by Raymond Ibrahim
Private Papers
Full of the same old complaints, threats of retaliation, and victim status role that have become mainstays of al Qaeda propaganda, Osama bin Laden’s latest release would seem to offer nothing new. Continue reading “An Encouraging Revelation: Bin Laden’s Latest Message in Context”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
Washington is an echo chamber. One pundit, one senator, one reporter proclaim a snazzy “truth” and almost immediately it reverberates as gospel. Conventional wisdom about Iraq is rarely questioned. A notion seems to find validity not on its logic or through empirical evidence, but simply by the degree to which it is repeated and felt to resonate. Continue reading “Conventionally Ignorant”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
Christopher Hitchens has a good piece on the bad CIA (“worse than useless”). Surely our various intelligence organizations are practicing a sort of subversion, whether due to a condescending animus toward George Bush, or to a more generic arrogance that their genius is not appreciated and so they leak and back stab against their betters to ensure someone out there knows just how brilliant they really are. Continue reading “Three-Letter Menace”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Here we go again. Thousands of Sudanese Muslims took to the street last week to threaten death to a British schoolteacher in Khartoum. Continue reading “Of Teddy Bears and Cartoons”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Private Papers
Many in the West are congratulating Pope Benedict XVI’s recent trip to Turkey, where in the Blue Mosque he prayed facing Mecca and made other gestures meant to salve the wounds raised by his references to Islam’s history of violence. Continue reading “Holy Wisdom”
by Victor Davis Hanson
NRO’s The Corner
The latest news from Iran about the supposed abandonment in 2003 of the effort to produce a Bomb — if even remotely accurate — presents somewhat of a dilemma for liberal Democrats. Continue reading “Revisionism and the Iranian Non-Bomb”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
In the last few years, it has become popular to say that history is determined largely by sweeping inanimate forces of technology, the environment, gender, class or race. We play down the role of individuals — as if the notion that one person can shape history is old-fashioned. But that’s hardly the case. Continue reading “A Few Good People”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
We can learn a lot about ourselves from the looking glass of Iraq. Continue reading “The Looking-Glass War in Iraq”
by Bruce S. Thornton
City Journal
On November 18, the New York Times ran a full-page ad entitled “A Christian Response to A Common Word Between Us and You.” Continue reading “Epistle to the Muslims”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
More than seven months ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., claimed that Iraq was “lost.” Continue reading “Soft Neocons”