In the Nov. 16 Associated Press article on the bombing by French military planes of Raqqa, Syria, the Islamic State group’s de facto capital, the group was quoted as saying that it attacked Paris because it abhors the city as “the capital of prostitution and obscenity.” This from the ogres who make no secret of […]
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Give terrorists no attention
With the latest wave of terror hitting Europe, I have been seeing in the news the face of some deranged guy who was killed by police or possibly blew himself up. On CNN, FOX, other Maine stations, they are showing some guy smiling, acting normal and then the carnage he inflicted on innocent people. ISIS […]
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A Paris moment for U.S. politics?
WASHINGTON — The 2016 presidential campaign has been peculiarly disconnected from the real world of problems, crises and governing. It took the catastrophe in Paris to narrow the gap — and even a monstrous terrorist attack may not shake the trajectory of a contest that operates within a logic of its own. The inevitable distance […]
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The troubled young terrorist next door
The details about Mohammad Abdulazeez, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga grad accused of murdering four Marines and a sailor, dripped out in the familiar pattern. The first thing to come out of the shocking news is the name of the alleged attacker. Then there is speculation about what sick ideology may have inspired the […]
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Terrorists bring war to America
The genius of American federalism is at work, in this instance responding to an international threat our national government irresponsibly disregards. Six state governors have done what the White House and Department of Defense should have done years ago. In the wake of the deadly July 16 terror attacks in Chattanooga, Tenn., governors in Arkansas, […]
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Dialogue the best way to defang terrorists
NEW YORK — A meeting recently near Pakistan’s capital city of Islamabad could possibly mark the beginning of the end of America’s longest war — the conflict in Afghanistan, which will enter its 15th year this fall. A delegation from the Afghan government met with members of the Taliban — with Pakistani, Chinese and U.S. […]
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J. Sherbak: The real martyrs
Just a thought — in this world of ours, people who are being killed by terrorists are the martyrs, not the people who are killing them. John Sherbak, Lisbon Falls
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Fareed Zakaria: The limits of the ‘Islamic’ label
NEW YORK — President Obama stands accused of political correctness for his unwillingness to accuse groups such as the Islamic State of “Islamic extremism,” choosing a more generic term, “violent extremism.” His critics say you cannot fight an enemy that you will not name. Even his supporters feel that his approach is too “professorial.” But […]
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Rich Lowry: Evil should be called by its proper name
Where is Chris Kyle when you need him? The late hero of the movie “American Sniper” made no apology for killing as many members of al-Qaida in Iraq, the precursor of ISIS, as he could get in his rifle sights. After the burning alive of a captured Jordanian pilot, who would object to Kyle, or […]
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Charles Krauthammer: Obama’s policies leave Jordan standing alone
WASHINGTON — Why did they do it? What did the Islamic State think it could possibly gain by burning alive a captured Jordanian pilot? I wouldn’t underestimate the absence of logic, the sheer depraved thrill of a triumphant cult reveling in its barbarism. But I wouldn’t overestimate it either. You don’t overrun much of Syria […]