About the book “American Mourning.”
The philosopher and member emeritus of that rare breed of British conservatives, Roger Scruton, once wrote that, for him, the most compelling sentence contained in the New Testament is “Jesus wept.” For me, American Mourning, co-written by the prize-winning author Catherine Moy and conservative diva Melanie Morgan, mother of the Gray Davis recall, invokes similar paroxysms of emotion that merged unmistakably with a religious experience.
Their book tells two parallel stories. The first is about two boys, Casey Sheehan and Justin Johnson, two buddies from opposite sides of the country who meet at Fort Hood. In Iraq, both are killed within the first three weeks of their tours. Their second story is of two women, Cindy Sheehan and Jan Johnson, who endure the most primal pain a mother can endure—the burial of a murdered child. More »
More and more Iranians, especially the young, have had enough of this barbarity.
“If we were to take out their nuclear weapons sites militarily, this will backfire on us, and push the Iranian people into the arms of the Mullahs,” said Joe Biden on an August appearance on Tim Russert’s, Meet the Press. While few pundits can now disagree that the road to victory must now run through Tehran, Biden’s mantra is not only suffused with appeasement and capitulation but may very well be false and yet another example of how the anti-Bush herd is undermining our war against militant Islam.
During his presidency of Iran (1992 -2000), Khatami, a putative moderate, ushered in small relaxations in Iran’s hardline theocratic tyranny but finished his tenure by rounding up thousands of journalists, students, and non Muslims, imprisoning, torturing, and tragically executing all too many of them. His regime had a particular fondness for public hangings in the middle of downtown Tehran which is nothing new to those Islamic fundamentalists who know their Koran and the life of the Prophet. After consolidating the conquest of the Arabian subcontinent, Muhammad wrote letters to the Byzantine, and Persian emperors More »
