War on Terror
Among the many topics that I regret having had insufficient time in my schedule to address appropriately is torture (and I’m not claiming this post to constitute all that I’d like to say about it). Frankly, I’ve been torn, and I view with suspicion anybody who believes that the debate, as it’s been cast, is…
Tony Blankley makes a chilling observation: News item No. 1 concerns the testimony of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on April 22. She said deteriorating security in nuclear-armed Pakistan “poses a mortal threat to the security and safety of our country and the world.” News item No. 2 is…
Instapundit does us another public service by highlighting this Pajamas TV commentary about Jon Stewart claiming Truman was a war criminal: Jon Stewart, War Criminals & The True Story of the Atomic Bombs. As one of my friends wrote me after listening to it: “We were moved nearly to tears by this. What has happened…
This sort of statement from folks inside the administration certainly will not help the situation in Iraq: “We are not even talking about” changing the withdrawal plan, an administration official told McClatchy Newspapers. “The situation would have to get a lot worse for that to change.” The recent upsurge in violence hasn’t triggered a return…
As Marc said, quite the name and concept for Senator Whitehouse’s proposed commission. Can a “Truth Czar” be far behind? Look, it is certainly possible that stuff went on beyond the borderline silliness intitially reported to have occurred at Abu Graib. And without a doubt, the idea of rendering prisoners to another country for torture…
Some of the things on which President Bush stood firm made even folks as far to the right as me wary, particularly when it came to “enhanced interrogation” methods. Not believing the insanely bloodthirsty image that his detractors painted of him (and for which they ought to be even more extremely embarrassed after the smooth…
Mark Patinkin’s reasonable on the Israel-Palestine conflict: These were not rogue militants acting on their own. Gaza is now controlled by the extremist Hamas government. The missile firings were allowed, even encouraged, from on high. At last, on Dec. 27, Israel launched a counterattack to stop the rockets. Much of the coverage outside the United…
Both the remark and the reporter’s presentation are worthy of note in this recent New York Times piece on Israel’s movement of ground troops into Gaza: Another woman found only half of the body of her 17-year-old daughter in the Shifa morgue. “May God exterminate Hamas!” she screamed, in a curse rarely heard these days.…
I have to believe that the day will come when society at large will share my disgust with such phrasings as Owen M. Sullivan’s and be astonished that anybody would commit them to print, much less seek to publish them in major newspapers: The Israeli attack on the Gaza Ghetto, much like the Nazi attack…
Partisans may attempt to yoke each successive American administration with part of the blame, but it’s achingly frustrating to note the repetitive nature of events and rhetoric in the Middle East. Jeff Jacoby enunciates the lesson that the West never wants to learn about terrorism: The hard truth is that no matter how much Israelis…