With Bernard Lewis’ new book The Crisis of Islam we are blessed with a scholar who is both honest and sympathetic to his subject when presenting the wide span of Islamic history and culture. However, in Kenneth Pollack’s review, he finds something lacking:
Lewis still has not grappled with the deeper questions for his readers. […]
To the offical TAM International Correspondent:
Attempts to contact you by various methods have proven ineffective. The publisher of TAM as well as the past editor of the Probitas (and his wife) worry that you might have been kidnapped and taken to Baghdad, Tikrit, or *gasp* Paris. E-mail or leave a comment to this […]
Maybe in the post-Saddam world, the U.S., France, Russia, and Germany can agree that Iraqi debt reduction will help. Treasury Secretary John Snow has already begun talking to his French counterpart about it, and Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) has a resolution in Congress supporting it. Since Iraq owes lots of countries lots of […]
You would think seeing cheering Iraqis stomping on a statue of Saddam would bring warm feelings to everyone’s hearts. Not so in the case of Journal Sentinel columnist Eugene Kane.
To the uninformed eye, it’s hard to tell whether this is jubilation or anarchy.
Even harder to know is whether the ordinary citizens of Iraq were […]
It was simply amazing to watch that Saddam statue fall among the crowd in Firdos Square. While not being a sign that the war is over, it does prove that the Ba’aths won’t be terrorizing Iraqis anymore. That moment in time is a pleasant reminder that all the suffering, deaths, and treasure was […]
Saddam’s love boat is no more. [via The Command Post]
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For a network who thinks it’s the target of military attacks, I’m shocked at this statement by news editor, Ibrahim Hillal:
We still have four reporters in Baghdad, we will pull them out. We have one embedded with US forces in Nassiriya; we want to pull him out.
For a country that supposedly hates al-Jazeera, it’s awfully […]
If Afghanistan was any indication, an allied victory in Iraq won’t create hundreds of bin Ladens. Daniel Pipes gives reasons why this might happen. I sympathize most this one:
As bin Laden himself put it, “When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse.” An […]
Should Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) get the Democratic nomination, the GOP should be a little wary of slapping the “liberal Democrat” label on him. Last Sunday, he told an Iowa peace activist that was opposed to military spending cuts. “It is on this issue that you and I disagree. I think it’s […]
People die in war. That’s the most unfortunate result. Buildings are destroyed and land decimated, but the loss of human life is the saddest. Buildings can be rebuilt, and land can be replenished, but science hasn’t found a way to bring back human life once it’s been snuffed out.
For some news organizations […]
David Skinner digs into the Beastie Boys’ anti-war track, “In a World Gone Mad.” He doesn’t have anything good to say about it:
The beastly protest song–”In A World Gone Mad,” it’s called–is the Beastie Boys taking themselves seriously, despite a long and hilarious run that would recommend they do otherwise. Available via free download […]
If the Pulitzer Prize committee handed out awards based on a writer’s influence, then Colbert King wouldn’t have won this year’s award for commentary. When I read that he won, I asked myself, “Who is Colbert King?” It’s uncomfortable for a news junkie like me to have never heard of King. He […]
The allies are now moving at will in Baghdad and Basra. U.S. troops are even staying the night in one of Saddam’s palaces. Only a few dozen tanks have been knocked out in less than three weeks, and allied casualties around 100. It’s shocking when you remember all the critics going off […]
My how much things can change in a week. Last weekend, Marquette could do no wrong in their smashing victory over Kentucky. Last night, they got their clocks cleaned to a Kansas team that played suffocating defense and pushed the ball like it was a lay-up drill. It was painful to watch […]
No wonder U.N. inspectors had trouble finding Saddam’s chemical weapons. He had them dumped into the Euphrates.
What kind of man allows chemical weapons to be dumped in a river? The same man who used them against civilians and lets his thugs terrorize the public. The same man who cares about […]
