Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau weighs in on the Mohammad cartoon controversy.

What do you think of the State Department's statement, essentially condemning the publication of the cartoons in European newspapers?
A concession to reality. It's the State Department. What is the U.S. supposed to say -- that it approves of cartoons that set off demonstrations around the world? Just how much more hated in the Muslim world do we need to be?

Another of my personal heroes. I think that Garry Trudeau has one of the sharpest satirical minds in the business.

He takes complicated political matters and boils them down to their simplist elements, and then makes fun of them.