Say Anything Blog

There is an interesting and telling conflation of pictures and news articles at Drudge just now.

First, a picture of a clearly enthused President Bush sharing a warm handshake with the Dalai Lama during this morning’s White House visit.  A visit undertaken despite the vociferous objections by China.  Take that, China! Reads the headline.

Next, there is a picture of Secretary of State Rice standing with Greek Orthodox, Armenian and Catholic officials at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, and an article from Breitbart which says in part,

“Being here at the birthplace of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ has been a very special and moving experience,” said the top US diplomat, a devout Christian whose father and grandfather were Presbyterian ministers…

She prayed and later emerged, saying her visit had been a personal reminder of the power of religion to heal and reconcile those who live in the Holy Land—where Rice has said it is time for a Palestinian state alongside Israel.

Finally, we have a picture of Russia’s latest Tsar…er…president, Vladimir Putin, smiling warmly as he shakes hands and waves with Iran’s President Ahmadinejad during Putin’s state visit to Iran yesterday.  Russia his Iran’s major supplier of nuclear technology…technology which both insist is not intended for production of weapons.  Yeah, right!

The world, it seems to me, is a far more dangerous place than many on the left would lead us to believe.  The Bush administration has certainly made mistakes… as had every president who preceded him.  But the fact that we are faced with a number of different threats from different nations and ideologies is NOT an endorsement of secular multi-culturalism, nor a reason to abandon the faiths that have made this country the success it has become.