Why Hamas is Morally Responsible for the Deaths in Gaza
Craig Biddle, publisher of the Objective Standard (where I’m an associate editor), published an article today succinctly pointing out that the deaths in Gaza are Hamas’s fault. Biddle writes, “Hamas is...
View ArticleThe Tragedy of Iraq
While much of America’s left (not to mention legions in Europe) are busy spreading anti-Semitic smears and demonizing Israel for Hamas’s violence, Islamic totalitarians continue to expand their control...
View ArticleU.S. General Murdered by Member of Afghan Security Forces
Army Major General Harold J. Greene was shot and killed yesterday in Afghanistan, “apparently . . . by a member of the security forces he was committed to training,” the Washington Post reports. (Hat...
View ArticleObama on Bombing Islamic State
Today the White House released Barack Obama’s short address on bombing militants of Islamic State in Iraq and on dropping humanitarian supplies to their victims. My initial reaction is that Obama’s...
View ArticleHow the U.S. Government Accidentally Armed Islamic State
This news from Kurdish Irbil is absolutely sickening: “In a bitter irony, the extremists used American armored vehicles and weapons they had seized from the hapless Iraqi military to defeat Kurdish...
View ArticleWill Islamic State Get a Boost in Syria?
The Syrian civil war is so complex that I resorted to reading Wikipedia to try to get a handle on it. The upshot is that the government of brutal tyrant Bashar al-Assad is battling against the Free...
View ArticleThat’s Captain China to You
A Chinese film reviewer for Douban.com wrote of Captain America: The Winter Soldier that the hero’s enemy “is the very country he loves and protects. To love one’s country isn’t the same as loving...
View ArticleChina Flexes Its Power in Latin America, Asia
Consider some recent news stories involving China: Last month, Chinese president Xi Jinping visited left-leaning Brazil and various other Latin American nations, as Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports....
View ArticleHow Saudi Arabia Backs Islamic State Terror
Ed Husain is an “adjunct senior fellow” with the Council on Foreign Relations. In a recent op-ed for the New York Times, he explains how Saudi Arabia actively supports Islamic State and other Islamic...
View ArticleU.S. Scolds Egypt, UAE for Striking Islamic Militants in Libya
The New York Times reports a Libyan story with some bizarre twists. The Islamic militant group Dawn of Libya recently seized control of the international airport in Tripoli (as I mentioned yesterday)....
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