Israelis must be encouraged to defeat the Palestinians.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up.

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.

It’s a mistake to blame Islam, a religion 14 centuries old, for the evil that should be ascribed to militant Islam, a totalitarian ideology less than a century old. Militant Islam is the problem, but moderate Islam is the solution.

To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, a foot soldier in the war that bin Laden has launched against civilization.

There is no problem with Islam itself or with the Muslims, but these are difficult times, and the difficulty stems from radical Islam.