So, while my brain, and apparently my server, thaw out, here is some superior reading for the day. This will also minimize heat-generating movement as we are looking at 108º - 109º today. Personally, I think it's going to wimp out at 105º.
The invaluable Arthur Chrenkoff has some "Good News" about a young British Muslim prizefighter and this, less sanguine report.
"On Saturday, during a funeral for children who died in the bombing on Wednesday, a unit of the Iraqi police stopped a suspicious-looking man approaching the funeral procession and discovered that he was wearing a suicide vest filled with explosives and ball bearings, the American command reported Sunday.An explosives team disarmed the man, a Libyan, and no one was hurt, according to the American military.
"The bomber was high on drugs and is being treated for the potential overdose," said Col. Joseph DiSalvo, an American commander. The bomber, he said, "came here to kill the grieving parents of the children who were killed on Wednesday."
"I cannot imagine a worse crime.""
SondraK references a superb article by Victor Davis Hanson on Our Wars Over the War: "The fault is not in our stars" Also at NRO Online, but if it isn't my server preventing access, it's theirs, at the moment.
That Avatar of Elegance and Intelligence, Sisu, waits for her iMac G5 and muses on a London - Columbine meme re. youth culture, plus a lovely photo of "The Boys". (The Lavender Hill Mob?) "Effete exudations", indeed. Many good links here, especially to Betsy's Page on just how much Pakistan President Musharraf is, or isn't, doing about the pernicious madrassas spreading jihadism in that country.
Follow her link to Stuart Taylor Jr. at The National Journal on "5 Reasons Not to Choose Alberto Gonzales.
The Belmont Club highlights Think Globally, Act Locally, re. the war on terror's many facets.
Although the fight against terrorism has been called the Global War on Terror, in practice it is being fought locally, often over specific issues, in a variety of countries. Reuters reports on Thailand:
Bill, at INDC Journal has a quote to follow.
...If we want to maintain a civil - a decent - society here at home, then we cannot be decent with our enemies abroad who consider decency to be a weakness.
And Charles Johnson at LGF notices "How to be a Jihadist" books proliferating in Sydney bookstores.
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