middle east
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May: French fried peace process
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The French government last week initiated a new “peace process.” Ignoring the butchery underway in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen, as well as the threat Iran now poses to the Middle East, their focus is the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The French initiative could turn out to be a waste of time, one more round of diplomatic…
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May: How much ruin is there in a nation?
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To fix what’s broken in America requires some knowledge of what has worked in the past People think early European immigrants to America were seeking religious freedom. In fact, they sought escape from religious persecution. Not quite the same thing. The policy not to molest or hinder those practicing even what were seen as false…
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May: Can America change course?
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The next president needs a new approach to national security. That may be easier said than done. As you watch the circus that is the 2016 presidential campaign, which candidate strikes you as having a coherent vision of national security for the post-Obama era? Who has told you what he (or she) will do about…
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May: The search for elusive Iranian moderates
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They won’t be found among the ruling clerical elite Ruhollah Khomeini was a man of religious faith and revolutionary fervor, committed to waging jihad until, in his words, “the writ of Islam is obeyed in every country in the world.” But when he took power in Iran in 1979, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N,…
