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India's 9/11: How it Could Happen Again
(ForeignPolicy.com) One year ago this Thursday, 10 gunmen wreaked havoc across Mumbai. The targets they attacked included two world-class hotels, a café popular with foreign tourists, the headquarters of India's Central Railways, and a Orthodox Jewish center. One hundred and thirty-eight Indians were killed in the attacks, and 28 foreign nationals lost their lives as well. It took almost...
Mullahs on the Verge: Iran's People, Iran's Pulpits
(World Affairs Journal) The Iranian
people are in a state of suspense as
they watch an increasingly oppressive
militarist junta and a more democratic
regime both struggling to be born.
History shows that such moments...
America's Alliances Are Costly Relics
(Defense News) Over the past 60 years, the United States has accumulated a remarkable number of alliances. Today, nearly all of Europe, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Australia and a range of other nations peer out at the world from behind America's skirts. America's allies bring a multitude of liabilities and few assets to the table, however, and it is unclear how today's global...
Interview: Abdullah Abdullah Upon Dropping Out of Afghan Runoff
(NPR) National Public Radio interviews
former Afghan presidential candidate
Abdullah Abdullah after he dropped
out of a scheduled runoff election with
It is widely expected that the U.S. and Russia will sign a deal on a new START treaty by the December deadline.
Obama’s Approach to Arms Control Misreads Russian Nuclear Strategy
(Heritage Foundation) Russia still considers the United States its “principal adversary.” Russia also relies on its nuclear weapons to compensate for its inferiority in conventional weapons relative to the U.S., NATO, and China. Russian political and military leaders are still captives of czarist and Soviet geopolitical thinking and...
Iraq’s January Elections Face Near Certain Delay
(NY Times) Iraq’s tortuous effort to
hold its parliamentary election on
schedule in January collapsed Monday,
raising the prospect of a political and
constitutional crisis next year as the
United States begins withdrawing the...
Syria's Path to Islamist Terror
(Middle East Quarterly) While the Obama administration and congressional leaders may justify renewed engagement with Syria with their desire to jumpstart the Middle East peace process, they ignore the very issue that lies at the heart of the Syrian threat to U.S. national security: Syrian support for radical Islamist terror. This may seem both illogical and counterfactual given past...
'Moderate' Malaysia Faces Islamized
(World Politics Review) As a country
often referred to as an example of a
moderate Muslim-majority state in the
region, Malaysia has been raising
eyebrows worldwide lately.A string of
incidents has recently underlined...
As Washington talks Iraq withdrawal, the Pentagon builds up bases in the region.
MS-13 SMUGGLES THOUSANDS OF MUSLIM TERRORISTS INTO U.S.
(TheLastCrusade.org) The situation at the border now poses a grave threat to national security. Agent Mike Scioli of the U.S. Border Patrol confirms that the Tucson sector of the Border Patrol is facing a worsening problem with Mara Salvatrucha, a Salvadoran street gang that now controls the flow of arms, drugs, and illegal aliens into...
MS-13 Gang Member with Arabic tatoos (Police Photograph)
(NY Post) Emanuel(brother of White
House Chief of Staff) says medical
care should be reserved for the non-
disabled, not given to those "who are
irreversibly prevented from being or
becoming participating citizens . .
Health Care Reform: A Better Plan
(by Charles Krauthammer) In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Bill Bradley created a legislative miracle. They fashioned a tax reform that stripped loopholes, political favors, payoffs, patronage and other corruptions out of the tax system. With the resulting savings, they lowered tax rates across the board. Those reductions, combined with the elimination of the enormous inefficiencies and perverse...
UK to Michael Savage: Apologize for Your Views and We Might Lift Ban
(WND.com) The government in the United Kingdom has dispatched a letter to talk radio icon Michael Savage that he must "repudiate" the views the government has attributed to him before he even can be considered for removal from a banned-in-Britain government list. "Any such repudiation must be genuine and comprehensive"...
Derivatives Overhaul Seeks to Reduce Risk
(WSJ.com) The Obama administration
detailed a sweeping plan to more
closely oversee the giant market for
derivatives by forcing many of the
products to trade on regulated
exchanges or electronic venues.
Obama health-care plan destroys cheap health care options, raises taxes
(Examiner.com) In 2008, Obama
promised not to raise taxes on
anyone making less than $250,000 a
year. But he is now breaking that
promise by proposing to tax some
middle-class families to pay for...
Emanuel: Believes in withholding care from elderly for greater good.
