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May: The Qatar ultimatum
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In the war against terrorism, some nations are with us, some are against us and some are both In the aftermath of the terrorist atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001, President George W. Bush drew a line in the sand. “Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make,” he announced. “Either you are…
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May: The battles of Britain and Egypt
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Jihadis aspire to ‘cleanse’ the Islamic world and force the West to submit The slaughter of 22 concert-goers in Manchester May 22 was followed four days later by the murder of 29 Christians traveling by bus to a monastery in the desert south of Cairo. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for both attacks. In an internet…
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May: A mission accomplished in Syria
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President Trump is re-establishing the power of deterrence If you’re still unsure about whether President Trump did the right thing when he launched 59 cruise missiles at Syria’s Shayrat airbase last week, consider the alternative. He knew that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad had yet again used chemical weapons to murder Syrian civilians, women and children…
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May: Defending the civilized world
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Eradicating ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ will require a long war In an inaugural address that was more purposeful than poetic, President Trump last Friday vowed to “unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate from the face of the Earth.” I hope we can agree, across party and ideological lines, that those…
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May: Throwing Israel to the UN’s wolves
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Obama encourages Israel’s enemies, caliphate-builders among them Palestinian Islamic Jihad is, as its name suggests, an organization committed to jihad – against Israel most urgently, though not exclusively. So when the U.N. Security Council on Dec. 23 passed a resolution condemning Israel, PIJ spokesman Dawood Shihab was pleased. He called it a “victory.” He wasn’t wrong.…
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May: How Obama is like Ike
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His dalliance with Iran mirrors Eisenhower’s courtship of Egypt The Islamic Republic of Iran is, according to no less an authority than the U.S. government, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. Its Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, suicide-bombed U.S. Marines in Beirut in 1983. Iranian-backed Shia militias killed hundreds of American troops in Iraq more recently.…
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May: The war against history
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Islamists destroy the past to shape the future “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” This, as you may recall, was the slogan of the totalitarian state imagined by George Orwell in 1984, his classic novel. Today, various groups of Islamists – which we can define as…
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May: The president should not tie his successor’s hands
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It’s not for Obama to decide how the next administration deals with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict You’re probably familiar with the old story about the inebriated guy looking for his wallet at night under a streetlight – not because that’s where he dropped it but because what would be the point of poking around in the dark?…
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Coloradans deliver icons to families of martyred Christians in Egypt
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A delegation from Colorado traveled more than 14,000 miles earlier this month to meet with families of the Egyptian Coptic Christians beheaded last year by militants aligned with ISIS. They made the trip to honor the families’ loss and in hopes of spreading the word about what one calls the “ongoing holocaust of Christianity in the…
