Michelle Malkin’s ‘Inconvenient Question’ on the Mt. Vernon Statement
As Michelle Malkin points out, the Mount Vernon Statement lays out broad principles for “constitutional conservatism,” and is an elegant tribute to limited government and the Founding Fathers. The document carries the signatures of movement leaders, Beltway heavyweights, and veteran activists, however, the views of two of its most prominent backers -: the American Conservative [...]
Participation in an endless war against U.S. results in endless detention when captured
Apparently a DoJ taskforce has reached the same conclusion as the Bush administration on how to deal with unlawful combatants in a time of war - and now they’ve publicly admitted it.
As Ed Morrissey notes at the link, if the detainees were stupid enough to join an endless jihad against the US, that’s their problem, [...]
A presidential pledge broken, thank goodness
Today marks the one-year anniversary of President Obama’s promise to close the Gitmo detention facility within one year. This is the one broken Obama promise for which we should be gratetul.
Unfortunately, the warped thinking that stands behind the promise remains almost fully intact, as Bill Otis explains:
The obsession with closing Gitmo [...]
Moderate Muslim Leaders Take a Stand
With the New Year, enhanced fears of, and challenges to, the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban, al-Qaeda, other local jihadists, and their allies among violent Muslim fundamentalists, have become visible across the Indian subcontinent. Intra-Muslim tension inside India, between moderate Barelvi-Sunni Muslims and the radical Deobandi sect, emerged on the weekend of January 3, at a [...]
Once a jihadist. . .
It appears that the suicide bomber of our CIA post in Afghanistan was a trusted CIA informant who had been recruited to infiltrate senior al-Qaeda circles. Although he had a track record as a supporter of jihad, he had gained the trust of his CIA handlers (as well as the Jordanians with whom [...]
Laps in security
Andrew McCarthy draws on his experience as prosecutor of the Blind Sheikh in the first World Trade Center bombing to show history repeating itself in the case of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab:
In Willful Blindness, I recount the debacle of repeated entries into the United States by, among others, the Blind Sheikh (Omar Abdel Rahman) and [...]
