The current great struggle between Judaism and Islam, mirrors the greater thousand year-long, hard slog between the Crusaders of Christendom and the Islamists of Jihadistan. This struggle over land, is being repeated here in the USA with the Mexican occupation of American territory by 38 million Mexican nationals, who come in the name of La Reconquista.

As of November 30, 2008 the number of U.S. dead was 4,205. The amount of money the U.S. has poured into Iraq as the result of the invasion exceeds $500 billion. Also at the end of November, the Iraqi parliament voted on an agreement that would have the bulk of the U.S. military depart by 2011.

The headline sounded innocuous enough – "Condoleezza Rice plays piano for Queen Elizabeth II." My first thought was how nice, how quaint it is for Dr. Rice to play the "Brahms Piano Quintet" with Foreign Secretary David Miliband's wife, Louise, and three members of the London Symphony Orchestra.

If you have been paying close attention to the news lately, and I don't mean election news,
you have noticed that certain world leaders have been hinting strongly about a coming event, or events, that is/are imminent and will cause great distress on the people of the planet.

In a time when most Americans are understandably occupied with concerns over the economy and their own bottom lines (to say nothing of the presidential election), it is worth noting that we still have numerous international obligations, with our presence in Iraq perhaps the most apparent at the moment.