Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan is probably wondering if his mother misnamed him. He is trying to simultaneously combat Muslim fundamentalist terror in the North on the one hand, a general strike called to protest the end of subsidies on gasoline, and official corruption throughout the country. In a very frank address at a church service […]
“Strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is their destination.” Quran 9:73 Have you heard that Islam is a peaceful religion because most Muslims live peacefully and that only a “tiny minority of extremists” practice violence? That’s like saying that White supremacy […]
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine warned Monday that PLO meetings with Israeli envoys in Amman, Jordan were “poison” for reconciliation talks between Fatah and Hamas. The statement came as PLO negotiators prepared to meet Israeli envoys in the Jordanian capital Monday for a second round of “exploratory talks” called for by the […]
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is set to begin a four-nation tour of Latin America Sunday to tighten up ties with the countries who remain as his allies. Iran’s ministers for foreign affairs, energy, commerce, trade and mines will accompany him on the tour. First stop on the list is Venezuela, to see close friend and ally […]
Iran has the ability to temporarily block the Strait of Hormuz but the U.S. “would take action and reopen” it, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman General Martin Dempsey said Sunday, making clear to Iran that in threatening to close the straits, it is literally playing with fire. . “They’ve invested in capabilities that could, in […]
The new US defense review combines politics, economics and ideology. The decision to make cuts in the US military forces will obviously appeal to President Obama’s base. Obama has announced that the US is ending a decade of war and is effectively going to concentrate on rebuilding the United States domestically. The administration has renounced […]
Despite recent tensions between Iran and the United States, the U.S. Navy announced on Friday it had rescued 13 Iranian fishermen being held by Somali pirates in the Arabian Sea. Fox News reported that an SH-60S Seahawk from the guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd detected the pirates while a simultaneous distress call was received from the […]
Although Libya has rid itself of the Muammar Qadhafi regime, it faces an uncertain future endangered by radical Islamist factions, warring militia commanders, tribal rivalries, a lack of democratic traditions, and a civil society ravaged by decades of authoritarian rule. Last week, two militias clashed violently in a turf war in Tripoli, the Libyan capital. […]
The war in Afghanistan may end this year in thinly disguised surrender. “The Taliban per se is not our enemy,” Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview with Newsweek magazine Dec. 15. We went to war in Afghanistan to oust the Taliban regime because it had sheltered al-Qaida. Perhaps Mr. Biden forgot. A story […]
U.S. intelligence agencies forecast beyond the next five years any possible threats to US interests. Robert Gates, serving as U.S. secretary of defense, noted two months into NATO’s intervention in Libya, “If you’d asked me four months ago if we’d be in Libya today, I would have asked, ‘What were you smoking?’” The U.S […]
