“O God, destroy the Jews and their supporters. O God, destroy the Christians and their supporters and followers, shake the ground under them, instill fear in their hearts, and freeze the blood in their veins” (Sheikh Akram Abd-al-Razzaq al-Ruqayhi from the Grand Mosque in Sanaa on Yemeni state TV, Aug 9th).

There now, who might he be praying to? Not God...oh I don't know....could it be......SATAN?

And there might be something to that.

To Western intellectuals: It's OK with me if you want to air beliefs that appeal to your vanity as prophets, but must you choose ones that tend toward the ending of our civilization?

Realpolitik Meets Realigion

Is it a RAND analyst, or the Archbishop of Canterbury?

"The exact calculation of what weaponry might be employed by a cornered Saddam Hussein is uncertain; and so is the retaliation that might then be provoked in the region from its sole nuclear power, Israel," he says.