Pour encouragez les autres.

Here's an interesting post that nails the communist strategy of targeting America domestically and America's timidity in challenging communism militarily, which latter was enshrined in the policy of containment.

The recipe for success is not more containment but to challenge islamic fundamentalism directly.

Start here: "Against Containment of Islamic Fundamentalism," Jonathan Gewirtz, Chicago Boyz, June 14, 2005.

This excellent post will take you to The Belmont Club which quotes Michael Ledeen in National Review. It's all extremely worth reading and it highlights the irrelevance and stupidity of the "Bush lied" variety of foreign policy posturing.

Mr. Ledeen writes that, "more time has passed since 9/11 than transpired between Pearl Harbor and the surrender of the Japanese empire, and our most lethal enemies are still in power and still killing our people and our friends."

His reference is is an oblique one to methods effectively and ruthlessly employed against serious enemies of the West -- methods that are hardly being employed now.

That this amount of time has gone by without serious action against Syria, Iran, and Lybia; demanding that the Saudis instantly cease funding Wahabi mosques and islamic centers in the U.S.; and controlling U.S. borders suggests that the Bush haters are not the only ones who are, ultimately, not serious about defending the vital interests of Americans.