To arms! (two arms good, four arms bad)

Headline of the day, from the WaPo: “Four Armed Men Attack U.S. Embassy in Damascus.” Now what we need to know is whether the terrorists are recruiting people who were born with extra appendages, or if they’re somehow attaching extraneous limbs to their existing recruits. We could be in an... please forgive me... arms race, people! Well, forewarned is... ok, I’ll stop now.