Tiger and Amir Taheri

Tiger Woods has the lead going into the weekend, write this one off. Please, don't take me wrong but the man is fired up by his father's death and with his work ethic is likely to win every tournament he enters for a while. He is an excellent role model, as good as America can produce, a true class act and product of the classic game golf is. I tend to root against him because he is so good and I love great golf contests and I will be fully behind him as he leads our Ryder Cup Team against Europe this Fall. I could write pages on the addictive mystery of golf and rock climbing but I need to move on to more serious things. If you don't like Tiger Woods, tell me why, he is an admirable man.
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Amir Taheri offers a very different look at the middle-east conflict, a must read from Opinion Journal.
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The way much of the Western media tells the story, Hezbollah won a great victory against Israel and the U.S., healed the Sunni-Shiite rift, and boosted the Iranian mullahs' claim to leadership of the Muslim world. Portraits of Hassan Nasrallah, the junior mullah who leads the Lebanese branch of this pan-Shiite movement, have adorned magazine covers in the West, hammering in the message that this child of the Khomeinist revolution is the new hero of the mythical "Arab Street."

Probably because he watches a lot of CNN, Iran's "Supreme Guide," Ali Khamenei, also believes in "a divine victory." Last week he asked 205 members of his Islamic Majlis to send Mr. Nasrallah a message, congratulating him for his "wise and far-sighted leadership of the Ummah that produced the great victory in Lebanon."

By controlling the flow of information from Lebanon throughout the conflict, and help from all those who disagree with U.S. policies for different reasons, Hezbollah may have won the information war in the West. In Lebanon, the Middle East and the broader Muslim space, however, the picture is rather different.

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A war we must win!