The Middle Kingdom and the Land of the Rising Sun
I've said it before and I'll say it again, the Chinese people suffered horribly at the hands of the Japanese from the start of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894 until the end of the Second World War in 1945 and there is no excuse for the atrocities and crimes against humanity the Imperial Japanese forces committed. But it's more than a little hypocritical for the Chinese to cry "Foul!" over Japanese ministerial visits to the Yasukuni Shrine when there are ridiculously gigantic portraits of Chairman Mao hanging over Tiananmen Square at this very moment. Hyperlink! Between the 30,000,000 who starved to death as a direct result of the Great Leap Forward and the 500,000 to 1,000,000 who died during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Mao killed far more Chinese than Tojo, whom I am happy to say died at American hands, ever dreamed of.

Women's Liberation and Islam
Hyperlink 2! Unsatisfactory progress to be sure, but progress nonetheless. In contemplating the sad gulf between the role of women as described in the better passages of the Qur'an and the barbaric way women are treated in almost all Islamic societies, we must be steadfast in our denunciations, but also mindful of the fact that women were denied their God-given right to vote in this country until just eighty-six years ago. Steady progress is the surest route to victory.

War and Liberal Democracy
In a democracy such as ours, we must all bear some measure of responsibility for the actions our government takes in our name. We must all look inside ourselves and determine to what lengths we as a nation should go to win the War on Terror. Hyperlink 3! In the end, it is a war between civilization and barbarism, and we must not allow the line between the two to become blurred.