Tony Blankley takes on official dhimmitude re Iran in the Washington Times (thanks to JE):
The Western response to the threat of Iran gaining nuclear weapons is tracking dangerously toward appeasement and failure. It is not yet inevitable? President Bush has insisted in two State of the Union addresses, and currently, that he will not permit it to happen. But most government officials in Europe and here, and of course the dominant media are already deeply into resignation, rationalization and denial. Indeed, in the last couple of years the absolute exclusion of a military option has become the only “respectable” posture among both European and American officials and senior media personages.
Read it all.