Clarity is to be cherished, even if the news is bad — and it is not always bad; clarity sometimes has a way of sorting things out. Not always, but sometimes it happens.

Today’s points of interest in our long journey include: (a) Christopher Caldwell’s NYT Magazine piece on Londonistan, etc; (b) Jeff Jacoby’s review of Prayers for the Assassin; and (c) the American Thinker’s latest installment of a dialogue with a Saudi man about religion and life, a dialogue with some subtlety.

We are beginning to revise our opinion of the Bush administration’s being MIA on the ideological elements of this conflict of civilizations. The world is moving along at a good pace in its understanding of the issues and the stakes without the US government getting into territory that could easily interfere with needed actions by semi-allies.

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