Foreign Confidential ™

Amid the Obama administration's attempts to appease the Taliban by reaching out to supposedly "reconcilable"--"non-Al Qaeda"--elements of the clerical fascist movement, Pakistan's top Taliban commander says his group will soon attack Washington, DC. Click here for the story.

He may not be bluffing. Counter-terrorism experts believe that Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other Islamist terrorist groups--including, possibly, Hezbollah--are planning Mumbai-style assaults on American cities.

Weakness invites aggression. Any and all attempts to appease radical Islam, including Islamist terrorists and Islamist terrorist-sponsoring nations, are bound to fail. Appeasement of radical Islam will not prevent war and terrorism; instead, it will lead to more war and more terrorism.