Archive | July, 2007
Dennis Prager: Why “Islamophobia” Is a Brilliant Term
What do anti-Semitism, racism and Islamophobia have in common? In fact, nothing. But according to Islamist groups, Western media and the United Nations, they have everything in common. Anti-Semites hate all Jews, racists hate all members of another race, and Islamophobes hates all Muslims. Whoever coined the term “Islamophobia” was quite shrewd. Notice the intellectual [...]
Continue reading...And now a word from George S. Patton… kinda
Published Monday, July 30, 2007 at 7:28 pm
NYT Op-Ed: A War We Just Might Win
Published Monday, July 30, 2007 at 6:52 pm
The New York Times Op-Ed page is typically a cesspool of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) and an intellectually dishonest reporting of the facts on the ground in Iraq, so kudos to them for printing Michael E. O’Hanlon and Kenneth M. Pollack’s A War We Just Might Win: VIEWED from Iraq, where we just spent eight [...]
Continue reading...Christopher Hitchens: Why are we so scared of offending Muslims?
Published Monday, July 30, 2007 at 4:39 pm
Before me is a recent report that a student at Pace University in New York City has been arrested for a hate crime in consequence of an alleged dumping of the Quran. Nothing repels me more than the burning or desecration of books, and if, for example, this was a volume from a public or [...]
Continue reading...Hugh Hewitt: When General Petraeus Reports
Published Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 1:03 pm
President Bush made an excellent speech this week, laying out the case that al Qaeda in Iraq is a subsidiary of al Qaeda in Waziristan. He went further, and delineated the differences between the various terrorist organizations which share an ideology. His central premise –a retreat in Iraq means a huge win for al Qaeda [...]
Continue reading...The Age: At least 30 former Guantanamo Bay detainees have been killed or recaptured after taking up arms against allied forces following their release
Published Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 12:33 pm
They have been discovered mostly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but not in Iraq, a US Defence Department spokesman told The Age yesterday. Commander Jeffrey Gordon said the detainees had, while in custody, falsely claimed to be farmers, truck drivers, cooks, small-arms merchants, low-level combatants or had offered other false explanations for being in Afghanistan. “We [...]
Continue reading...Charles Krauthammer: Obama would be quite the Democratic gamble
Published Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 12:28 pm
For Barack Obama, it was strike two. And this one was a right-down-the-middle question from a YouTuber in Monday night’s South Carolina debate: “Would you be willing to meet separately, without precondition, during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea?†[...]
Continue reading...James Taranto: Democrats go soft on crimes against humanity
Published Thursday, July 26, 2007 at 6:29 am
Barack Obama’s latest pronouncement on Iraq should have shocked the conscience. In an interview with the Associated Press last week, the freshman Illinois senator and Democratic presidential candidate opined that even preventing genocide is not a sufficient reason to keep American troops in Iraq. “Well, look, if that’s the criteria by which we are making [...]
Continue reading...Bret Stephens: Syria Occupies Lebanon. Again.
Published Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 10:51 pm
As of this minute, Syria occupies at least 177 square miles of Lebanese soil. That you are now reading about it for the first time is as much a scandal as the occupation itself. The news comes by way of a fact-finding survey of the Lebanese-Syrian border just produced by the International Lebanese Committee for [...]
Continue reading...Michael J. Totten: In the Wake of the Surge
Published Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 6:50 pm
Independent journalist Michael J. Totten is on the ground in Baghdad, and reports on the progress being made as a result of the “surge”: “Do they ever get pissed off when you search them?†I said. “Not very often,†he said. “They understand we’re trying to protect them.†“This is not what I expected in [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Tuesday, July 31, 2007 at 7:10 am
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