Diana West on "Making sense of crazy reality"

I am linking to this because West recognizes the relative triviality of Plame-gate and the Roberts nomination compared to currently unfolding events in the Middle East:

It sounds crazy, but this is reality. Monday, Aug. 15, promises to be a great day for sharia, or Islamic law. It marks the end of the constitutional wrangling in Iraq and the beginning of the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and parts of the West Bank. Both events -- fought for, facilitated, even micromanaged by the U.S. of A. -- should expand the domain of Islamic law, which codifies female inferiority and religious inequality. I don't know a better way to quantify the two events. By day's end, Iraq, if it settles as expected on a draft constitution based in sharia, and Gaza, as a new sector of the already sharia-vested Palestinian Authority, will have joined the community of nations at odds with the Free World.

I will add that, incredibly, the current Israeli government practically began the process of ejecting the Jewish residents of Gaza on Tisha B'Av, the date that, more than any other, commemorates the exile of the Jewish people from the Land of Israel.