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// Eric Margolis in the Toronto Sun has written a great, concise primer for ignorant westerners on a country that most people probably didn’t even know existed until the news media became fascinated with it recently after Fort Hood and the failed Christmas bomb attack (terrorist ties in both cases). Margolis puts Yemen into perspective [...]
// From the western perspective, looking on a map, Afghanistan looks like a discrete political unit, comparable to any other sovereign country like France, Canada, Mexico or Japan. Therefore, westerners often assume that the kinds of social and political institutions present in those other countries can also be built in Afghanistan, with due regard for [...]
// 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 [...]
// Barack Obama has officially made the biggest mistake of his presidency. In his speech at West Point tonight, Obama elucidated his strategy to escalate the Afghan campaign still further by sending in thousands upon thousands more troops, under the guise of bringing an end to the conflict. Rarely has the adage carried more weight: [...]
// 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 [...]
