Today, NATO commander Admiral James Stavridis told the US Senate something some of us have been noticing from afar ever since this weirdo-bizarre R2P “humanitarian” assault in Libya on American national interest began: “We have seen flickers in the intelligence
I’ll admit, there is an argument – a thin, riddled, web of an argument – that it was U.S. interests that drove military interventions gone wrong in Iraq and Afghanistan. I don’t buy the argument: As it morphed into a
I wasn’t even looking for this. I just went to the ISAF website to see whether the grossly underreported weekend murders of two American soldiers (and shootings of four others) by an Afghan security contractor — again — was considered
Photo caption: “Forty-two years of nightmare…Now has come the time of Jihad!” — courtesy Uncle Sucker (photo via John Rosenthal) — Back in August 2005, I wrote a column on what was a particularly great day for sharia, or Islamic
US Army 2nd Lt. Stephen Petraeus, Wardak Province, A-stan, September 2010: Now we know — what? — Some fireworks at Gen. Petraeus’s appearance before Congress yesterday. I would like to see the plain, unadorned transcript but so far all I
Once upon a time, it was kind of a big deal when Gen. David Petraeus came to town to testify before Congress about “the war.” That was when the wars in Iraqistan weren’t exactly young, but also hadn’t yet execeeded
The cast of “Midsomer Murders”: What’s wrong — what’s very wrong — with this picture? — “When the native hears a speech about Western culture, he pulls out his knife,” wrote Frantz Fanon, the seminal theorist of anti-Western Third Worldism
WND.com’s Aaron Klein reports: JERUSALEM – Two members of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ official security forces were arrested in conjunction with this past weekend’s bloody massacre in which five family members were brutally stabbed to death inside their home
We don’t know the impact of Rep. Peter King’s hearings into Islamic “radicalization,” but already we need a cheat sheet to debunk the disinformation and slander heaped upon the Long Island Republican’s head for his one simple “crime,” which I’ll
Washington has a strange new bird — the Libya Hawk. It has been seen alighting in potentially dangerous numbers on the Right side of the political spectrum, neoconservative wavelength. It appears to be a mutation of the War Hawk and
“People occasionally ask, you know, Where is Osama bin Laden, and I think for all we know he could be in Las Vegas next to Elvis….” –David Petraeus, ISAF Commander, Afghanistan, March 9, 2011 (Hear the 4-star general for yourself
Residence of the US Community Organizer, Paris — From Wikileaks, more vital evidence of a US government running amok with malpractice. This time the revelation is that US Embassy in Paris is community-organizing the French umma. The cable, signed by
I almost forgot how the Pundit Right smacked down Glenn Beck over his wholly rational concern that out of Tahrir Square a new caliphate might arise in the Islamic world until I read William Kristol’s op-ed this week. Earlier this
Kabul’s Imam Habibullah: “Let these brothers of monkeys, gorillas and pigs leave this country.” — “With sermons, Afghan clerics wade into politics,” reads the jump-page headline on this excellent reporting through a prism of goofiness, courtesy the Washington Post. Hasn’t
Why CBS kept mum for four days about the brutal sexual assault of network correspondent Lara Logan by a Tahrir Square mob on Feb. 11 we just don’t know. Did Logan, flown out of Cairo by a network-chartered jet to
Caroline Glick wrote a column this month to explain what she calls “Israeli indifference to democratic currents in Arab societies” — an apparent paradox, it seems, to American naifs who believe that a functioning ballot box is all a society
Our men rot in military prison; their enemies comes out in “detainee release shuras.” More than 350 Taliban war prisoners have been released since this particular “reintegration” program began in January 2010. How about a little “reintegration” for the Leavenworth
He’s in — on a sentence far longer than any of his now-free co-defendants — he’s out; he’s free, gets his life and family back together. Now, as of this week, Sgt. Hutchins is going back to military prison. Once
Over at Ruthfully Yours, Ruth King sums up the all-important and distressing implications of the “Trojan” Brotherhood at CPAC: The really disturbing news about CPAC and the ACU is not about crackpot Ron Paul winning in a straw poll or
Guess who said the following: “The earliest defenders of Islam would defend their more numerous and better-equipped oppressors because the early Muslims loved death — dying for the sake of almighty Allah — more than the oppressors of Muslims loved
AP photo and caption: Afghans offer prayers over the coffin containing the body of Malam Awal Gul, an Afghan prisoner who died at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Cuba last week, during his burial ceremony in Jalalabad, east
In the latest Great Debate on the Right — the “caliphate” Beck-oning in Egypt vs. Egypt Kristol-izing in the spirit of “1776” — I’ll take a front seat on Beck’s side of the divide. More to come because this subject
Karzai and the Afghan Supreme Court Mullahs — Five years ago, the story of Abdul Rahman, a Christian convert from Islam under prosecution for his faith in US-“liberated” Afghanistan, did not make the pages of the New York Times. The
Ronald Reagan was my first and best vote, no doubt about it. But into the mounting paeons timed to mark his centennial today, I have to toss some clay if only to slow apotheosis, beatification or whatever celebratory conservatives starved
At Pajamas Media, David Solway asks a question I, too, have been pondering, and includes a nice mention of The Death of the Grown-Up: And when Krauthammer proceeds to dismiss “Islamism” as merely “an ideology of a small minority,” he
