Good Manners are Invisible

Does anyone else find this excerpt from the daily LBL newsletter a tad ironic?

Don't Leave Visitors
Stranded at the Gate

While the Laboratory strongly supports an atmosphere of free intellectual exchange and collaboration within the international scientific and technical community, some visitors require special processing. Hosts should familiarize themselves with DOE requirements so guests from what the U.S. State Department deems "terrorist-sponsoring countries" (Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Syria) are not inconvenienced.