The language of intolerance is not without consequences. Unfortunately, the intolerant are too weak minded to understand the consequences of their own words. So-called "conservatives", taking their cue from the "You're with us, or with the terrorists" jargon of their President...

As was predicted by Middle East experts prior to the Bush/Cheney invasion of Iraq, Iran has been the chief beneficiary of the thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars we have wasted there. For decades Sadaam Hussein, whose ambitions had nothing to do with religion, acted as a foil and a...