Iranian missile tests sent shock waves across the Middle East this past week, with the clerical regimes spokesmen leaving no doubt the demonstration was aimed squarely at Israel. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameneis representative to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Ali Shirazi, threatened to "burn" Tel Aviv while IRGC Commander Mohammed Ali-Jafaris comments took aim directly at Israels nuclear facilities at Dimona.

An e-mail making the rounds of Washington is asking that the George W. Bush administration dispatch U.S. armed forces to Lebanon to rescue the besieged pro-Western government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora from the pro-Iranian and pro-Syrian Hezbollah coup detat.

SPECIAL REPORT: The Bush administration has decided that calling the enemy by his name is too risky, too politically incorrect, or oddly, somehow too laudatory.

Knowing the Enemy to Win or Destroy Him

Is the Bush administration abandoning Israel?

Something remarkable happened on October 18, the day that al-Qaida tried and failed to assassinate Benazir Bhutto. A brave woman came home to a tumultuous welcome from thousands of Pakistanis who would like to see her win the legislative elections initially scheduled for January 2008.