Derb: Greg Pollowitz over at the Media Blog beat us to the punch with regard to Mr. Doudou. As for tarring and feathering — how about we just refrain from inviting them in the first place? One reader suggested firing everyone at the State Department just to be sure, which in my more dyspeptic moods I would sympathize with — but the problem is not rogue bureaucrats, it’s policymakers who are ambivalent about American sovereignty and set the tone for their subordinates.