"Afghanistan has once more earned the title, “Graveyard of Empires.”

"Over the past 30 years, the Republican rightwing has become joined at the hip with Israel’s hard right Likud Party, hence the emergence of so-called “Christian Zionists” who are cynically exploited by Israel’s Likud Party even though a generation ago their fathers may have belong to the racist, Jewish-hating Ku Klux Klan.In short, (Iowa is), fertile ground for the Republican party’s far right. We are reminded of the great American writer Upton Sinclair, who wrote in the 1930’s “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”