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// The recent failed bombing attempt by an agent of Al Qaeda has predictably resurrected the old profiling debate. The thrust of the conservative position on this issue has typically been that we should not worry about people’s feelings when people’s lives are at stake. The liberals, meanwhile, typically say that profiling violates people’s civil [...]
// As if on cue, hours after Obama announced his big master plan for Afghanistan, a suicide bombing in Somalia was committed by the violent Islamist group Al Shabaab (which means “the youth” in Arabic), a group affiliated with none other than Al Qaeda. Few countries on this planet share a modicum of the backwardness [...]
// In the wake of the Fort Hood tragedy, some controversy has developed over whether or not Nidal Malik Hasan is a “Muslim Terrorist” or “just a terrorist” or “a criminal” or what. Many on the left, ensconced in political correctness, are hesitant to call him a Muslim, much less a Muslim terrorist, out of [...]
// If Obama sends more troops to Afghanistan, it will be the worst mistake of his presidency. The reason for this is quite simple: the United States is on a suicide mission in Afghanistan. Since, as I have said, the American leadership does not adequately understand the nature or character of Afghan society (such as [...]
