And why aren't we saying anything?

If you want to know why Arabs detest the American government, here's you three reasons, in no particular order:

1. We aren't Muslim.

2. We support Israel.

3. We've spent fifty years giving billions of dollars to evil brutes like Ben Ali, which rather seriously undercuts any attempt to say that our support for Israel comes from a love of human rights. I don't buy the tribalistic group-rights nonsense about how "the Palestianians" have the right to dominate all of what is currently Israel, and so don't have any problems with the American government's support for the existence of the nation of Israel -- but just because "the Palestinians" don't have rights doesn't mean individual Palestinians and Jordanians and Egyptians and Tunisians don't have rights. I don't expect us to invade Tunisia because of Neila Charchour Hachicha, but so far as I know we can't even be bothered to "express deep concern."

The State Department is willing publicly to criticize Danish newspapers who publish cartoons that the wacko element of the Muslim world chooses to consider a cause for riot and bloodshed. Has anybody heard the State Department making any public statements about the Tunisian government's treatment of Neila Charchour Hachicha?