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May: Tracking freedom’s enemies
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A new State Department report confirms most people are denied basic human rights If I were to ask an intelligent person like you what happened in the 20th century, or the 19th or the 18th, you could probably sum up the most significant developments. But if I asked you what is happening in the 21st…
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FACT CHECK: Trump gets his Mideast history wrong
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EDITOR’S NOTE _ A look at the veracity of claims by political figures. In trying to outline how he would defeat the threat, Trump himself launched several other false claims. He said Clinton and Obama sought to install a democracy in Libya and pushed for immediate change in leadership in Syria, accusing the pair of embarking on…
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In reversal, Trump says IS claim about Obama was sarcastic
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After days of alleging repeatedly that President Barack Obama literally founded the Islamic State group, Donald Trump abruptly shifted tone on Friday and insisted his widely debunked claim had been sarcastic. Trump, in an early-morning post on Twitter, blamed CNN for reporting “so seriously” that he had called Obama and Democrat Hillary Clinton the extremist…
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Trump refuses to back away from false claim Obama founded ISIS
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Donald Trump repeatedly accused President Barack Obama of founding the Islamic State group on Thursday, refusing to take back a patently false allegation even when questioned about the logic of his position. A day after lobbing the attack against the president during a rowdy rally, Trump pressed ahead during a round of interviews. The Republican presidential nominee brushed off…
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Colorado family says son died fighting for Kurdish militia
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The parents of a Colorado man reported killed fighting against the Islamic State group says their son joined Kurdish forces to “fight the evil that is ISIS.” Jordan MacTaggart, 22, was believed to be killed on Aug. 3 while fighting in a squad that included two Americans and a Swede in Manbij, Syria, said his father Robert…
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May: The problem with globalism
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And why isolationism is not the solution Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo.” That line from Donald Trump’s long and emphatic speech to the Republican National Convention jumped out at me. I think I know what he meant: that he prioritizes America’s national interests above those of the wider world. If so, most Americans…
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May: The jihadis in France, the Islamists in Turkey
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While Western leaders dither, others are shaping the 21st century Streets ran red with blood in both France and Turkey last week. A terrorist atrocity and an attempted coup are quite different events. But underlying both is this question: How are the most dynamic forces within the Islamic world shaping the 21st century? Jihadism is,…
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May: Obama’s Iran experiment
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As a result of his nuclear deal, concluded a year ago, the regime has not become more moderate A hypothetical question: Suppose the Islamic State wanted to buy some American airplanes, and promised not to use them to support terrorists. Would you be OK with that? I’m guessing not. Now suppose that the Islamic Republic…
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May: Terrorism and economic warfare
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It’s a one-two punch meant to bring about a Middle East without Jews Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market bills itself as the “heartbeat of Israeli culinary art.” Dozens of small restaurants and shops offer cheese, wine, bread, fish, olives, pasta, burgers – pretty much anything you can imagine and quite a bit that you probably cannot.…
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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…