http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/ Cracking the Code of Civilization Civilization is a code, and while we easily fall into the habit of assuming that civilized norms are universal, they are limited to the civilized. Kindness, humility and reaching out to the enemy are valid behaviors only when they are likely to be reciprocated. Practicing that code toward nations […]
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-06-27-Burqa_N.htm BERLIN — A growing movement in Europe to ban burqas and niqabs, the face coverings worn by some Muslim women, is igniting a debate over individual religious freedom vs. broader cultural values. The movement started in Belgium when a bill making it a crime to wear a face veil in public passed unanimously in […]
http://www.military.com/news/article/petraeus-wont-alter-afghan-plan.html JIRGA MEANS MAKING PEACE WITH “INSURGENTS” INSTEAD OF PERMANENTLY “SEDATING” THEM..RSK “Down in the ranks, however, the rules are widely perceived as too restrictive. Some troops believe the rules cost American lives and force them to give up the advantage of overwhelming firepower to a foe who shoots and melts back into the civilian […]
http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/is-a-military-strike-on-iran-imminent-the-g8-thinks-israel-will-do-it/#more-2897 Is a military strike on Iran imminent? The G8 thinks Israel will do it Silvio Berlusconi, prime minister of Italy, is an unconventional politician and he is difficult to predict. But even Berlusconi is surely too well versed in the customs of international diplomacy to make predictions about Israel attacking Iran without very good […]
IT WAS ALWAYS A JIHAD….NEVER ABOUT BORDERS…..AMD BEN GURION AND THE EARLY SOCIALIST UTOPIANS DID NOT UNDERSTAND THIS…..READ “THE LEGACY OF ISLAMIC ANTI-SEMITISM” BY ANDREW BOSTOM…THE DEFINITIVE ON THE SUBJECT!!….RSK http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/israeli-policy-in-the-age-of-islamism/ Pajamas Media – http://pajamasmedia.com – Click here to print. Israeli Policy in the Age of Islamism Posted By Larry Hall It is a short […]
J. Christian Adams: You Deserve To Know — Unequal Law Enforcement Reigns at Obama’s DOJ (PJM Exclusive) http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/j-christian-adams-you-deserve-to-know-%e2%80%94-unequal-law-enforcement-reigns-at-obamas-doj-pjm-exclusive/?print=1 Posted By J. Christian Adams Soon after his confirmation, Attorney General Eric Holder labeled us a nation of cowards, a people supposedly unwilling or afraid to discuss race. Based on my experience as an attorney at the […]
By FOUAD AJAMI There is a mismatch between the general’s Afghan mission and the president’s summons to his countrymen. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703615104575328691752054592.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion The chroniclers tell us that Lyndon Johnson never took to the Vietnam War. He prosecuted it, it became his war, but it was, in LBJ’s language, a “bitch of a war.” He fought it with […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703615104575328953766272336.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond Why Lift the Travel Ban to Cuba Now? Waves of Canadian, European and Latin American visitors haven’t changed a thing. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Honduran Supreme Court’s decision to order the arrest of Manuel Zelaya, a power-hungry Hugo Chávez acolyte who tried to remain president for life. […]
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?q=MDFjYjljYThkMmQ2ZGY5Yjg1MDllYjQ1YzU1OGY4MDc= A Moving Sidewalk for Terrorists Muslim extremists have penetrated our southern border. While Americans march against Arizona’s new restrictions on unlawful immigration, hundreds of illegal aliens from countries awash in Muslim terrorists tiptoe across the U.S.-Mexican frontier. According to the federal Enforcement Integrated Database, among the deportable aliens apprehended along that border from FY 2009 through […]
West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd dead at 92 By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer Andrew Taylor, Associated Press Writer – 33 mins ago WASHINGTON – Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a fiery orator versed in the classics and a hard-charging power broker who steered billions of federal dollars to the state of his Depression-era upbringing, died […]
