Only a coward would forsake his personal truth out of fear of death, and one thing Hitchens certainly is not is a coward. I am not a believer in religion-in-the-foxholes and deathbed confessions.
If Obama were an Islamic president who berated instead of coddled Arab dictators, he would have my vote. I could not care less what a person believes, but rather what they do.
How did an attention-seeking nonentity with barely enough Church followers to fill a phone booth become an international personality and provoke a global furor? And who elevated this silly story to global news prominence?
our president, encumbered as he is already with the war in Afghanistan and increasing Iraqi violence, feels the need to add to his burden the gargantuan task of Middle-East peace. But whose interest is served in this effort?
If I had been told that in 2010 a head of state whose country buries women up to their armpits while men throw rocks at their heads would be treated like a visiting rock star, I wouldn't have believed it. How much will Western news agencies whitewash this guy?
The first thing you discover about the residents of Hebron, whom the world derisively describes as settlers, is their warmth, friendliness and hospitality.
