A few months ago, I commented on the hyperventilating that occurred when Trump threatened to attack Iranian cultural sites. Of course, he never did. It was bluster.

Now, those same people are at best condoning, at worst celebrating, the vandals in our own country actually defacing and tearing down statues all over America—everything from Southern Confederates, to celebrated presidents, Founding Fathers, and Catholic saints, like Junipero Serra and St. King Louis. Some have even advocated tearing down statues, and smashing stained glass windows that depict our Lord as European, since, apparently, that is some kind of “white supremacy”.

It is a sin to destroy the culture of an alien land, but praiseworthy to destroy your own.

Such delicate irony would be amusing, if it weren’t so infuriating.