The intrepid mujahedin, hiding behind women and children in hopes of buying time on the battlefield and scoring propaganda points in the eagerly credulous global press. “Embattled Afghan Taliban rely on human shields,” by Alfred de Montesquiou and Rahim Faiez for the Associated Press, February 17: MARJAH, Afghanistan – Taliban…
Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1996. Kucinich does not believe that the U.S. should hold foreign states accountable for the actions of terrorists who operate within their borders. In this view, the 9/11 hijackers and their co-conspirators were an independent band of criminals who should have been prosecuted through legal, not [...]
MARJA, AFGHANISTAN — To the Marines of Bravo Company, the black-and-white video footage from a surveillance drone seemed to present the perfect shot: more than a dozen armed insurgents exiting a building and heading to positions to attack U.S. and Afghan forces seeking to wrest control of this Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. Facing stiff [...]
The present article focuses on the so-called “peace left” – so called because most of the individuals participating in it are not pacifists and are not really interested in peace as such, but in radical agendas that are served by opposing America’s war on terror. (Thus there were no “peace” demonstrations at the Iraqi embassy [...]
Goldstone invokes his Jewishness, Zionism, his daughter’s residence in Israel and his connection to Hebrew University.
Part 1 is here, and part 2 here. In 1918, T. E. Lawrence set down some advice for his fellow British military men (and civilians) on Understanding and Dealing with the Bedu for “beginners in the Arab armies.” Given that Lawrence had been working with the Sharifian forces for less…
In Human Events this morning I discuss the Pentagon’s ridiculous report on the Fort Hood jihad massacre: The Defense Department released its report Friday on the jihad massacre at Fort Hood, and it is hard to imagine a document more full of denial and deception. Above all, the Pentagon seems…
Joe Biden, call your office. That incorrigible 5% is acting up again. “Afghan capital Kabul hit by ‘Taliban’ attack,” from the BBC, January 18 (thanks to all who sent this in): Suspected Taliban militants have launched an attack in the Afghan capital Kabul, setting off explosions and sparking a gun…
Saddam Hussein’s notorious cousin “Chemical Ali” was convicted and sentenced to death by hanging on Sunday for ordering the gassing of Kurds in 1988, killing more than 5,000 in an air raid thought to be the worst single attack of its kind on civilians. It was Ali Hassan al-Majid’s fourth death sentence for crimes against [...]
It is a clever strategy: create the appearance of Israeli killings of civilians by launching attacks from civilian areas, and then seeking to prosecute Israeli officials for retaliating at all. The overall objective, of course, is to bring down so much international opprobrium upon Israel that it will be paralyzed…
