Support for the “Palestinian cause” has apparently plummeted across the pond.

Better late than never, I guess.

Yeah, let’s take advice on Iran policy from Jimmy Carter. After all:

His comments are significant, given that he was the president when US relations with Iran hit an all-time low.

Some British reporter actually wrote this with a straight face, and some British and Australian editors actually printed it, again with no humor intended.

And while we’re on the subject of Iran, read about the sycophantic stenography of a Walter Duranty wannabee at the WaPo.

Gerard Baker says that Condi is playing a losing hand on Iran.

Australian model Michelle Leslie explains why she wore a burqa. Unfortunately, even wearing one isn’t sufficient to prevent abuse of women, since it’s endemic. But hey, it’s just another culture, right? And cultures are good.

Another very important Memorial Day piece, in (of all places) the New York Times.

In the past, the American public could turn to its sons for martial perspective. Soldiers have historically been perhaps the country’s truest reflection, a socio-economic cross-section borne from common ideals. The problem is, this war is not being fought by World War II’s citizen-soldiers. Nor is it fought by Vietnam’s draftees. Its wages are paid by a small cadre of volunteers that composes about one-tenth of 1 percent of the population

Melanie Phillips has a brief excerpt on her new book about radical Islam in the UK in, of all places, the Guardian. What I find interesting, and dismaying, is all of the leftist, multi-culti denial in the comments.

On Memorial Day weekend, Victor Davis Hanson recounts our many policy mistakes in Iraq. Over the past decades. (Hint: removing Saddam wasn’t one of them, and few of them were committed by the current administration.)

There are few Ernie Pyles in Iraq to record the heroism of our soldiers; no John Fords to film their valor

Cathy Seipp has some words for Cindy Sheehan. And Howard Zinn.

…in the western world than George Galloway?

…but I get tired of hearing the phrase “clash of civilizations.” There’s nothing civilized about fundamentalist Islam. Wafa Sultan agrees:

Wafa Sultan: The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilizations. It is a clash between two opposites, between two eras. It is a clash between a mentality that belongs to the Middle Ages and another mentality that belongs to the 21st century. It is a clash between civilization and backwardness, between the civilized and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between freedom and oppression, between democracy and dictatorship. It is a clash between human rights, on the one hand, and the violation of these rights, on other hand. It is a clash between those who treat women like beasts, and those who treat them like human beings. What we see today is not a clash of civilizations. Civilizations do not clash, but compete.

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Host: I understand from your words that what is happening today is a clash between the culture of the West, and the backwardness and ignorance of the Muslims?

Wafa Sultan: Yes, that is what I mean.