The Islamic Republic of Iran has announced the release of the 10 U.S. Navy sailors captured Tuesday in the Persian Gulf. On Wednesday morning, Iran state news declared that the sailors had been taken to international waters and freed there, though
One severely misunderstood element in nation building is the effects of Colonialism. Typically people just look at post-colonial countries as targets for nation building, spinning how they got to such a state for political purposes, and ignoring that one element
Chinese bloggers have pretty clear evidence that China Central Television, in a report about air combat training involving Chinese pilots, was actually using footage from the movie “Top Gun” and trying to pass it off as the real thing. How
It is often said Israel lives in a “dangerous neighborhood” and the Middle East is a “volatile region.” To those characterizations you can now add another adjective “chaotic.” Even the usually self-assured Wall Street Journal seems flummoxed. In an editorial
Today the Egyptian regime faces its gravest threat since Anwar Sadat’s assassination 30 years ago. As protesters take to the street for the third day in a row demanding the overthrow of 82-year old President Hosni Mubarak, it is worth
The Wikileaks revolutions sweeping the Arab world seem democratically promising. Tweeting twenty-somethings challenge iron-fisted dictators. Populist mutineers trash the ruling clique’s Mediterranean villas. Royal families (and wannabe royal families) pack up their gold and flee to Europe or a nearby
Al-Jazeera English is showing live broadcasts from the Egyptian capital, where law and order appear to be breaking down. Protestors have been ordered home under a 6 PM curfew. Al-Jazeera English is reporting that many people are trying to force
Sobering words are coming out of the mouths of Israeli security experts who worry that unrest from Egypt to Yemen may bring radicals to power. The Jerusalem Post reports: “While no analysts here predict any immediate ramifications for Israel’s national
He is a popular speaker at Islamist gatherings and hailed in the New York Times as being among a group of “leading intellectual lights for a new generation of American Muslims looking for homegrown leaders who can help them learn
Events are moving rather quickly. Police have arrested leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, five former members of parliament, and they’ve disrupted internet service. The latter is because the evidence is pretty strong that Facebook and Twitter have been very powerful
The Washington Post, which never passes up an opportunity to attack Sarah Palin, has gone after her for criticizing President Barack Obama’s “Sputnik” reference in the State of the Union Address. Palin noted accurately that what Obama was calling for
For Israelis, the American Left’s assault on Sarah Palin and the conservative movement in the wake of Jared Loughlin’s murderous attack in Tuscon, Arizona was disturbingly familiar. Just as the American leftist media and political leadership immediately sought to blame
