Some exerpts from a very good thinker and writer. =============== Editor’s note: Fouad Ajami, the Middle Eastern scholar and a contributor to these pages for 27 years, died Sunday at age 68. Excerpts from his writing in the Journal are below, and a related editorial appears nearby: “A Tangled History,” a review of Bernard Lewis’s book, “Islam and the West,” June 24, 1993: The... Read more
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Fouad Ajami on America and the Arabs
June 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle East, Radical IslamFouad Ajami, Great American
June 24 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Middle EastI am sorry to see him gone. He wrote with insight and clarity. RIP ========== Fouad Ajami would have been amused, but not surprised, to read his own obituary in the New York Times. “Edward Said, the Palestinian cultural critic who died in 2003, accused [Ajami] of having ‘unmistakably racist prescriptions,'” quoted obituarist Douglas Martin. Thus was Said, the most mendacious, self-infatuated and... Read more
Netanyahu Advises Obama
June 23 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle East, Obama‘When Your Enemies Are Fighting Each Other, Weaken Both’ – I’m much warmer to Netanyaho’s perspective on the Middle East than those who don’t have to live next door. =========== Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his opposition to widescale American intervention in the Iraq crisis, advising President Obama that “when your enemies are fighting one another, don’t strengthen either one... Read more
Obama’s Iraq Feint
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iraq, Middle East, Obama, Radical IslamHe fooled Americans with a promise of change and transparency. Is his real goal offering the US to Islam in exchange for “Supreme Islam Ruler of the World”? ======================= So President Obama now says he will send “up to 300” military advisers to Iraq to help reverse the advance of al Qaeda, but not to do any fighting. He may agree... Read more
America Shouldn’t Choose Sides in Iraq’s Civil War
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Iraq, Middle EastAn opinion worth considering. But not choosing who should “win” is different than choosing who we don’t want to win. ========== By Rand Paul – June 19, 2014 7:12 p.m. ET Though many claim the mantle of Ronald Reagan on foreign policy, too few look at how he really conducted it. The Iraq war is one of the best examples of where we... Read more
Our Friends the Mullahs
June 21 | Posted by mrossol | Iran, Middle EastUpdated June 18, 2014 7:03 p.m. ET Such is America’s strategic disarray in Iraq that the Obama Administration has come up with a new version of an old idea—court Iran as an ally. So in order to defeat Sunni extremists who want to form a potentially terrorist state, we are going to get in bed with a terrorist-sponsoring Shiite regime that... Read more
