The real story of the Ground Zero mosque is that the project only became feasible because of the appalling and astonishing fecklessness of the officials who were charged with the reconstruction of the site and the neighborhood all the way back in 2001.
John PodhoretzThis has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.
John PodhoretzThe sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.
John Podhoretz