Do we have the will to persevere? The coward folds his hands and hopes the danger will pass. Are we better than that? Only time will tell--and the next elections. Click on the next link.

Victor Davis Hanson on National Review Online: "Not even sympathetic New York Times interviews with the proud families of the suicide murderers can quite salvage a shred of sympathy for their cold-blooded slaughtering, itself now robbed of Saddam's once ample subsidies. Still, if only Israel would dismantle those pesky settlements, Europeans and many Americans sigh � blissfully forgetting that three wars were fought when the West Bank was under Arab sovereignty or that far more Arabs live in peace in Israel than the number of Jews who reside in fear on the West Bank."