Losing the Enlightenment
“A civilization that has lost confidence in itself cannot confront the Islamists.”

“So we have been given a reprieve of sorts with this war, to regroup; and, in our enemies, to see our own past failings and present challenges; and to rediscover our strengths and remember our origins. We can relearn that we are not fighting for George Bush or Wal-Mart alone, but also for the very notion of the Enlightenment — and, yes, in the Christian sense for the good souls of those among us who have forgotten all that as they censor cartoons and compare American soldiers to Nazis.

So let me quote Winston Churchill of old about the gift of our present ordeal:

“These are not dark days: these are great days — the greatest days our country has ever lived.”

Never more true than today.”

Spot on, as always.
Jenny Hatch

Student Protests in Iran (Photos)

“Today is “Students Day” in Iran, and thousands demonstrated this morning in universities across the country. Below are pictures taken at Tehran University where the crowd was estimated at several thousand.”

Click on the link to see the photos, courtesy of Free Republic.
Jenny Hatch

John Bolton: Sacrificed
Ben Johnson:

“It’s official: John Bolton has been sacrificed. The question is, how far will the dagger plunge into the back of America’s foreign policy interests?

President Bush has accepted Bolton’s resignation after the recess-appointed UN ambassador was unable to secure a vote in the Senate. The Left, led by a vindictive Lincoln Chafee eager to get back at the president he blames for his much-deserved defeat, refused to bring the Bolton nomination to the floor.

Unlike the first stormy Bolton hearing, there was little question he would have been confirmed this time. In April 2005, it seemed unlikely Bolton could be referred out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. This time, Sen. George Voinovich, R-OH, dropped his once-lachrymous opposition, and even if Chafee voted no, he could have been referred to the full body on a tie. According to White House spokesman Tony Snow, 58 senators had pledged to confirm Bolton – two too few to keep the Legislative Branch Left from consolidating its grasp on foreign policy.

All the Left’s campaign talk of the coveted “power of oversight” notwithstanding, at this crucial moment in world history, the United States is without representation in the world body, because the Senate refused to perform its duty to “advise and consent” the president vis-à-vis his appointments.

Advise and consent has become “until hell freezes over” will we let this nominee into the political world….
Sorry for the Borking Mr. Bolton, you did a great job while you were there….

Jenny Hatch

OUR ENEMIES’ GLEE
AMIR TAHERI:

November 16, 2006 — RADICAL elements across the Middle East see last Tuesday’s defeat of President Bush’s Republican Party as their victory.

Calling the election “the beginning of the end for Bush,” Ayatollah Imami Kashani told a Friday congregation in Tehran that the Americans were learning the same lesson that last summer’s war in Lebanon taught the Israelis.

Tehran decision-makers believe that the Democrats’ victory will lift the pressure off the Islamic Republic with regard to its nuclear program. “It is possible that the United States will behave in a wiser manner and will not pit itself against Iran,” says Ali Larijani, Tehran’s chief negotiator on the nuclear issue.

His view is echoed by academics with ties to “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei. “The Democrats will do their best to resolve Iran’s nuclear issue through negotiations, rather than resorting to threats,” says Yadallah Islami, who teaches politics at Tehran University. “Bush will be forced to behave the way all U.S. presidents have behaved since Richard Nixon – that is to say, get out of wars that the American people do not want to fight.”

Jenny Hatch

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Jenny Hatch