-George Orwell (attributed--if he did not say it, he should have)

No holiday for tyranny and terror.

In the United States, Friday saw the start of the long Labor Day weekend, which traditionally marks the end of America's summer vacation season.

It was some summer. Proxy rocket attacks by Islamist Iran on northern Israel and provocative rocket launchings by Stalinist North Korea ... Islamist mass murder in Mumbai ... and foiled Islamist mass murder in the sky ... Venezuela brazenly siding with Iran/Hezbollah, Hamas, and Syria ... and North Korea and Cuba ... while closing big energy deals with supposedly Peacefully Rising China ... Beijing and Moscow drawing closer, committed to blocking meaningful moves against Pyongyang and Tehran at the United Nations ... while the lunatic leaders of the rogue states dream of a world without America ... and Israel ... still the only democracy in the barbarous Middle East.

And everywhere, appeasement is in the air.