Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It’s the only thing “real” men do that doesn’t seem to threaten their masculinity. ~ Erma Bombeck

Captain’s Quarters (Ed Morrissey) Arabs Fear Iran More Than They Hate The Jews — “For all their talk, the Arabs understand that Israel really presents no long-term threat to their own regimes. Israel does not covet land outside of their own territory and parts of the West Bank. They do not want Lebanon for themselves, nor Jordan nor Syria. They want to be left alone. Iran, on the other hand, wants to pick up where Saddam Hussein left off. Rather than a pan-Arab vision, though, the mullahcracy wants to reestablish the Caliphate, a pan-Islamism with Teheran in charge. That puts all of their regimes at risk, regardless of whether Iran fails or succeeds.”

Rhymes With Right (Greg) A Reminder Of Hezbollah’s Relations With America — “Lest we forget, the folks fought by the Israelis today are the same folks who gave us 241 dead Marines in Beirut and who also killed 63 destroying our embassy there in 1983. They killed 2 U.S. servicemen in another attack on the embassy there in 1984. This is the same Hezbollah that killed Colonel William Higgins and CIA Station Chief William Buckley and other Americans in Lebanon during the 1980s, and who kidnapped many more. And these are the same folks who hijacked TWA flight 847 in 1985, and dumped Navy diver Robert Stetham’s dead body on the airport runway.”

Power Line (Paul Mirengoff) Dr. Goebbels, call your office — “In an obscene attempt to obtain political mileage, the Democrats are claiming that President Bush is responsible for the outbreak of war in the Middle East. Howard Dean claims that the war would not have occurred if the Democrats had been in power because the Dems would have worked the past six years to prevent it. And Sen. Dodd has made basically the same assertion. Meanwhile, Rep. Jane Harmon contends that the Bush administration is to blame for our poor to non-existent relations with Syria and Iran which, she says, prevent us from using diplomacy to end the crisis.”

Ankle Biting Pundits (Bull Dog Pundit) Howard Dean: God’s Gift To Republicans — “But the larger point here is that Howard Dean and many Democrats have no clue about the real world if they think that the Palestinians and other Arab nations want to negotiate, and would abide by its terms if they ever did reach a “settlement”. You can’t go around using “moral authority” when one side has no morals and simply wants to annihilate the other side.”

TMH’s Bacon Bits (Bergbikr) Dastardly Discovery Distortions — “The program [Global Warming: What You Need To Know. Jim] is hosted by Tom Brokaw whom MRC labeled as a liberal partisan enlisting like minded ’scientists’ to reiterate and extend the message of Al Gore’s environmentalist movie, An Inconvenient Truth.

The Discovery Channel’s web page for the program should be visited. A mere glance at this site will convince all that the ‘Chicken Little’ mentality is prospering at Discovery. “