The Islamic Republic of Iran seized two U.S. Navy vessels while they were navigating the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, detaining the ships and ten American sailors near Iran’s Farsi Island, the Pentagon said.
They spent days trying to drive home the idea that the US was not in charge of what the administration likes to call our most recent “kinetic military action.” President Obama made it perfectly clear that the United States was
Seldom do I waste time with rebutting articles, and especially not from publications like Rolling Stone. Today, numerous people sent links to the latest Rolling Stone tripe. The story is titled “THE KILL TEAM, THE FULL STORY.” It should be
When the Hezbollah and Hamas supporting Professor Bassam Frangieh brought Syrian ambassador to America Imad Moustapha to Claremont McKenna College’s campus in 2009, a student in the Arabic program asked, in all seriousness, what America could do to help Syria
Just in time for the handover to NATO, Britain’s Telegraph reports: Since the conflict began, a squadron of 18 RAF Typhoon pilots has enforced the Libya no-fly zone from an air base in southern Italy. However, a shortage of qualified
Educable? At least by her? Last night for a few brief shining television moments (captured here [3]), Wafa Sultan, courageous author of the indispensable jeremiad “A God Who Hates [4],” strove gamely to educate Bill O’Reilly–often seemingly impenetrable [5] by
This is the latest in a series of exclusive interviews with Dr. Paul Kengor, professor at Grove City College, on his latest work, Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century, which is based on a remarkable volume
by Steven Emerson This morning Senator Dick Durbin, senior Democrat of Illinois, is holding a Senate Judiciary hearing on ”Protecting the Civil Rights of American Muslims.” Sounds all well and good. Who could be against the civil rights of Muslims
How curious. At the very moment that the threat posed to U.S. interests by the toxic Islamist organization known as the Muslim Brotherhood is becoming ever more palpable, a top Senate Democrat seems determined to suppress Americans’ understanding of that
In a sea of perpetual turmoil that is the Middle East, the US holds few real cards. Our options are few and our choices even fewer. That is why, much to our criticism, we’ve had friendly relations with dictators and
Why the heck was this guy even allowed to stay in the Army? From Wired: A year before he entered the Army, police removed WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning from his father’s home after he allegedly threatened his stepmother with a
Now this is interesting. I suspect there is even more to this story. “One of Colonel Gaddafi’s sons was on a U.S. State Department approved tour of America as the uprising in Libya began, it was revealed today. Khamis Gaddafi,
After decades of stasis, the Middle East is in uproar. With too much going on to focus on a single place, here’s a review of developments in four key countries. Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi in full military splendor. Libya: With most Americans
