The Pope’s Vacillation?
Pope Benedict XVI continued his apology tour, meeting ambassadors from Islamic nations today at his summer residence (exactly why the Pope needs a summer residence is another story for another day). In any case, the Pope has shown the same vacillating weakness that all western leaders have shown when confronting the realities of true Islam. The lesson is not likely to be lost on Muslim radicals around the globe: through violence and savagery success can be gained.

Clinton’s rampage?
The media, particularly the conservative talk shows have been awash with reports of President Clinton’s rampage on Fox News Sunday. Having heard and seen the incident, it is difficult to see how the president’s admittedly emotional response was anything approaching the levels described by his critics. While it would come as no surprise that Clinton would be upset at the suggestion that he dropped the ball when it came to Ben Laden (after all, he did), but why do we continue to obsess over this one man: Osama Ben laden. Perhaps no one is more quick to remind us that the war on terror isn’t about one man than President Bush, yet we continue to hear these meaningless blame games played by both parties. The reality is: Islamic terror pre-dates Ben laden and will exist long after his death. Ben laden is little more than a symptom of the disease that is radical Islam.

More troops to Iraq?
Instead of taking the necessary steps to withdraw our troops from a bloody Iraq situation by instilling in the Iraqi forces the necessary wherewithal to shoulder the burden for that country’s defense, our military is making plans to increase the US troop presence in that country. Iraq is becoming a bottomless pit for the US military, as long as the Iraqis come to expect the US to provide their security (such as it is) they will never gel as a fighting force and never attain an independent defensive capability. Do we really want to remain in Iraq defending people who don’t want and shouldn’t need our help, as we are still doing in South Korea, Japan, Germany, Italy, Britain, and so on and so forth?

Kangaroo Court
The Kangarooiest Court in the land did not disappoint again as Saddam Hussein and the trial judge got in to the umpteenth tift we’ve seen since these war crimes trials began. Once again we see the disgraceful miscarriage of justice that is the Hussein trial. One has to give Hussein credit, he certainly has made a mockery of the process. In what other legitimate court are defendants allowed to go on tirades? In what other legitimate trials are judges and defense attorneys replaced at will? In what other legitimate court does the government regularly interfere in the legal process? Saddam Hussein could rightly claim his trial to be a circus, after all it is the Kangarooiest Kangaroo Court ever…

Hottest in thousands of years…indeed
Another unsubstantiated, unprovable, nonsensical report on the earth’s temperature has been released. This time the claim has been made that the earth is the hottest it has been in thousands of years. The mere supposition is laughable, and therefore will be fully embraced by many leftists. While at least this study does not use a reference renaissance paintings the scientists have made use of the study of icebergs. One still has to ask those who support such research, why the incontrovertible proof of increased solar activity is consistently ignored in study global climate change, is it scientific to ignore causations that do not support one’s hypothesis?


Important Links:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/80766b90-4cbb-11db-b03c-0000779e2340.html
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060925/D8KC62R00.html
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1055196
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,,1881056,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1420422006