Nuclear arms in the Middle East

Israel's attacking the Iraqis

The Syrians are mad at the Lebanese

And Baghdad does whatever she please

Looks like another threat to world peace

For the envoy

The main concern of fundamentalist Islam is with moderate Islam, and especially those Islamic states which, if they have not precisely embraced democracy, have nevertheless tried to banish theocracy from the business of government. That fundamentalism loathes the Western democracies goes without saying: or rather, it goes with a lot of saying, at the top of the voice. But the real horror, for the diehard theocrats, is the country with a large number of Muslims that has been infiltrated by the liberal ideas of the West. As a rule of thumb, you can say that the terrorists would like to wreak edifying vengeance on any predominantly Islamic country where you can see even a small part of a woman's face.

When you say ‘Islamic terrorists,’ the only people you're insulting are … Islamic terrorists. And really, we don't care if we insult them.

Why is foreign aid not contingent upon warning recipient states that they will forfeit it if clerics they subsidize preach hatred of the West? Why aren't we helping Afghanistan or Pakistan to build secular alternatives to the Saudi-financed madrassas where children are brainwashed with cartoon Jew killers?