By all means, let us ignore the herd of elephants stomping through the room.<p>This is all about the strange and disastrous new European fear of offending Those Who Must Not Be Offended. In this case a visiting Iranian head of state, but we see this stuff played out all over Europe every day, from this level and all the way down to minor, personal encounters.<p>But please, let us pretend we don&#x27;t.