About the "Ground Zero Mosque," I'm torn, as I so often am, between my libertarian and neo-con halves. Others are, too. Two who aren't are Alex Massie and R. Emmett Tyrrell.

Here's Massie in The (U.K.) Spectator:
This is much more a civil war within the Islamic world than it is a confrontation with the west (though it is that too). Osama bin Laden's real enemies are the Muslims he considers heretics and moderates. That's the struggle he's interested in and the fight with "the west" is merely a means to achieving that final, internal, triumph. This being so, among the very worst things we can do is lump all Muslims together and, by doing so, suggest that we don't think there's any salient difference between the brands and branches of Islam.

Good point. But here's Tyrrell in The American Spectator:
[W]hen thugs intoning "Allahu Akbar" have slaughtered hundreds of innocent Americans on American soil, it is inappropriate to raise a mosque nearby.

Dunno. I'm inclined to the Tyrrell version. But the fact that the blasted thing's not at Ground Zero at all but on Park Place, two blocks away, does make a difference. Damn! Sometimes the ability to see two sides of an argument is a curse. Oh, for the simple-minded clarity of zealotry! Wait a minute....