THE BRITS END THE WAR ON TERROR
By Alan Nathan © 2006 FrontPageMag The Observer in Britain reported on December 10: Cabinet ministers have been told by the Foreign Office to drop the phrase “war on terror” and other terms seen as liable to anger British Muslims and increase tensions more...
THE ALZHEIMER’S STUDY GROUP
By Alan Nathan © 2006 FrontPageMag.com Again we see why cooking alone and operating heavy machinery aren’t the only things folks should stop doing after they turn 75. The Over the Hill Gang’s assessment of our challenges in Iraq includes a recommendation...
POLITICS AND WAR
By Alan Nathan © 2006 FrontPageMagazine.com There are times when the inertia of diplomacy endangers more lives than would the action it’s trying to abate, and it is at such moments when action becomes the more humane choice. Stupidly, we forget that the...
“CHANGE”DOES NOT MEAN “SURRENDER”
By Alan Nathan © 2006 FrontPageMag.com Iran and much of the Middle East are celebrating the Democrats’ victory. If I’m a Democrat, I’ve got to feel uncomfortable with an enemy state heralding my party’s triumph just because it views left-wingers as more...
THE UN’s RIGGED STANDARDS
By Alan Nathan © 2006 FrontPageMag The UN’s partisans have a formula for dealing with the nuclear threat of North Korea: just sit back and relax as once more America begs legitimacy from the illegitimate. Unable to voir dire the UN Security Council as we...
REPLACE RUMSFELD AT WHIPLASH SPEED
By Alan Nathan © 2006 Washington Examiner How can we maintain our allegiance to the Iraqi War when those responsible for its victorious outcome are so instrumental in its delay? It’s not as if we don’t want success or appreciate the gravity of failure....
Fighting Terrorists Makes More Terrorists [SARCASM]
By Alan Nathan © 2006 Washington Examiner War opponents are cheerfully heralding the National Intelligence Council’s national intelligence estimate that portrays our war in Iraq as the catalyst for increasing terrorist volunteers. Completed in April but...
WHY THE ENEMY CAN REJOICE – And Who They Can Thank
By Alan Nathan © 2006 The national argument has turned to guidelines for interrogating terrorist prisoners and instead of reaching a consensus that provides some legal specificity, our leaders are lunging for ambiguity in the name of international law....
The UN: Too Much of a Joke to be Funny
By Alan Nathan © 2006 FrontPageMag At what point does an institution’s incompetence become so expansively documented and self-evident that even the most academically impoverished finally accept its life-threatening uselessness? A quick look back reveals...
Let The Jews Die- So That Jihadists May Live & Kill Others
By Alan Nathan © 2006 FrontPageMag UN Secretary General Kafi Annan repeatedly describes as “disproportionate” the Israeli response to the act of war committed by the Hezbollah wing of the Lebanese government; on July 31st in Beirut, French Foreign Minister...