Soccer Dad on Jan 30 2009 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Middle East, The War on Terror
I don’t have many arguments with Roger Cohen’s latest column, After the War on Terror. He’s correct that the President’s interview on Al Arabiya marks the end of the war on terror; that words are important and that President Obama is a lot closer to Cohen own “Israel is wrong” belief than President Bush was. [...]
Soccer Dad on Dec 17 2008 | Filed under: The War on Terror
Fouad Ajami expressed his regret that President Bush is leaving office.
One thing is sure to go with Mr. Bush when he departs to Crawford, Texas: his “diplomacy of freedom.” That diplomacy — which propelled the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which drove the Syrians out of Lebanon after they had all but destroyed the sovereignty [...]
Joshua Pundit on Nov 21 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, The War on Terror
Iran reportedly now has enough enriched uranium to manufacture it’s first nuclear bomb.
That estimate comes from nuclear experts who’ve been extrapolating data from the latest IAEA report. Given the feckless nature of the IAEA and the fact that they’re not alowed to see everything, Iran is likely much further along than that. Considering the missiles [...]
Debbie Hamilton at Right Truth on Nov 19 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, The War on Terror
Pirates are terrorists, no other way to describe them. Their general operating procedure is to seize a ship, hold the crew as hostages, and demand large sums of money for the crew’s safety.
Today the pirates/hijackers/terrorists demand $10 million for the Saudi super tanker (See Daily Mail.online article, amazing images)
Two months ago Somalia [...]
Joshua Pundit on Nov 17 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, Iraq, Media Watch, The War on Terror
Iraq’s cabinet approved to so-called status of forces agreement today, after Iraqi PM al-Maliki and Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric, the Ayatollah Sistani, signed on to it. This gives the new pact a pretty good chance of passing the Iraqi parliament.
The main difference in the new draft text was a written-in-stone date for a complete [...]
Debbie Hamilton at Right Truth on Nov 11 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Feature Article, Iran, The War on Terror
I’ve heard people say Iran is no threat to the United States, that they don’t have the capability to deliver missiles from Iran to the U.S. Maybe not, but they don’t need to have that capability to harm Americans. Iran is using our Southern neighbors as an open door to the U.S. [...]
Debbie Hamilton at Right Truth on Nov 10 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, The War on Terror
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Business Secretary Lord Mandelson went to Saudi Arabia last week and asked Saudi Arabia to bail out the West by pumping billions into the International Monetary Fund. Melanie Phillips says, ” .. this loan comes with a devastating IOU — nothing less than a big slice of control over Britain [...]
Joshua Pundit on Oct 31 2008 | Filed under: Election 2008, Feature Article, Iran, The War on Terror
While we’re involved in the dog and pony show our election has become, the mullahs are not sleeping.They’re enlarging their naval bases on Strait of Hormuz, the narrow neck of water that controls the Persian Gulf’s oil supply:
Iran has begun building a line of naval bases along its southern coast and up to the Strait [...]
Joshua Pundit on Oct 27 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, The War on Terror
You’ll remember the Holy Land Foundation case,which highlighted how money was collected here in America for ‘Islamic charities’ and actually used to fund jihad and terrorism with the full knowledge of the charity’s organizers.
The Holy Land Foundation was essentially a fund raising and money laundering outfit for the Salafist Muslim Brotherhood, the parent organization of [...]
Terry Trippany on Oct 24 2008 | Filed under: Feature Article, The War on Terror
It looks like the terrorists have made a strategic blunder by killing 25 innocent locals, some by beheading.
There have been large demonstrations in Laghman, eastern Afghanistan, against the killing of a group of local men who were pulled from buses by the Taleban.
Around 27 young men are thought to have died in the incident, which [...]
