Dear Terrorists: OK, you win. We surrender. Never thought I’d say that, but then, I never thought I’d see gunmen burst into the offices of a satirical magazine as happened last Wednesday in Paris. Never thought I’d see 12 people killed — most were employees, two were police officers — because a magazine published provocative […]
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Fareed Zakaria: Blasphemy takes on a political agenda
NEW YORK — As they went on their rampage, the men who murdered 12 people in Paris this week yelled that they had “avenged the prophet.” They follow in the path of other terrorists who have bombed newspaper offices, stabbed a filmmaker, and killed writers and translators, all to mete out what they believe is […]
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R. Grover: When will there be a strategy?
With ISIS growing in strength, numbers and territory and Russia’s Vladimir Putin deploying men and tanks into Ukraine, President Obama dithers, seemingly unable or unwilling to make a decision — any decision. The beheading of an American news correspondent a week or so ago prompted other top U.S. officials to state that ISIS constitutes a […]
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Fareed Zakaria: Arab political decay brought religious zealotry
WASHINGTON — Watching the gruesome execution videos, I felt some of the same emotions I did after 9/11. Barbarism is designed to provoke anger and it succeeded. But in September 2001, it also made me ask a question, “Why do they hate us?” I tried to answer it in an almost 7,000-word essay for Newsweek […]
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H. Kauffman: Curbing the urge for war
ISIS is evil. The Nazis were evil. There are frightening similarities between them. Both stemmed from perceived injustice; both had the most modern weapons; both had masterful propaganda; both aimed at absolute supremacy; both had limitless zeal; and both were aided by secret sources of money. The Nazis could have been stopped at an early […]
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L. Greaney: Leaders and laggards
All too often, elected officials are not equipped with the skills and intestinal fortitude to act in a timely fashion when the risks are viewed as overwhelming. This non-leadership “laggard” characteristic is currently on display in the federal government and many state governments and local municipalities. President Obama has been identified as having the attributes […]
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R. Lacombe: Did U.S. give up too much?
Did U.S. officials give up too much for the return of an American soldier who was held prisoner for five years? Perhaps. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl fought for his country against the Taliban, who are nothing but merciless killers looking for American blood, abroad and in the U.S. Bergdahl was released a month ago by his […]
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A. Hall: Only fooling ourselves
While we dither away about GMOs, taxing plastic bags and confronting that latest threat to humanity (phthalates in our plastic bottles), there are people across the ocean (for now) who are trying their best to impose a new Dark Age on humanity. Those people are willing and able to kill and be killed for their […]