OCTOBER 11, 2009, 7:02 P.M. ET The Ugly Premise of ‘Settlement’ Opponents About 20% of Israel is Arab. Would it be a tragedy if 10% of future Palestine is Jewish? By R. JAMES WOOLSEY At the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Festival this past July, Salam Fayyad, acting prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, spoke enthusiastically about […]
Lyndon Baines Obama http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33828 by Jed Babbin 10/05/2009 Deciding the right strategy begins with asking the right question. When the White House was waltzing McChrystal around trying to find a way to talk him out of his request for more troops, I questioned the wisdom of applying the Petraeus counterinsurgency strategy which worked in Iraq […]
The Northern Affront By Emmanuel Navon www.navon.com When Jeremiah prophesized, twenty-seven centuries ago, that “Evil shall come forth from the North” (Jeremiah, 1:14), he meant Syria. In today’s bizarre world, this prophecy surely would apply to Scandinavia. On the face of it, Scandinavians should count their blessings: great bodies, safe cars, pristine views, and a […]
09, 10:37 P.M. ET The Real Afghan Lessons From Vietnam The ‘clear and hold’ strategy of Gen. Creighton Abrams was working in South Vietnam. Then Congress pulled the plug on funding. By LEWIS SORLEY More than 30 years have passed since North Vietnam, in gross violation of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords, conquered South Vietnam. […]
Charles Krauthammer October 5, 2009 Manhattan Institute The weathervanes of conventional wisdom are registering another round of angst about America in decline. New theories, old slogans: Imperial overstretch. The Asian awakening. The post- American world. Inexorable forces beyond our control bringing the inevitable humbling of the world hegemon. On the other side of this debate […]
Obama’s Nobel Prize: The World as Farce http://newledger.com/2009/10/obamas-nobel-prize-the-world-as-farce/ by Benjamin Kerstein The news that the Nobel Prize Committee has just awarded the coveted Peace Prize to President Barack Obama immediately put me in mind of an anecdote recounted by Margaret MacMillan in her book Nixon and Mao, During the Cultural Revolution, an American remarked casually […]
GO TO LINK ON THE RIGHT OF THE PAGE JIHADWATCH Muslim engineer at European Organization for Nuclear Research “expressed a desire to carry out attacks” Oct 11, 2009 03:15 am | Marisol An engineer on a prestigious and high-profile project: another strike against the “poverty causes terrorism” claim. Which excuse will this guy trot out […]
http://marathonpundit.blogspot.com/2009/10/obama-stimulus-campaign-sign-outside.html Saturday, October 10, 2009 Obama stimulus “campaign sign” outside demolished public housing unit One of Chicago’s most notorious agencies is the Chicago Housing Authority. In 1996, after decades of dysfunctional management, the federal government temporarily took it over. Public housing was the biggest failure of the New Deal, and the succeeding generation of liberals […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1060/Yale-Prof-Danish-Motoons-Objectionable-Incest-Polygamy-OK.aspx Yale Prof: Danish Motoons “Objectionable,” Incest, Polygamy OK Oct 8 Written by: Diana West Thursday, October 08, 2009 5:36 AM Just as it hard to look away from a wreck, it is hard to look away from Yale. At a Motooon “panel” this week, three Yale profs delivered presentations “describing what made the cartoons […]
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1061/Sharia-and-Man-at-Yale.aspx This week’s column zooms in on a small but symbolic sector of the Western front where the war on sharia has been lost without any comprehension of the battle having taken place. I am referring again to Yale, where the New Yale Order — deference to sharia norms regarding free speech about Islam — […]
