Amazing that FT gave its imprimatur to this warning: an important piece that Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal published in the Financial Tims today. The one audience of this piece: Obama. [Emphasis Weiss’s] Last week, President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad of Iran wrote…
Today there was a great talk at Harvard’s Belfer Center on the Afghan resistance to the Soviet Union invasion in the 80s. The speaker was the rising Norwegian scholar Thomas Hegghammer. Promo: In the 1980s, thousands of Arabs volunteered to…
I wonder how the pointlessness of the war (Times of London link to the finger-pointing beginning in Israel) fits into Michael Walzer’s just war theory? And what does its pointlessness do for advocates Tom Friedman and Jeffrey Goldberg, who trumpeted…
Here Daniel Pipes senses his own growing irrelevance in the new emphasis (good spot, Pipes) on Obama’s Muslim heritage. Here Pipes digs in his heels as he’s banished: “Like many conservatives, I am dazed that an unknown person with a…
In an MLK speech today in Minneapolis, Colin Powell emphasized Obama’s Muslim roots, when he imagined a living Martin Luther King Jr. being at the Capitol tomorrow “as Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office.” It was reminiscent of…
The Telegraph: European human-rights leaders talk about war crimes. But Arab states are largely unmoved by Gaza’s plight because they fear Islamic militancy in their own states.
Now that Israel’s former close friend Turkey’s P.M. has condemned the Gaza slaughter–“perpetrating inhuman actions which would bring [Israel] to self-destruction”–Daniel Pipes is shocked to discover that he is an Islamist. Just watch, soon Pipes will finally discover the Armenian…
This is really the only argument anyone needs. A realist one. The onslaught is raising Hamas’s Q-rating in Cairo: But in interviews in Cairo with wounded supporters of the Islamist militia, considered a terrorist organization by Israel and the United…
Osama bin Laden’s threatening statement yesterday only reinforces the awareness we all have that an aching grievance undealt-with invites extremist response. Tim McVeigh was executed, yes, but even the federal government understood that he acted in part because of a…