Can there be anything more sacred or more defining for a Kerry-voting liberal than the certain knowledge that our war in Viet Nam was evil? Yet in a remarkable twist of fate, the Kerry campaign continues to compel us to revisit the Viet Nam era. Therefore, Bruce Herschensohn’s Passport, the definitive novel of the Cold War, is an important read. Unfortunately for the body politic, most Kerry voters will not read this book. They will not want to see their own most fervent beliefs embodied in some of Herschensohn’s characters, those characters that despite being blessed with American birthrights, are the unwitting or the duplicitous pawns of past and present Communist regimes.
The book’s breadth allows the reader enough storyline to relive and more importantly to reevaluate the important events in the Cold War. While attacking much of the conventional wisdom regarding the period, he also invites a rethinking of how the lessons of this past war should impact today’s war with Islamic terrorists. Perhaps as starting point, even its name, More »
The man with the $25 million bounty on his head (recent photo provided by Iraqi Intelligence)
DUBAI (AFP) – Osama bin Laden (OBL) attempted to communicate with Al-Qaeda’s front man in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, through a letter that was seized when a ground courier in Pakistan was intercepted. A US counter-terrorism official said in Washington last month that OBL had suggested to Zarqawi that he get involved in attacks inside the United States.
Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt
There are strong indications that the US is moving five carrier battle groups to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. This will spell a formidable strike force for Iran and Syria who are in defiance on issues of support for terrorism and nuclear weapons development.
The second century Roman historian, Tacitus, tells us of a chieftain, Hermann (Hehr-mahn), the Germanic lord of a tribe called the Cheruscans. He and his tribesman were mercenaries hired by Rome to help defend Gaul. However in 9 AD, Varus, the Roman Governor of Gaul, while leading an expedition of three legions east of the Rhine in the Teuotonburg Forest, was attacked by Hermann and his host of Teutonic insurgents. The Romans were wiped out to the last man. And so were sown the seeds of Rome’s long, bloody decline in the West. The Romans of the Western Empire were never able to assimilate and fully “Romanize” the German-speaking Franks who they freely allowed to immigrate inside their borders. Ultimately, the Germans would help to overwhelm, conquer and cannibalize the very civilization they so revered.
The question needs to be asked, will President Bush’s present borderless immigration policy be our Teuotonberg Forest? The dangers inherent in his current policy toward illegal immigration fall into two categories. More »
