You can’t be more right on that one.

I get very annoyed when the MSM decides to use the language of the open borders crowd.

Good post sir.

Exhibit “A” for that sort of behavior would be SoS Rice, former member of the Board of Chevron Corporation (www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/ricebio.html).

Dr. Hanson, do you consider SoS Rice to be “suspect”? Should President Bush have considered her views on the Middle East to have been “suspect”?

Now instant gratification and feeling good–we’re all over that.

Sometimes I think our “leadership” is firmly stuck somewhere around the third grade of life.

He just put Martinez..the big ol’ author of Amnesty ahead of the Rnc…it’s starting.
and it’s thoroughly depressing.

And when they join hands to achieve a “goal”, check for your wallet and watch.

We give our “word” which apparently means nothing, we take back promises like they were ugly ties bought by distant relatives at a thrift shop.

We abandon people we asked to go out on a limb for our “principles”, then turn the channel to the latest HSN as their limbs are brutally sawed off. (Yawn)

The left skips gleefully as they take “credit” for “taking down” yet another attempt to stand up to worldwide bullies and deliver their vacuous homilies with attendant sanctimonious breastbeating at how it was “all our fault” to begin with.

The isolationists/appeasers on the right take up the left’s drumbeat about how evil Israel and the Jews are aloud (and whisper that Mel Gibson was right, dontcha know, behind closed doors).

And Osama Bin Laden and all the sideline sitters watching Iran and Al-Qaeda get yet one more lesson on how “Americans don’t have stomach for standing up to us”, and further up the ante.

And most sadly of all…those stuck in the center are bypassed by the wildly swinging pendulum of extreme right and extreme left..are utterly unable to get any traction for rational and sane reasoning…because there is absolutely no political framework upon which it might attach.

Sanity….like the Kurds and quite soon, Israel…will be left to twist slowly in the coming cold, cold wind.

Outstanding insights, as I find true of most of your work.

Please keep up the good fight, as your work is the source of much-needed historical perspective and Western confidence — two items that are utterly lacking in today’s political and cultural climate.

Brzezinski, of course, was the guy with the bright idea of creating and training an Islamic resistance to the Soviets in Afghanistan, something that ultimately backfired on 9-11, and the fellow who navigated Carter through the hostage crisis in a fashion that weakened America’s standing.

Why should the U.S. rely on ZB’s opinions for solutions to long-term problems? Yet Ambassador James Robbins claims it was the Iranians who pushed for a democratic government in Afghanistan. The chess-playing carpet-weavers are charming, but who knows what cards they have up their sleeve or how they will play them?