Tolerance of everything is not good

A very good Victor Davis Hanson article about how the decline of religiosity in the west and the sometimes misused principle of tolerance have lead to a situation where we do not take ourselves and our values seriously and neither do the Islamic jihadists.

We are at war and wishing doesn't make it go away

A good column by Liz Cheney (V.P.'s daughter) about how the battles in Iraq are only part of a bigger war and if we decide that we can just walk away, we'll only have to face the Islamo-facists elsewhere, perhaps here at home.

We are at war. America faces an existential threat. This is not, as Speaker Nancy Pelosi has claimed, a "situation to be solved." It would be nice if we could wake up tomorrow and say, as Sen. Barack Obama suggested at a Jan. 11 hearing, "Enough is enough." Wishing doesn't make it so. We will have to fight these terrorists to the death somewhere, sometime. We can't negotiate with them or "solve" their jihad. If we quit in Iraq now, we must get ready for a harder, longer, more deadly struggle later.

Radical Islamic facists

Here's a good short piece explaining who our enemies are in the war against radical Islamic fascists.

All of us would prefer years of repose to years of conflict. But history will not allow it. And so it once again rests with this remarkable republic to do what we have done in the past: our duty.