Quote of the Day

Mark Steyn, writing for the Orange County Register, on the right way to look at the recent "speech in Cairo."

A wealthy nation living on the accumulated cultural capital of a glorious past can dodge its rendezvous with fate, but only for a while. That sound you heard in Cairo is the tingy ping of a hollow superpower.

Ouch! He watched the last days of the British Empire's decline and thinks he sees us taking the same path.