Five American soldiers kidnapped and executed in Iraq. The operation was sophisticated and well-planned. Could this be the Iranian answer to our new policy of killing their agents?

Meanwhile, the Iranians are set to begin building a uranium enrichment facility.

Caroline Glick wonders when her Israeli government will begin taking the necessary steps to prevent the Iranians from perpetrating a second Holocaust.

Fred Barnes hopes we will not allow Iraq to become a second Vietnam. We already have, and the end-game is playing out almost exactly as before. This time, it won't just be the locals who pay the price.

Oliver North wonders if anyone in Congress really cares about the troops, who want their sacrifices to have meaning. Which means, of course, they want victory.

Here are two articles that foreshadow the eventual Western surrender to the Islamofascists. This one about the continuing reluctance of the NATO countries to do what is necessary to win in Afghanistan, and another about the domestic advances made by the Islamists.

I hate to continue in my recent pessimistic funk, but I really see so much evidence accumulating that here in the West we have lost our will to live. Our peoples are not procreating, they believe in nothing more than material comfort, and they are loathe to spend any money or effort in fighting against the new totalitarian ideology of Islamism (obviously, there is a significant number of people, many of whom are Americans, who are willing to fight, but they are being undercut by the majority of their fellow citizens who elect spineless politicians).