Another spot on column by Suzanne Fields.

One day I look forward to in my daily perusals over at Jewish World Review is Monday, when Mark Steyn’s column appears. As usual, today’s is a winner.

That’s the issue: Pan-Islamism is the profound challenge to conventional ideas of citizenship and nationhood. Of course, if you say that at the average Ivy League college, you’ll get a big shrug: Modern multicultural man disdains to be bound by the nation state, too; he prides himself on being un citoyen du monde. The difference is that, for Western do-gooders, it’s mostly a pose: They may occasionally swing by some Third World basket-case and condescend to the natives, but for the most part the multiculti set have no wish to live anywhere but an advanced Western democracy. It’s a quintessential piece of leftie humbug. They may think globally, but they don’t act on it.

Read the entire outstanding column.

Hurricane Harry at H H Blowhard has a great post on how to negotiate with terrorists, LOL, that you’ve just got to check out, it’s pretty funny but at the same time couldn’t be any truer.

Mark Steyn’s got another great commentary out, in this column.

“Disproportion” is the concept of the moment. Do you know how to play? Let’s say 150 missiles are lobbed at northern Israel from the Lebanese village of Qana and the Israelis respond with missiles of their own that kill 28 people. Whoa, man, that’s way “disproportionate.”

Read the column, it’s definitely right on point.

James Lileks’ OpEd must be read.

Always On Watch, an already great blog, links to this great commentary, which must be read.

Read this!

Mark Steyn’s current column has got to be the truest and funniest I’ve ever seen on Mideast peace efforts.

An excerpt –

It’s easy to fly in a guy in a suit to hold a meeting. Half the fellows inside the Beltway have Middle East “peace plans” named after them. Bush flew in himself a year or two back to announce his “road map.” Before that it was Cheney, who flew in with the Cheney plan, which was a plan to open up a road map back to the last plan, which would get us back to “Tenet,” which would get us back to “Mitchell,” which would get us back to “Wye River,” which would get us back to “Oslo,” which would get us back to Kansas.

LOL!

Mona Charen is one of my favorite political columnists. I recently read her book, Do Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim To Help(And The Rest Of Us) and was really disappointed…. when I realized I’d hit the last page. It was so on-point and such a great read that I hated it to end. She really knows whereof she speaks, and hasn’t got any problem with saying it point blank, PC be damned.

At any rate, her latest column weighs in on Israel’s justification for the long overdue defensive action they are engaged in, even as I type this post.

Excerpt –

(The Washington)

Post starts with the swearing in of the Hamas government on March 29. Fair enough. But the next item is “June 9: Explosion kills seven members of a Gaza family. Witnesses blame Israeli artillery, but Israel denies it.” Missing is any reference to the non-stop shelling of Israel from the Gaza strip that began in 2005 and has not let up since. Nearly 3,000 rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel…

Read On.

Greetings from the U.S.A., dart board of a largely ungrateful world!

When I look at all the sacrifices this country has made and continues to make on behalf of so many others, then listen to all the negative feedback we get for it, it almost makes me want to continue building that wall along the Mexican border…. until it completely surrounds this nation, and just tell all those other countries, “Good luck on the outside”.

Peter Brookes sums things up as completely as I’ve ever seen them done in this regard, in an absolute must-read OpEd.

For all the worldwide whining and bellyaching about the United States, July 4th — America’s 230th birthday — provides an opportune time for them to consider for just a moment what the world might be like without good ol’ Uncle Sam.

The picture isn’t pretty. Absent U.S. leadership, diplomatic influence, military might, economic power and unprecedented generosity, life aboard planet earth would likely be pretty grim, indeed. Set aside the differences America made last century — just imagine a world where this country had vanished on Jan. 1, 2001.

On security, the United States is the global balance of power. While it’s not our preference, we are the world’s “cop on the beat,” providing critical stability in some of the planet’s toughest neighborhoods.

Further,

Also missing would be other gifts from “Uncle Sugar” — starting with 22 percent of the U.N. budget. That includes half the operations of the World Food Program, which feeds over 100 million in 81 countries.

Gone would be 17 percent of UNICEF’s costs to feed, vaccinate, educate and protect children in 157 countries — and 31 percent of the budget of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which assists more than 19 million refugees across the globe.

In 2005, Washington dispensed $28 billion in foreign aid, more than double the amount of the next highest donor (Japan), contributing nearly 26 percent of all official development assistance from the large industrialized countries.

Moreover, President Bush’s five-year $15 billion commitment under the Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief is the largest commitment by a single nation toward an international health initiative — ever — working in over 100 (mostly African) countries.

The United States is the world’s economic engine. We not only have the largest economy, we spend 40 percent of the world’s budget on R&D, driving mind-boggling innovation in areas like information technology, defense and medicine.

We’re the world’s ATM, too, providing 17 percent of the International Monetary Fund’s resources for nations in fiscal crisis, and funding 13 percent of World Bank programs that dole out billions in development assistance to needy countries.

And what does Uncle Sam get in return? Mostly grief, especially from all the ungrateful freeloaders who benefit tremendously from the global “public goods” we so selflessly provide with our time, effort, blood and treasure. How easily — and conveniently — they forget . . . unless they need help, of course.

Brooks’ OpEd is fantastic and seems to cover all the bases. Read the entire piece here.