Wall Street Journal: Arafat's Children

Arafat's Children
Gaza's mayhem is the bitter fruit of terror as statecraft.
Saturday, June 16, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT , The Wall Street Journal

Scores of Palestinians were killed this week in Gaza in factional fighting between loyalists of President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and those of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas. As if on cue, it took about 24 hours before pundits the world over blamed the violence on Israel and President Bush.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/weekend/hottopic/?id=110010219

Singer: America is Sleeping ...Jerusalem Post

This article by Saul Singer details that the war on terror has become a Republican war which the democrats not only want no part of, they deny exists.

2007 2:10I
Interesting Times: Quiet, America is sleeping
By Saul Singer, The Jerusalem Post

It is not so much that Westerners do not feel threatened, but that they do not see how they can win. Anyone who watched the two most recent intra-party debates in New Hampshire could not miss the result: The Democrats competed over who was more against the war in Iraq; the Republicans over who would more vigorously prosecute the war against Islamofascism.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181813032379&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Fundamentalists threaten Israel from all sides

Fundamentalists threaten Israel from all sides By Con Coughlin
Last Updated: 12:01am BST 15/06/2007

Welcome to the new Islamic Republic of Hamas-stan, where every Palestinian woman is obliged to wear the veil and all traces of corrupting Western influences, from pop music to internet cafés, are strictly banned.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=3YN1R0U0TPQRHQFIQMFSFGGAVCBQ0IV0?xml=/opinion/2007/06/15/do1502.xml

Robert Kaplan Restates the Obvious

This stunning article by Robert Kaplan highlights that Americans have lost perspective on the costs associated with our free lifestyle and have lost the consistent will required to keep it in the face of relentless adversaries who count on this weakness to succeed.

On Forgetting the Obvious
By Robert D. Kaplan

Some truths are so obvious that to mention them in polite company seems either pointless or rude. What is left unstated, however, can with time be forgotten. Both of these observations apply today to the American way of war. It is obvious that a military can only fight well on behalf of a society in which it believes, and that a society which believes little is worth fighting for cannot, in the end, field an effective military. Obvious as this is, we seem to have forgotten it.

http://www.the-american-interest.com/ai2/article.cfm?Id=289&MId=14

Lieberman: What I saw in Iraq

THE WAR: What I Saw in Iraq: Iran remains a problem, but Anbar has joined the fight against terror.

BY JOSEPH LIEBERMAN Friday, June 15, 2007 12:01 a.m. EDT

I recently returned from Iraq and four other countries in the Middle East, my first trip to the region since December. In the intervening five months, almost everything about the American war effort in Baghdad has changed, with a new coalition military commander, Gen. David Petraeus; a new U.S. ambassador, Ryan Crocker; the introduction, at last, of new troops; and most important of all, a bold, new counterinsurgency strategy.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010212

Iran Strategy Stirs Debate at White House

What fascinated me about this New York Time page 1 lead was how the paper refers to the confrontation with Iran as President Bush's problem, not Americas. For years the Bush Administration has attempted every means possible to negotiate with Iran. They have relied heavily on both our European "allies" and others in the international community. So far nothing has worked and Iran remains moving full steam ahead to possession of a nuclear bomb.

Iran Strategy Stirs Debate at White House
By HELENE COOPER and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: June 16, 2007

WASHINGTON, June 15 — A year after President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced a new strategy toward Iran, a behind-the-scenes debate has broken out within the administration over whether the approach has any hope of reining in Iran’s nuclear program, according to senior administration officials.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/16/washington/16diplo.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1181992195-kKsRvCIQLYzzpvC9wc2Svw