- Mark Steyn has a good commentary on what John Bolton is all about.
- Chrenkoff gives three cheers for one of our best allies in Europe: Albania.
- Winds of Change has a good article on the new international order after the Iraq war, which basically consists of "oppose the US at your own peril." (via Chrenkoff)
- CQ examines a Washington Post interview with SecState Rice where she says the status quo in the Middle East is doomed.
- Chrenkoff has an overview of Pope John Paul II, which has a very personal sound, as he is from Poland.
- Interesting. I did not know there have been three black popes before (via Belmont Club's look at the Papacy).
- If Islamofascism is on the wane in Pakistan, as CQ contends, then will we see Musharraf having room to be more accomodating towards the US?
- LGF takes a look at a New York Times look at Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Muslim lady who has received death threats and fatwas against her.
- Al Qaeda has a plan to destroy the US by blowing up the Canary Islands, thus creating a tsunami. Idiots. (via lgf).
- LGF reports on depressed French winemakers bombing government offices while CQ looks at a Christian Science Monitor article about how France may kill off the EU, or at least the proposed EU constitution, because:
"Once, Europe was France writ large in the French imagination, and it was a comfortable idea," he adds. "Now the French don't think Europe looks like France at all."
- Martin Peretz at the lefty New Republic writes prose heretical on the Left (via cq):
If George W. Bush were to discover a cure for cancer, his critics would denounce him for having done it unilaterally, without adequate consultation, with a crude disregard for the sensibilities of others. He pursued his goal obstinately, they would say, without filtering his thoughts through the medical research establishment. And he didn't share his research with competing labs and thus caused resentment among other scientists who didn't have the resources or the bold--perhaps even somewhat reckless--instincts to pursue the task as he did. And he completely ignored the World Health Organization, showing his contempt for international institutions. Anyway, a cure for cancer is all fine and nice, but what about AIDS? ... Most American liberals, alas, enjoy no similar gladness. They are not exactly pleased by the positive results of Bush's campaign in the Middle East. They deny and resent and begrudge and snipe. They are trapped in the politics of churlishness.
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