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Anti-Americanism Is Mostly Hype
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...We were once loved in Anatolia, but now a mere 12% of Turks have a "favorable view" of the U.S. Only 22% of Egyptians think well of us. Pakistan is crucial to the war on terror, but we can only count on the goodwill of 19% of Pakistanis.
American liberalism is heavily invested in this narrative of U.S. isolation. The Shiites have their annual ritual of 10 days of self-flagellation and penance, but this liberal narrative is ceaseless: The world once loved us, and all Parisians were Americans after 9/11, but thanks to President Bush we have squandered that sympathy.
It is an old trick, the use of foreign narrators and witnesses to speak of one's home. Montesquieu gave the genre its timeless rendition in his Persian Letters, published in 1721. No one was fooled, these were Parisian letters, and the Persian travelers, Rica and Usbek, mere stand-ins for an author taking stock of his homeland after the death of Louis XIV and the coming of an age of enlightenment and skepticism.
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Derbyshire on Al Sharpton, the Irish rejecting the Lisbon Treaty, toilet politics in Nepal, and much more
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Query: Do Atheists Know Any Human Women, Human Children, or Human Families?
— By Mary Eberstadt
LOSER LETTER VI.
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Christianity has been taking a beating for years now, with one tony atheist tome after another rolling off the presses — and still no end in sight.
And so far — with the exception of a Michael Novak here and a Dinesh D’Souza there — believers have largely turned the other cheek.
Now, finally, comes more payback — with THE LOSER LETTERS, a Screwtape for our screwed-up time.
In the latest round over God, Mary Eberstadt turns her attention to the last emo scragglebeard left alive on Lost on National Review Online . . .
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Read More LOSER LETTERS — Here
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Obama’s Black Edge
— By John Derbyshire
Does it help or hurt him?
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I think there is more to be said about Obama’s blackness as a factor in people’s voting. There are positives and negatives to it. My rough guess — and I’m the guy who proclaimed that “Obama is toast” when the Rev’m Wright scandal broke, so don’t be running down to the bookmaker with this — my rough guess is that net-net, it’s a positive. Well, let’s see what we’ve got.
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Clearing the Kultursmog
— By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
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...The way the Kultursmog glorifies its loved ones and spatters on its outcasts is done both by pumping out epithets and practicing neglect -- both benign neglect and malign neglect. It simply does not acknowledge its loved ones' failings (benign neglect) or its outcasts' achievements (malign neglect).
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Israel's Darkest Week
— By Caroline B. Glick
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The Olmert-Livni-Barak-Yishai government's liquidation sale of Israel's strategic assets opened officially this week. Iran's proxies have pounced on the merchandise.
The first asset sold was the security of southern Israel. The Olmert-Livni-Barak-Yishai government's "ceasefire" with Hamas transferred all power to determine the fate of the residents of southern Israel to Iran's Palestinian proxy.
Under the "agreement," Hamas will refrain from attacking Sderot, Ashkelon, Netivot and surrounding kibbutzim for as long as it serves its interests.
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The Mystery of the Missing Communist Party
— by Lee Ellis
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Have you noticed that the word "Communist" has just about disappeared from our media and our language?I wondered why.
Seeking an answer, I recalled from my detective books that amotto they often used was "cherchez la femme"(look for the woman). This did not seem to apply here. Another, frequently used by Perry Mason, was, "follow the money." I did - with no success.Finally, I asked myself, who is trying the hardest to destroy America's economy as the Communist Party had always done?
Mystery solved? Those purveyors of the myths of global warming (who demanded that America sign Kyoto Treaty but not China, India, or other so-called Third-world nations) seem to be doing what is necessary to break our economy.
The environmentalists also pushed forour forced dependence on foreign oil by blocking us from using the gigantic surplus of oil under America's soil, whether in Alaska's ANWR, Colorado's shale, Montana's coal gasification, or off shore drilling.
Is the Communist Party now masquerading under a new umbrella called "environmentalism"? And is it buying votes with heavy campaign contributions to members of both the Republican and Democrat Parties? — More
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How our Marxist Faculties Got that Way
— by Edward Bernard Glick
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When the Soviet Union collapsed, Marxism collapsed in Russia and in Eastern Europe. But it survived in U.S. universities
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In the main, our students and graduates, no matter where they went to school, don't understand that China, in return for Sudanese oil, is supplying the weapons used to commit genocide in Darfur. But they feel bad about the Drfurians. They don't now that the Palestinians have rejected every opportunity to have a state of their own. But they feel sorry for them and they blame the Israelis for their plight. They aren't familiar with the Koranic verse "the Infidel is your inveterate enemy." But they keep searching for the "root causes" of Muslim hatred and many of them believe that terrorism is the result of what the United States and Israel, obviously the two worst countries on this planet, do or do not do.
Deficient in history, geography, and economics, our college-trained citizens cannot fathom that the main reasons for high gasoline prices
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An Open Letter to Senator John McCain
— by Lee Ellis
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...Yes, it may take a few years for oil to be brought up, but as soon as the first drilling starts, the futures market will be affected as traders start selling oil shares thus causing gasoline prices to plummet! This was proven a few decades ago when the Middle East saw that we were serious in developing synthetic oil and also drilling in places like Rock Springs, Wyoming. They immediately responded with lower prices and more oil from Saudi Arabia! Unfortunately, we accepted this instead of urging our companies to keep making us energy independent.
I suspect the reason the Saudis now are planning to increase their output by 200,000 barrels daily is because they have read the polls showing Americans are fed up and are urging our government to take action again. Obviously, it is to the advantage of the Wahabis to keep us dependent on Middle East oil; our Middle East "allies" need to prevent us from using our own energy and capitalist system to continue our path to prominent prosperity and dominant power.
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...I am writing this from a hotel room - with wireless Internet! - overlooking this most ancient of cities. The sense of history here is enormous. A couple of dozen miles northeast of here is a wide flat plain called Gaugemela, where in 331 BC, the 40,000 Greek soldiers of Alexander the Great met the 100,000 Persians of Darius III.
Utilizing a battle strategy so masterful it is studied by all students of warfare, Alexander destroyed the Persian army, killing 50,000 at a loss of 4,000. Darius fled and was killed by his own generals, who surrendered the entire Persian Empire to Alexander. The Kurds celebrated their liberation from Persian tyranny, and thanked their god, Yazdan, and his prophet, Zoroaster, for Alexander.
Today, they thank Yazdan for George W. Bush.
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Israel's Truce With Hamas Is a Victory for Iran
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Proponents of an Israeli-Palestinian accord are praising the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that went into effect this morning. Yet even if the agreement suspends violence temporarily -- though dozens of Hamas rockets struck Israel yesterday -- it represents a historic accomplishment for the jihadist forces most opposed to peace, and defeat for the Palestinians who might still have been Israel's partners.
The roots of this tragedy go back to the summer of 2005 and the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. The evacuation, intended to free Israel of Gaza's political and strategic burden, was hailed as a victory by Palestinian terrorist groups, above all Hamas.
Hamas proceeded to fire some 1,000 rocket and mortar shells into Israel. Six months later Hamas gunmen, taking advantage of an earlier cease-fire, infiltrated into Israel, killed two soldiers, and captured Cpl. Gilad Shalit.
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What the Counterculture Has Joined Together
— By George Neumayr
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"A passionate tumultuous age will overthrow everything, pull everything down," wrote Soren Kierkegaard, "but a revolutionary age that is at the same time reflective and passionless leaves everything standing but cunningly empties it of significance."
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What the open radicalism of the 1960s sought to accomplish overtly its more circumspect successors achieve subtly, leaving state marriage standing but trivializing and discrediting it. The Golden state that first took a cudgel to marriage with no-fault divorce takes a final swipe with same-sex marriage.
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The global warming bubble
— By Rich Lowry
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Rarely has so much hectoring produced so little.
After all the magazine covers, celebrity sermonizing and U.N.-certified-expert hand-wringing, the fight against global warming got a real-world test in the U.S. Senate a few weeks ago in the debate over a proposal to limit carbon emissions through a cap-and-trade system. After a small dose of the argument, supporters of the proposal couldn't wait to drop it. It was leading opponent Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate minority leader, who declared he'd be happy to talk about cap-and-trade for a month.
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The President Has Kept Us Safe
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With President Bush-bashing still a national pastime, it's notable how much international terrorism has been forgotten, and how little credit the president has received for keeping Americans safe.
This is a difficult issue for me. I didn't vote for President Bush – twice.
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Yet I live in Manhattan and I was present on Sept. 11, 2001 – admittedly 100 blocks from the murder scene, but I was here, trembling along with the rest of America. Remember those days?
Everyone on 9/12 and thereafter – here in New York City and in cities across America – was quite certain that the next terrorist strike was imminent.
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