What It Means - Iraq,

What It Means - Iraq, and the Anti-American "Arab Street", haven't had much to cheer about lately. The Iraqi administration's doom is creeping up on them like liver cancer about to metastatize to the brain - they can rant, they can fight, they can give up, but there's not much they can do.

But the Columbia disaster has given them something to cheer about.

Still, hidden in this disaster are the roots of our greatness - and the reasons they hate us. The crew included a black man, two women (one an Indian immigrant, both highly-educated professionals), and an Israeli Jewish war hero, the son of a Holocaust survivor. They were, like most American endeavors, a cross-section of humanity. But unlike some PC-leftist "diversity" lesson, they were seven people working toward the same, greater goal. Their strength was their goal, their training, their belief in their mission. Their diversity was merely a byproduct of living in the only society in the world (I'm talking Western Civilization, here - although we and the UK created and led that civilization as we know it today) that could even try to put such different people into a room together, much less the nation's pre-eminent technological symbol.

Let the "Arab Street" cheer while they can.