Interesting Saturday

There is alot of informative reading out there in cyberland. I came across a great policy speech by Condoleeza Rice at Princeton this week, boy is she good, the transcript is here, (hattip:Tigerhawk) and a must read.
Amir Taheri has an interesting piece up on Karen Hughes' trip to the Middle-East and what she is likely to find, that the anti-americanism we hear about is propulgated by western media, not by the Joe-blow Arab on the street.
Michael Yon has a new dispatch up on how the "deuce-four"24th ID in Mosul helped a little Iraqi girl get to the US for treatment for a heart condition. If you want to know what the Iraqi people think of the US, read his dispatches from there, imbedded in the battle for Mosul.

To change course alittle to the securing of our borders, the American Spectator has a great piece up by J.Peter Freire on the Minuteman Project with a link to their handbook,(requires Adobe Acrobat), very impressive. I support what they are doing even more so after reading it. Securing the border is prerequisite to tackling the huge numbers already here as total amnesty and total deportation are not politically feasible it must center around an employment program sponsored by employers and a crackdown on all public and private intities that subsidize illegal immigration.

And don't miss another great read from Rabbi Daniel Lapin, something the Goat fails to understand is the hatred of the Jews. Perhaps my readers can fill me in. I am semi-well read and have yet to find a plausible connection outside of Islamism and it's fascist offshoots. Why the hatred? As a Christian I see them as our spiritual father's and the developer's of law and order in society, perhaps that is what the hate. If so why are the supremely controlling and autocratic regimes of fascism and communism so despising of the Jews? Is it that belief in a Higher Being and an afterlife provides HOPE, and a personal striving for goodness? Could it be that Judeo/Christian beliefs expose evil for what it is? Could it be we believe in the freedom of the people to make and adjudicate common law?I fail to understand.