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June 17, 2008 UN Buddies Up With Terror-Linked Islamic Charity ‘” Again It sounds like the ultimate Dog-Bites-Man story – ho hum, there’s the UN climbing into bed with yet another terror-linked outfit. Does it really matter? You b... June 17, 2008 Re: Paging Andy McCarthy I am traveling to D.C. today, having spent my morning responding to Barack Obama’s remarkable views urging a return to heavy reliance on the criminal justice system as a counterterror... June 16, 2008 Kmiec on Obama on Abortion — Say What? “Not to understand that there is more than one rather indirect and elusive judicial way to address an intrinsic evil understates the ingenuity of the devout.” Not to un... June 16, 2008 TAI: Hezbollah’s Dangerous Gamble Introduction This past May saw Hezbollah's second coup attempt in as many years. The first was after the 2006 war, when Hezbollah took to the streets with the goal of bringing... June 16, 2008 GAG … If this gem from the Minnesota Star Tribune doesn’t make you ill, nothing will. It’s from a typical media account about how difficult it is for devout Muslims to endure th... June 16, 2008 A Way Forward After Last Week’s Supreme Court Ruling on Enemy Combatants While lots more gnashing of teeth is called for, I think it’s extremely important that we push ahead with concrete, practical steps to prevent what could be disastrous fallout from th... June 15, 2008 Maliki’s Moment The Washington Post notes in an editorial that Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki has had the courage to stand up to Iran and emphasize his desire for a long-strategic partnership with the U.S.... June 13, 2008 Sadr’s Special Groups In the past month, Iraqi and coalition forces have succeeded in their fight against the Mahdi Army's "special groups." On May 3, the U.S. military destroyed a special groups command center i... June 12, 2008 A Courtroom, er, Battlefield We Can Win On An old government friend emails with a practical response to the Supreme Court: Let’s free all Gitmo detainees…on a vast, deserted, open and... June 12, 2008 5 to 4 I was going out the door this morning when I learned about the Supreme Court ruling — that the American people had lost to radical Islam, 5 to 4. I was on my way to Shea Stadium.&n... June 12, 2008 In the UN’ s Cash-for-Kim Scandal, Who Got Punished? In the UNDP welter (see post below) of botched and missing records, violations of the UN’s own rules, derelictions of duty, aid, comfort and dual-use procurement for a murderous totalitaria... June 12, 2008 Medal of Freedom to … Donna Shalala I have no great brief against Donna Shalala, Sec’y of HHS in the Clinton administration, but a Medal of Freedom? [Power Line has the story, as does Winfield Myers, who does carr... June 12, 2008 Blankley on Kurtz on De Zutter on Obama Tony Blankley wonders why the mainstream press is ignoring the serious questions about Obama and the radical Left raised by Stanley’s important NRO article from June 2. Blankley... June 12, 2008 Blunt Message for McCain from WSJ A great editorial from the Wall Street Journal this morning on the insanity of legal restrictions on energy exploration and production while prices soar. For the Arizona Senator who s... June 11, 2008 So Who Replaces Jim Johnson? Suggestions? Sandy Berger may be available …... June 11, 2008 “Mosquito-infested Bog”? But Rich, he says it’s just like the Grand Canyon!... June 10, 2008 Re: Anatomy of an Obama Hit Job Remarkable, isn’t it, that someone so concerned about our image in the “international community,” so offended by Bush’s purported cowboy insensitivity, can get so sp... June 9, 2008 Hate To Break This To You: Moderate Isn’t Mainstream and Extremist Isn’t Radical Hard to decide what is more maddening in stories like these — the fact that there are ALWAYS stories like these, or the media’s stubborn refusal to come to grips with the evidence of... June 8, 2008 Shades of Steyn! Our Friends the Pakistanis Threaten — er, I Mean, Request the EU to End Free Expr From the Daily Times of Pakistan [h/t: Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch]: Pakistan to ask EU to amend laws on freedom of expression... June 8, 2008 “A Systematic Refusal To View Our Enemies Plain” I know Cliff has already mentioned this, but what a wonderful, compelling piece by Michael Ledeen in the Wall Street Journal yesterday. Required reading.... June 7, 2008 Obama’s Veep Selection Committee At Pajamas Media, Jen Rubin revisits Obama selectee Eric Holder’s shoddy role in the Clinton pardons, particularly Marc Rich, and how roundly it was condemned by top Dems and the medi... June 7, 2008 Re: 1976 Redux? With one encouraging exception, Rich. This time, in October, if the Republican announces at a debate that Poland is “independent and autonomous” from the Soviet Union, it... June 7, 2008 On Messianic Mass Movements Our friend Michael Ledeen is well know thanks to many achievements and more than a few controversies. But above all he is a scholar who has spent many decades studying fascism in all its fo... June 6, 2008 Before Becoming a Martyr, Khalid Sheik Mohammed Wants to Represent Himself at His Commission Trial ... and I think he's providing a useful example of why we shouldn't try enemy combatants in the civilian courts, as explained in this afternoon's article, here.... June 6, 2008 Tooting … Sorry, Jonah. I thought about, um, “blow my own horn” but that didn’t sound a whole lot better. Back to the drawing board …... June 6, 2008 More NRO, News Central K-Lo, not that I would ever toot my own flute, but that Times article goes on to say: Mr. McCain had previously stopped short of endorsing the view that M... June 6, 2008 What If Today’s Media Were Reporting on June 6, 1944? Roger Kimball thinks their D-Day headline would look something like this: Breaking news! US Army pinned down in bungled assault. Huge civilian casualties.... June 6, 2008 9/11 Plotters Are Arraigned Unable to start a single trial in seven fitful years, much less complete one, President Bush’s troubled military commissions may be lumbering... June 5, 2008 Re: Change We Can Believe In I’m loving Byron’s posts about Obama’s choice of Jim Johnson for the Veep Committee — I hadn’t connected those dots. Dick Morris, meanwhile, is apparentl... June 5, 2008 Prison Is So Confining for Terrorists A few weekends ago, our friend Peter Robinson and I had an exchange on the Corner about why it is so difficult to prevent prison inmates from continuing their criminal activities from behin... June 5, 2008 Yeah, and You Would Have Done … What? Congressional Quarterly provides this excerpt from Obama’s AIPAC speech: We knew, in 2002, that Iran supported terrorism. We knew Iran had an ill... June 5, 2008 Who Says We Can’t Find Common Ground with al Qaeda? At his arraignment today, upon being advised by the military court of the possibility that he could be executed if convicted, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the jihadist savage who orchestrated the... June 4, 2008 Eric Holder on Obama’s Veep Search Committee So Sen. Obama, who is trying to distance himself from the Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, has named to his Vice Presidential Search Committee Eric Holder &he... June 4, 2008 How to Measure al Qaeda’s Defeat In an article published in the Washington Post on Friday May 30, CIA D... June 3, 2008 Perfect: While We Meet with Iran the Brits Are Having al Qaeda Meet with a Shrink There is a spot on the Obama team for Jacqui Smith (who appears to have been reading too much Bill Ayers). From the Daily Mail: Home Secretary Jacqui Smit... June 3, 2008 Re: Iraq Again Rich and Victor, I wonder what you think of this. I’ve just read David Horowitz and Ben Johnson’s interesting new book, Party of Defeat. They incline more to VDH&rsq... June 2, 2008 McCain & FISA: Significant Developments and Opportunities I’m grateful to McCain spokesman Doug Holtz-Eakin for his thoughtful answer to the questions on surveillance reform I posted last week. I’ve responded in an article on the ho... June 2, 2008 Approaches to America’s Energy Crisis Skyrocketing oil prices ensure that it is no longer novel to say that America faces an energy crisis. While the economic consequences of our oil dependence are the most obvious,... June 1, 2008 The Nasrallah Speech: Hezbollah Ruled, the West is Fooled In the next days a major battle in the War of Ideas will be unfolding worldwide and particularly through the international media. We are now witnessing a massive campaign by Hezbollah's stra... May 31, 2008 Re: You Know They Hate Bush When a Perfectly Good Conservatives-Are-Bad Storyline Is Killed Has there ever been a more lame-o RINO that Scott McClellan? I've got a great idea: Why don't the Lakers and Celtics just join together on a lay-up line? I mean, I know some people thin... May 31, 2008 Couldn’t Have Said It Better Myself Back in August of last year I wrote: A shift in strategy initiated by the new U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, is changing ideas about both al Qaeda... May 30, 2008 California Bound I’m off for a flight to LA. Should be a great weekend for Willful Blindness in California. I’ll be talking with Hugh Hewitt (taped interview, I think) tomorrow morning and... May 29, 2008 Re: Re: The War on Terror Offends Muslims Please excuse me while I wipe the stuff pouring out of my nose. At Jihad Watch, Robert Spencer reports on the wisdom of DHS’s Charles Allen and his objection to the phrase “W... May 29, 2008 Re: Immunity Dispute Not so fast. It is reassuring to read that senior McCain adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin apparently disavows at least some of the remarks reported by the Washington Post to have been made by attorney Ch... May 29, 2008 You Must Remember This The Siege of Constantinople There’s an anniversary this week we might do well to recall. On May 29, 1453 – just 555 short years ago -- troops led by Mehmed II broke through the walls of the ancient Christian capital of Constantinople. Mehmed the Conqueror – as he would be known from that day forward -- rode triumphantly into the city on a white horse. Soon, churches would be converted into mosques. Constantinople would become Istanbul. “For the West this was a dark moment,” writes historian Efraim Karsh in his masterful book, Islamic Imperialism. “For Islam it was a cause for celebration. For nearly a millennium Constantinople had been the foremost barrier – physically and ideologically – to Islam’s sustained drive for world conquest and the object of desire of numerous Muslim rulers.” Mehmed cast himself as not just as a master builder of the Ottoman Empire, but also as the caliph – the supreme spiritual and temporal ruler of all the world’s Muslims, chosen to “act as Allah’s Sword ‘blazing forth the way of Islam from the East to West.’” He would go on to conquer Greece, Serbia, the Balkans south of the Danube and the Crimean peninsula. His grandson and great grandson would extend the caliphate to include the Levant, Egypt, the Arabian Hijaz including the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, Iraq, North Africa, and most of Hungary. The desire to conquer the world – or even just one’s neighbors -- is hardly an Islamic invention. Genghis Khan is not a name: It’s a title. It means “universal ruler.” The man history knows as Genghis Khan believed it was his divinely ordained mission to lead the Mongols to global domination. And he loved his work. “Man's highest joy is victory: to conquer his enemies,” he said, “to pursue them; to deprive them of their possessions; to make their beloved weep; to ride on their horses; and to embrace their wives and daughters.” May 28, 2008 Re: In (Partial) Defense of McClellan Ramesh, I don't see how McClellan's unimpressiveness is mitigated by the difficulty of the job. Being third-baseman for the Mets is a difficult job. But I've still seen lots and lo... May 28, 2008 Remember When McClellan Saluted All those Nice “Business Professionals” Down at Hamas? I do.... May 20, 2008 The High Cost of Oil Dependence With the price of oil over $125 a barrel and U.S. gasoline prices hovering around $4 a gallon, our nation’s energy dependence has been a top news headline. Although the economic effect of t... May 18, 2008 The Next Battlefield: Ceuta and Melilla? Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaida's No.2, makes a point to regularly mention in his broadcasts the Muslim lands that need to be "liberated." The list includes the usual suspects for every r... May 8, 2008 Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb: An Evolving Challenge in the War on Terror Last Thursday an airstrike on the Somali town of Dhusamareb, 300 miles north of Mogadishu (see W. Thomas Smith, Jr.'s report in Human Events), dispatched Adan Hashi ‘Ayro, the commander of al-Shabaab ("the youth"), the terrorist organization spearheading the bloody Islamist insurgency in the Horn of Africa, and several of his cohorts to the custody of the nineteen angels stoking the stone-fueled fires of hell (Qur'an 74:30, 66:6). The territory of the onetime Somali Democratic Republic is, however, only one front in the war on terror's African theater. Another is the vast expanse of the Sahara Desert and the Sahel, areas which are likely to play an increasingly significant role in the overall struggle against extremism.

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