blame for continuing to "prop up" autocrats. This democratization process is too slow. But he's also to blame for encouraging elections in Iraq, Egypt and the disputed territories. This democratization process is too fast. OK, Goldilocks, what exactly do you think he should do?