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January 2010

DIANA WEST: DEBATING THE SURGE

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1201/Debating-the-Surge.aspx Over at Powerline, Paul Mirengoff takes note of my three-column series examining the afternath of the “surge” in Iraq. The series argues that the surge was not, contrary to the conventional wisdom from Right to Obama, a “success” that the US should repeat in Afghanistan namely because US-liberated, -protected, -supported -mentored and hallowed-by-American-blood Iraq […]

WE COULD LEARN FROM THE ISRAELIS IF WE DARED TO…

http://www.torontosun.com/news/columnists/peter_worthington/2010/01/05/12349711-sun.html Bring Israeli security to our airports By PETER WORTHINGTON With air travel a mess after the Christmas Day underwear-bomber incident, it’s time to rethink airport security. Instead of the present system of patting down everyone, removing shoes (next, will passengers have to remove underwear?), one carry-on bag, no toilet visits in the last hour […]

HILLARY CLINTON SOOTHES THE MULLAHS

Commentary » Blog Archive » Hillary Clinton Delivers New Year’s Assurances for the Mullahs http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/210721 Hillary Clinton Delivers New Year’s Assurances for the Mullahs Jennifer Rubin, Commentary Magazine.com Hillary Clinton emerges from her long absence to deliver this blather on Iran: Now, we’ve avoided using the term “deadline” ourselves. That’s not a term that we […]

RAYMOND IBRAHIM: TAQIYYA ALTERS ISLAM’S RULES OF WAR

How Taqiyya Alters Islam’s Rules of War by Raymond Ibrahim Middle East Quarterly Winter 2010 http://www.meforum.org/2538/taqiyya-islam-rules-of-war Islam must seem a paradoxical religion to non-Muslims. On the one hand, it is constantly being portrayed as the religion of peace; on the other, its adherents are responsible for the majority of terror attacks around the world. Apologists […]

THE MEDIA DOWNPLAYS THE FACT THAT THE CIA KILLER WAS A PALARAB

From The Times January 6, 2010 Jordanian suicide bomber who killed CIA agents ‘was triple agent’ Al-Balawi practised medicine at this UN clinic in the Hittin Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan Rana Sabbagh-Gargourin in Amman The Jordanian suicide bomber who killed several CIA agents in Afghanistan last week fooled Amman’s intelligence agency into believing that […]