Oops, I forgot what Meryl persists in calling the Exception Clause but is more properly termed “the Bensky Corollary To Everything:” Every statement, policy, or pronouncement by anyone, anywhere, at any time, contains the tacit proviso: “Except Jews.”

I don’t know if Ledeen knows the score, but apparently Iran doesn’t: the suicide bombers – not unlike the majority of them in Iraq – take their orders from the Saudis. If this Iranian attack goes through – regardless of from what quarter it emanates – the 18th c. cult of Wahhabism will be the face of the Mideast (and, thanks to Saudi petrodollars, the face of Islam globally). It will be like the time that the Puritans (Cromwell, ad nauseam) dealt a mortal wound to Christianity in the West. Increasingly, the religion of the Anglo-American world became .. commercial enterprise. Those are the values we’ve chosen and, because the Saudis have *money*, we are pretty much at their mercy ..