[“Neither Israel nor the West at large can long resist radical Islam without some sustaining faith of its own, a faith it will not find unless it makes up its mind to look for it.” — Essayist Richard Fernandez of The Belmont Club looks at the religious aspect of the Terrorist War and finds a critical difference in the nature and intensity of the faiths now in conflict around the world. —- Editor ]

The battles in Lebanon against the Hezbollah have been described as Israel’s first non-Arab war. Andrew Sullivan calls it a religious war, driven by ” the divine mandate that the Islamists believe they are following … where the Jews must be destroyed as a people and as

Aleksander Boyd, a London-based Venezuelan citizen and editor of Vcrisis.com, watches a dark horse candidate emerge into the light in Caracas.

London 24.08.06 | The conventional wisdom of the international community regarding Venezuela is this: Hugo Chavez is a highly destabilizing figure but his opposition is so atomized, so utterly divided, so lacking in unity of purpose that the man may as well stay in power until 2031, as he has pledged many times. The take-away from this conclusions is a shrug. Since little can be done from within Venezuela, less can be done from a foreign perspective.