Tora! Tora! Tora!

When Bush isn't being compared to Hitler (or to Stalin), he is being compared to Tojo, whose Japanese government invaded China and Manchuria and forged the Axis alliance with Hitler (and Mussolini) before launching its surprise attack on Pearl Harbour. Using the traditional collection of hems and haws, Philippe Pons's collection of sophisticated, lucid, and avant-garde lessons for Bush and his fellow Americans on the Pacific war is so important that Le Monde decided to publish it on its front page…

While pointing out the number of criminal acts in New Orleans (and thus in American society in general), meanwhile, Dominique Dhombres (of Europe-needs-an-enemy fame) hints at unfairness and injustice in the amount of media means deployed to cover the world's two current tragedies (the Katrina hurricane and the Baghdad bridge)…