Today in Iraq and Syria the world is facing a centuries old battle of Muhammadism. Muhammadism is strictly a religious and not a nationalist issue. Western values carry no weight in the world of Islam. The Bush administration charged into Iraq with little in the way of an end game, and under false pretenses at […]
Archives for August 2014
“So, What Exactly Do You Do?”
Chris Rock asked that of Jesse Jackson, but it’s a question that could be asked of many of our top politicians. What do they do? Kevin Williamson in NRO writes that Senator-surgeon Rand Paul is on “vacation” in Guatemala performing eye surgeries on poor children who need care. As the Washington Post notes, it’s not […]
Nineteen Beheaded
In Iraq? Nope, beheadings by our ally Saudi Arabia. You know, the same folk who attacked the twin towers and finance rabid anti-American madrasas around the world. At least 19 people have been beheaded in Saudi Arabia this month in a clampdown by the authorities on drug smuggling and “sorcery,” according to Human Rights Watch […]
ISIS: Contain, Disrupt, Defeat
Dateline: the Aspen Security Forum 2014 General Martin Dempsey, chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, talks about the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham noting that the ancient kingdom of al-Sham stretched from Lebanon to the current state of Israel to Syria to Jordan to Iraq and to Kuwait. General Dempsey says about ISIS, “They […]
Former bin-Laden unit chief on Iraq
Michael Scheuer explains to readers that “Obama, McCain, Graham, Hillary Clinton and much of the media continue to talk the absolute rot of building an ‘inclusive government’ in Iraq in place of Maliki’s regime.” Scheuer continues: This is not going to happen in the lifespan of any of our leaders, nor even in the lifespan […]
ISIS—a Clear and Present Danger?
Americans are rightly sick of war. Iraq has been a disaster, the wrong war. As Peggy Noonan points out in the WSJ, no weapons of mass destruction there. And Saddam Hussein? Saddam, Ms. Noonan writes, was “the garbage-pail lid who kept the garbage of his nation from spilling out.” Now there is a serious threat […]
Prudence and Restraint
In Reason, Cato Institute Senior Fellow Chris Preble takes proponents of intervention in Syria like Hillary Clinton to task. Clinton criticizes Obama’s failure to intervene more in Syria as the catalyst for bringing ISIS to power in the Eastern regions of the country. Preble wonders who Clinton would have allied with. And who, exactly, we were supposed […]
Hooked on Butter
AOC, or Appellation d’Origine Controlee, is a designation given to any agricultural product in France whose character is dependent on the place where it is made. AOC is the ultimate meaning of terroir and environmentally sound farming. In France, there are more than 300 wines, for example, with an AOC designation on their labels. Over 40 […]
Hockey Stick Silliness
Remember the controversial “hockey stick graph” created by, among others, climatologist Dr. Michael E. Mann? Perhaps you have read about Mann’s defamation lawsuit against Rand Simberg, Mark Steyn, CEI and National Review. Read here from the Cato Institute’s Trevor Burrus the downright silliness of the lawsuit and its implied danger to First Amendment-protected speech. As […]
Brilliant Common Sense
To Make and Keep Peace by Claremont Institute fellow and professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University, Angelo M. Codevilla is just the foreign policy book that would have been eagerly endorsed by Founders Washington, Jefferson, Madison and John Quincy Adams. Professor Codevilla’s book, as author Ralph Peters writes, “has invented a new category of […]
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