Blog Week in Review, September 22, 2006

Interesting times: a fourteenth-century Crusader quote spoken by the Pope is taken out of context and used to inflame Muslims around the world. BWIR looks at the background, the foreground and the distance between.

Second topic—Flab of the West: Have we become too soft, too pliable, too empathetic, too politically correct to wage an effective and victorious war against those who hate us and our works?

Our special guest panelist is the inimitable Mark Steyn—whose latest book, America Alone, is number 69 at Amazon. Mark mixes it up with regular panelist Glenn Reynolds. Reliably, Austin Bay moderates and Ed Driscoll produces. (Now sponsored by Volvo.)

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