Tag Archive | "Terrorism"
Stephen F. Hayes: Obama’s intelligence chief admits the value of tough interrogations
Admiral Dennis Blair, the top intelligence official in the United States, thanks to his nomination by Barack Obama, believes that the coercive interrogation methods outlawed by his boss produced “high-value information” and gave the U.S. government a “deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country.” He included those assessments in a [...]
Continue reading...Tawfik Hamid: Islam Should Prove It’s a Religion of Peace
Published Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 10:53 am
The film “Fitna” by Dutch parliament member Geert Wilders has created an uproar around the world because it links violence committed by Islamists to Islam. Many commentators and politicians — including the British government, which denied him entry to the country last month — reflexively accused Mr. Wilders of inciting hatred. The question, however, is [...]
Continue reading...Christopher Hitchens: A U.N. resolution seeks to criminalize opinions that differ with the Islamic faith.
Published Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Though it is written tongue-in-cheek in the language of human rights and of opposition to discrimination, the nonbinding U.N. Resolution 62/154, on “Combating defamation of religions,” actually seeks to extend protection not to humans but to opinions and to ideas, granting only the latter immunity from being “offended.” The preamble is jam-packed with hypocrisies that [...]
Continue reading...Judea Pearl: When will our luminaries stop making excuses for terror?
Published Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 7:04 pm
But the clearest endorsement of terror as a legitimate instrument of political bargaining came from former President Jimmy Carter. In his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” Mr. Carter appeals to the sponsors of suicide bombing. “It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end [...]
Continue reading...Jack Engelhard: Spare the Pieties on Gaza
Published Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 10:17 am
Israel is a Jewish State. Is that your problem? Frankly, given a choice, I prefer the skinheads and other brutes who express their anti-Semitism openly. In such places, we know the enemy. But please spare me the pieties and the righteous indignation of those “good people” protesting throughout Europe against Israel ’s defensive operation in [...]
Continue reading...Mark Steyn: Jews get killed, but Muslims feel vulnerable
Published Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Shortly after the London Tube bombings in 2005, a reader of Tim Blair, the Sydney Daily Telegraph’s columnar wag, sent him a note-perfect parody of a typical newspaper headline: “British Muslims Fear Repercussions Over Tomorrow’s Train Bombing.” Indeed. And so it goes. This time round — Bombay — it was the Associated Press that filed [...]
Continue reading...Orson Scott Card: What Obama Should Have Said
Published Thursday, May 29, 2008 at 10:35 am
It would have been so simple for Obama to handle this like a statesman instead of a whiner. President Bush went to Israel to affirm America’s ironclad support of Israel’s survival as a nation. While there are Americans who don’t agree with it, this has been the policy of the United States from the foundation [...]
Continue reading...James Taranto eviscerates Wesley Clark
Published Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 7:01 am
Today’s New York Times features one of the silliest op-eds ever. The authors are Wesley Clark, the retired general and 2004 presidential candidate, and Kal Raustiala, director of the UCLA’s Burkle Center, where Clark is a fellow. (The Burkle Center is named for Ron Burkle, a billionaire pal of Bill Clinton.) Here is their argument: [...]
Continue reading...Jed Babbin: Let’s Undo the Concessions to Iran
Published Monday, July 9, 2007 at 11:50 am
There are those such as former Secretary of State James Baker and future-former Secretary of State Rice who believe that by negotiating with the Iranians we can talk them out of their nuclear ambitions and into helping stabilize Iraq. When challenged, negotiation devotees cannot identify one single instance where negotiations have succeeded in changing the [...]
Continue reading...Robert Spencer: Fact or “Islamophobia�
Published Wednesday, July 4, 2007 at 7:56 am
When he spoke this week at the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Islamic Center of Washington, President Bush said: “In the Middle East, we have seen instead the rise of a group of extremists who seek to use religion as a path to power and a means of domination. This [...]
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 9:34 am
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