Obama’s Self-Defeating Fight
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 17th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Obama’s Self-Defeating Fight
Caroline Glick, RealClearPolitics
The United States has a problem with Islamic State. Its problem is that it refuses to acknowledge why Islamic State is a problem. The problem with Islamic State is not that it is brutal. Plenty of regimes are brutal. Islamic State poses two challenges for the US. First, unlike the Saudis and even the Iranians, IS actively recruits Americans and other Westerners to join its lines. This is a problem because these Americans and other Westerners have embraced an ideology that is viciously hostile to every aspect of Western civilization. Last Friday, Buzz Feed published a compilation of social…
What Would Braveheart Do?
Pat Buchanan, RealClearPolitics
No matter how the vote turns out on Thursday in Scotland, either for independence or continued union with Britain, the disintegration of the Old Continent appears almost inevitable. Already the British government has conceded that, even if the Scots vote for union, Edinburgh will receive greater powers to rule itself. Cheering for the breakup of the U.K. are Catalans and Basques, Bretons and Corsicans, Tyroleans, Venetians, Flemish, all dreaming of nations of their own carved out of Spain, France, Italy and Belgium. Europe’s secessionists have waxed ever stronger since the last decade of the…
