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. Continue reading “Bin Laden Is Dead, But Our Delusions Live On”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Hudson New York
From Congressman Keith Ellison’s emotional breakdown to CongresswomanJackie Speier’s accusations of “racism,” the hearings on Muslim radicalization have made it clear that those who oppose the hearings have little of substance to offer. Continue reading “Weeping and Other Hysterics: Have Muslim Apologists Nothing More to Offer?”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
The dubious received wisdom rationalizing our current intervention in Libya was crystallized in Senator John Kerry’s recent essay for The Wall Street Journal. For Kerry, the rebels in Libya are the same as those in Egypt, “peacefully demanding freedom and dignity.” Continue reading “The Secularist Delusion”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The prognosis for Libya might be better if our president cared more about it than about the NCAA. Continue reading “Our Libyan March Madness”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
The current military intervention in Libya by the West has been marketed with the claim that its purpose, as French President Sarkozy put it, is “to protect the civilian population from the murderous madness of a regime that has forfeited all claim to legitimacy.” Behind this humanitarian idealism, however, lurk a host of questions and dangers, reflecting wishful thinking rather than a prudent foreign policy. Continue reading “Foreign Policy as Wishful Thinking”
by Raymond Ibrahim
National Review Online
As with Egypt, American sympathies instinctively side with Libya’s oppositional forces as they seek to overthrow the tyrant Qaddafi — and rightfully so. But where US foreign policy is concerned, prudence is in order. Continue reading “Libya, What To Do?”
by Raymond Ibrahim
Hudson New York
You can sit here and talk about jihad from here to doomsday, what will it do? Suppose you prove beyond any shadow of doubt that Islam is constitutionally violent, where do you go from there? Continue reading “Caliphate, Jihad, Sharia: Now What?”
by Bruce S. Thornton
Advancing a Free Society
The fall of Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak has occasioned all manner of democracy happy-talk in the West. Continue reading “Not a Time for Wishful Thinking about Egypt”
by Raymond Ibrahim
PJ Media
With Egypt’s “July Revolution” of 1952, for the first time in millennia, Egyptians were able to boast that a native-born Egyptian, Gamal Abdel Nasser, would govern their nation: Ever since the overthrow of its last native pharaoh nearly 2,500 years ago, Egypt had been ruled by a host of foreign invaders — Persians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Turks, and Brits, to name a few. Continue reading “Egypt’s Identity Crisis”
by Raymond Ibrahim
NRO’s The Corner
It is clear that the media and its host of analysts are split in two camps on the Egyptian revolution: one that sees it as a wonderful expression of “people-power” that, left alone, will naturally culminate into some sort of pluralistic democracy, and another that sees only the Muslim Brotherhood, in other words, that sees only bad coming from the revolution. Continue reading “Why the Egyptian Revolution Can Be the Best or Worst Thing to Happen”