Archive for the 'Middle East' Category

Freedonia vs. Sylvania — is this a re-run?

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

In full accord on the perceived “global threat” (The AP reports), “world leaders” Tuesday endorsed President Barack Obama’s call to secure all nuclear materials around the globe within four years to keep them out of the grasp of terrorists. They offered few specifics for achieving that goal. But as 47 nations including Armenia, Morocco, Thailand, […]

Fire Napolitano, give us some ‘change’

Friday, January 1st, 2010

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan had announced his sympathy for jihadi terrorism to many of his co-workers. He sought contact with a radical Muslim cleric. Yet so crippled by “political correctness” are today’s American armed forces that no one blew the whistle on this burning fuse. Instead, he won promotion in today’s army and was sent […]

Obama chooses his Vietnam

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

Peace on earth, good will toward men. Fine sentiments. But as citizens of a republic, can we really assume we’ll be held forever blameless for the actions of our government? Barack Obama, who if he were not in office would be applying for a Community Development Block Grant to stage anti-war rallies in Chicago, just […]

‘The aggressor state’

Sunday, January 18th, 2009

More than 700 and perhaps as many as 1300 years ago — back when the peace-loving Muslims were trying to conquer Europe by the sword (till they were stopped at Tours by Charles Martel) — the ancestors of the people who became the Aztecs passed through what is now Utah and Arizona, on their way […]

Define ‘aggression’

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Over the weekend, Israeli troops and tanks invaded Gaza, the coastal strip of land south of their country which is inhabited almost entirely by Muslim Arabs, speaking the same colloquial Arabic as the Egyptian residents of the Sinai. From the tone of some of the news coverage, one might get the impression Israeli generals and […]