'If you bomb our cities, we will bomb yours.

President Bush will come here and there will be new "friends" of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who "liberated" them.

Colleagues will malign you if you're a moderately successful journalist.

Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too?

American power in the Middle East is collapsing. It doesn't need much more than a shove, and it will - and that's not going to be a good thing.

President Bush will come here and there will be new 'friends' of America to open a new relationship with the world, new economic fortunes for those who 'liberated' them.