by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPage Magazine
Ostensibly dealing with a building, a recent report demonstrates how Turkey’s populace — once deemed the most secular and liberal in the Muslim world — is reverting to its Islamic heritage, complete with animosity for the infidel West and dreams of Islam’s glory days of jihad and conquest. According to Reuters: Continue reading “Greatest Church Soon To Be Mega Mosque?”
by Victor Davis Hanson
PJ Media
Cologne, Germany
I’m still in Germany, and keep noticing a predictable, but continually interesting, pattern in talking to Germans of all walks of life — tourists, hoteliers, guides, drivers, casual bystanders, or students. When Greece comes up (or rather is brought up by Americans), there is a noticeable tension. Continue reading “The Limits of German Patience”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Who could not despise the tottering Bashar al-Assad dictatorship in Syria?
Continue reading “The Bad/Good Idea of Removing Assad”
by Bruce S. Thornton
FrontPage Magazine
The foreign minister of Spain recently compared the troubled EU to the Titanic, a metaphor not quite so trite given the new research into why the world’s biggest ocean liner collided with an iceberg. Continue reading “The EU Speeds for the Iceberg”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Defining Ideas
Not long ago, The Economist ran an unsigned editorial called the “Auschwitz Complex.” The unnamed author blamed serial Middle East tensions on both Israel’s unwarranted sense of victimhood, accrued from the Holocaust, and its unwillingness to “to give up its empire.” Continue reading “The New Anti-Semitism”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Defining Ideas
Germany’s financial dominance may be worrisome, but is it a threat to European peace? Continue reading “Why NATO Still Matters”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Defining Ideas
Why are the Greeks such whiners? Look to their tragic history and geography. Continue reading “The Sick Man of Europe”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
The more Bashar Assad butchers Syrian dissidents, the more the world community expresses outrage — while it does little to stop the bloodletting. Why? Continue reading “Syrian Ironies”
by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
The European Union and the United Nations, as well as globalization and advanced technology, were supposed to trump age-old cultural, geographical, and national differences and bring people together. Continue reading “History Never Quite Ends”
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online
In the past 40 years, the United States has intervened to go after autocrats in Afghanistan, Grenada, Haiti, Iraq, Libya, Panama, Somalia, and Serbia. We have attacked by air, by land, and by a combination of both. Continue reading “Taking Out Dictators”