Four Middle Eastern Upheavals
On all fronts, Islamists have an opportunity to expand their power.
On all fronts, Islamists have an opportunity to expand their power.
A much needed statement to his predecessor the president will never deliver.
Is there some obligation to compromise your conviction if it offends someone else? That would seem to be the meme John Avalon and The Daily Beast are promoting.
What is it the Western alliance is backing in Libya? Obama didn’t address this, but a quick glance back at the emergence of the Taliban may offer some insight.
Israel boycott turns into buycott
The Obama Doctrine, “responsibility to protect,” which means a license to invade another country not in self-defense but to enforce some vague “humanitarian” standard is a blank check for imperial intervention anywhere and everywhere.
Not surprisingly, the New York Times lead editorial today praised President Obama’s speech Monday night on Libya. The editorial claimed he made a “strong case” for America’s military intervention.
A Soros-led group, the secretive Democracy Alliance, which is a donors’ collaborative that brokers funds for groups that want to destroy America as we know it, has started up a new project called New Media Ventures. (Democracy Alliance was created to fund a permanent political infrastructure of nonprofit think tanks, media outlets, leadership schools, and activist groups to compete with the conservative movement.)
Not content to let Eric Alterman have all the fun of belittling Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Daily Beast writer John Avlon has joined the Bachmann bashing bandwagon, too. The Beast’s resident “extremism” hand-wringer is taking a more roundabout approach, suggesting that Bachmann is symptomatic of a broader radicalization of Minnesota, for which she and Gov. Tim Pawlenty “are going to have to answer for.”
Looking for some moral clarity, it showed up in the most surprising of places: Al-Jazeera television.
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