9/11

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by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner The synchronized attacks in Mumbai, by their targeting and timing, designed both to do the maximum amount of damage and to be iconic in nature, frame the recent assassination of a Karzai brother, the shake-up in American command, announced pullbacks, quite understandable curtailing of US aid to Pakistan, and …

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Al Qaeda’s Zawahiri, Bigger Threat Than Osama?

by Raymond Ibrahim Bloomberg Now that Ayman Zawahiri has assumed leadership of al Qaeda, it is important to end the widespread perception that he is a dour intellectual who is disconnected from young, would-be jihadists. Share This

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Obama’s Libya Venture and Double Standards

by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine The champion of shameless chutzpah has always been the guy who murders his parents then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he’s an orphan. Share This

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Appeasing Jihadists

A policy of guilt and flattery will not temper terrorists. by Bruce S. Thornton Defining Ideas In 1937, the London Times editor Geoffrey Dawson wrote to his correspondent in Geneva, “I do my best, night after night, to keep out of the paper anything that might hurt [German] susceptibilities . . . . I have always been …

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Tough Times for Radical Islam

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Osama bin Laden is dead. The Middle East is in chaos. And radical Islam is floundering Share This

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Imprecise Language Breeds Dangerous Policy

by Bruce S. Thornton Advancing a Free Society In his classic essay “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell identified a “lack of precision” as the besetting sin of politicized writing, either through incompetence or indifference as to whether “words mean anything or not.” Share This

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Rules for Killing Rogues

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services The welcome end of Osama bin Laden at the hands of helicopter-borne American military commandos raises a number of issues. Share This

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Bin Laden Is Dead, But Our Delusions Live On

by Bruce S. Thornton Advancing a Free Society The death of Osama bin Laden has some symbolic value, particularly for the United States. A great power exercises influence not just through its military and economic assets, but through its prestige. Share This

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Bin Laden Fallout

by Victor Davis Hanson NRO’s The Corner I think there will be repercussions from the hit, and most of them will turn out to be good in terms of the War on Terror. Share This

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Libya Is Not Iraq

by Victor Davis Hanson National Review Online The Left is terribly embarrassed about the US intervention in Libya. We have preemptively attacked an Arab Muslim nation that posed little threat to the national-security interests of the United States. Share This

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