High-ranking National Security Council (NSC) veteran Richard Clarke consistently condemned President George W. Bush’s “unnecessary and costly war in Iraq” in his 2004 memoir Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror. Yet Clarke’s own analysis reveals a much more complex picture of the policy choices involved in this “counterproductive Iraq fiasco” as well […]
Lefty Rag: ‘Modern Jihad’ Is Not Islamic; It’s the Fault of ‘Neoliberal Capitalism’
My latest in PJ Media: CounterPunch is a gang of hard-Left fantasists, but since their ideological kin run the world today, it’s worthwhile to look in on their fever dreams from time to time. On Friday, CounterPunch published an article entitled “The Privatization of ‘Jihad,’” alongside their usual fare: “If You Work in the U.S., You […]
Richard Clarke’s Good War in Afghanistan
Experts “who examined the Afghan security issue closely have no doubt that the United States could have brought true stability to Afghanistan with a larger force, could have made the return of the Taliban and the terrorists virtually impossible.” So assured high-ranking National Security Council veteran Richard Clarke in his controversial 2004 book, Against […]
Germany: Muslim Arab who acted in film against anti-Semitism attacks Jew, is identified as ‘German’ in police report
The victim “repeated his criticism that police often turned a blind eye regarding perpetrators with a foreign background.” Yes. And why is that? “Anti-Semitic attack in Hamburg: attacker played role in Holocaust film,” translated from “Antisemitische Attacke in Hamburg: Angreifer spielte Rolle in Holocaust-Film,” by Sandro Serafin, Tichys Einblick, October 2, 2021 (thanks to Medforth): […]
Saudi Arabia’s House of Jihad
“What might Washington’s attitude be if some country alleged that the Opus Dei religious sect of Roman Catholicism were engaged in terrorism around the world and had to be destroyed, its leaders killed or arrested?” High-ranking National Security Council veteran Richard Clarke raised this intriguing question while analyzing Saudi Arabia’s connections to jihadist terror […]
‘Terrorism Czar’ for Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43: Al Qaeda Has ‘Deviant Variant of Islam’
Al Qaeda has a “deviant variant of Islam,” wrote Richard Clarke, a member of the National Security Council under Presidents George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, in his 2004 book, Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror. This memoir from a high-ranking counterterrorism official about the “jihadist terrorist threat” […]
After years of publicly disavowing the group, Pakistan calls for world leaders to ‘engage’ with the Taliban
“War is deceit,” said Muhammad (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 52, Hadith 269) For years, Pakistan denied helping the Taliban, even as its support for the group was an open secret. Yet Westerners continue to take Islamic supremacist leaders at their word, including the Iranian regime that continues its pursuit of a nuke deal. For decades, Pakistan […]
MSNBC’s Jonathan Capeheart: ‘MAGA and the domestic terror threat is much more worrisome than any foreign threat’
This is hysterical fantasy, and it’s leading up to the criminalization of political dissent in the U.S. Meanwhile, which would Capeheart prefer? To be in Kabul, or in a district that solidly voted for Trump in 2020? Would he really prefer the former? I don’t think so. “MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart calls Trump supporters ‘more […]
Tony Blair: We’re fighting ‘perversion’ of Islam, it’ll be defeated by alliance with Muslims who oppose ‘extremism’
Who are those Muslims? Tony doesn’t seem to have given any names. “There is a real fight back within the Muslim world,” he says. Gee, that’s great to hear. Where is it? Where are the Muslims who are making a theological response to the jihadis’ theological case? I’ve examined many that claim to do so […]
Afghanistan Through Michael Scheuer’s Eyes
Many Western observers “have ignored the very real accomplishments and popular acceptance of the Taliban government in Afghanistan,” then-CIA analyst Michael Scheuer wrote anonymously in 2002. His previously-analyzed book, Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America, contains sobering analysis, which foresaw the failure of American-led nation-building efforts […]