Some grim thoughts about what the Iranians are up to.

Danger signals coming from Lebanon.

Europe continues to slide towards a new Dark Age, at least according to some.

Con Coughlin says the Iranians are training al Qaeda operatives.

The Afghans are saying that the Pakistanis are the source of suicide bombers afflicting their country.

Cal Thomas says our enemies were the real winners of last week's election.

Pat Buchanan says we are looking for the exit ramp out of Iraq, which will mean grim consequences for those Iraqis who threw in their lot with us.

The picture seems pretty bleak. An insurgency that cannot be defeated in Afghanistan because it is based in Pakistan. An insurgency that cannot be defeated in Iraq because it is based in Iran and Syria (and, perhaps, funded in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere). American power blunted because we were unwilling to launch a massive, global war against the Islamofascists and their allies. The result being a weaker America and, I would argue, an even greater chance that the big war will happen, and it will be even bigger, bloodier, and longer that it would have been otherwise (just like World War II, which would have been shorter and less destructive if the British and French had taken on the Nazis in 1938 over Czechoslovakia instead of waiting until the invasion of Poland in 1939).