We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.

The extremes to which Western elites will go to avoid blaming radical Islam for terrorism cripples our efforts to protect innocent Muslims. Terrified of offending butchers, we insist that we're the bigots, not them. We make excuses for monsters.

Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors.

If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred.

The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

Idealism has devolved into madness.