Review & Outlook: Obama Ratifies Bush – WSJ.com. I haven’t heard too much crowing… from either side… No one has done more to revive the reputation of Bush-era antiterror policies than the Obama Administration. In its latest policy reversal, yesterday Mr. Obama said the U.S. would resume the military tribunals for Guantanamo terrorists that he unilaterally suspended two years ago, and he... Read more
Archive for the ‘Radical Islam’ Category
Gunmen Kill Pakistan’s Religious Minorities Minister
March 4 | Posted by mrossol | Radical IslamGunmen Kill Pakistan’s Religious Minorities Minister – WSJ.com. Of course, this has nothing, nothing to do with Islam… Or? ============ By ZAHID HUSSAIN And TOM WRIGHT ISLAMABAD—Suspected Islamic militants shot dead the most senior Christian in Pakistan’s national government, in the latest sign that political moderates backed by the U.S. are failing to rein in a growing wave of Islamist extremism. The... Read more
Major Hasan, ‘Star Officer’
February 15 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Politically correct, Radical IslamFrom Tunis to Cairo to Riyadh?
February 15 | Posted by mrossol | Middle East, Radical IslamKaren Elliott House: From Tunis to Cairo to Riyadh? – WSJ.com. Think it can’t happen here? I would rather not live to find out. ========== In any authoritarian regime, instability seems unthinkable up to the moment of upheaval, and that is true now for Saudi Arabia. But even as American influence recedes across the Middle East, the U.S. soon may ... Read more
Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood
February 15 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Middle East, Radical Islam, The LeftStephens: Understanding the Muslim Brotherhood – WSJ.com. So you think they are moderates, eh? =============================== It’s what the good people on West 40th Street like to call a “Times Classic.” On Feb. 16, 1979, the New York Times ran a lengthy op-ed by Richard Falk, a professor of international law at Princeton, under the headline “Trusting Khomeini.” “The depiction of... Read more
