Let’s call the whole thing off
We learn from yesterday’s New York Times column by historian Efraim Karsh that the Islamic Solidarity Games — the Olympics of the Muslim world — were to be held in Iran in April, but have been called off by the Arab states. Karsh links to this BBC story regarding the cancellation.
The reason [...]
Jim Leach’s tension
While the National Endowment for the Arts has attracted attention as a propaganda arm of the Obama administration, the National Endowment for the Humanities has so far escaped such attention. The new chairman of the NEH is Republican former Rep. Jim Leach. Leach supported Obama during the campaign and must have had dreams [...]
Obama appoints his envoy to OIC - Arab News
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Obama appoints his envoy to OICArab NewsJEDDAH: US President Barack Obama has appointed Rashad Hussain to serve as his special envoy to the Jeddah-based Organization of the Islamic Conference …President Obama appoints special envoy to Muslim world - A step to increase …Examiner.comObama appoints Indian-origin lawyer as US Envoy to OICEconomic TimesObama names new [...]
What constitutes a successful surge?
Diana West has written a series of columns arguing that the surge in Iraq was a failure. The issue is more than an academic one because, as Diana notes, many of the arguments in favor of surging in Afghanistan start from the premise that the Iraq surge was successful.
Not so, [...]
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 [...]
Bipartisan Senate Letter Rebukes Turkish Goverment
A letter from 10 senators, led by Senators Nelson and Collins and ranging from Senator Feingold to Senator Inohfe, sharply rebukes the Turkish government for the “downward trend of relations between Turkey and Israel this past year.” The senators point in particular to the Turkish government’s exclusion of Israel from a recent NATO exercise, prompting [...]
