Obamboozled
American soldiers, Marines, sailors, and airmen are currently engaged in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq; American intelligence agents and law enforcement officers are everyday mired in cat-and-mouse games with terrorists and criminals; and the Congress is currently wrestling over whether to socialize this country's health care system. President Obama doesn't have any better use for his time than this: Beerlink? This is the change you voted for?

The War for Civilization
I don't understand the Spaniards. After the cowardly bombings of the Madrid train system on 11 March 2004, the Kingdom of Spain very quickly withdrew its token forces in Iraq, precisely the action demanded by the Madrid bombers; in effect, Spain put on display a banner proclaiming that it would accede to any terrorist demands if enough of its citizens were killed in spectacular enough fashion. Spain endorsed terrorism as an effective means of changing government policy; so, these latest barbaric attacks can hardly be considered a surprise: Burgoslink and Majorcalink. Yet the Spaniards act as if these outrageous attacks are anything other than the inevitable result of their post-Madrid capitulation. To borrow from Kipling, you paid the Danegeld, you treacherous Spanish slime, you can hardly now complain of having not gotten rid of the Dane.