There is no great lack of ignorance about the religion of Islam in the United States. In a recent New York Times editorial, entitled “Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite”, Jeff Stein relates having asked intelligence and law enforcement officials, as well as members of Congress, what the…
When asked what the U.S. response would be the news that North Korea has detonated a nuclear device, President George W. Bush said that he would not use force because “diplomacy hasn’t run its course,” thus implying that he believes that the use of force should be a last resort.…
Thirty years ago today, a bomb exploded on a Cubana Airlines plane over the Caribbean Sea, resulting in the death of all 73 passengers on board. The anniversary of this terrorist attack “coincides with a critical juncture in the case of Luis Posada Carriles,” the Washington Post explains. Posada is wanted…
In The Washington Post’s October 2 article, “Iraq War Naysayers May Have Hindsight Bias,” author Shankar Vedantum asserts that “it isn’t quite true” that “we saw the disaster coming” in Iraq, with the “disaster” being a reference to the National Intelligence Estimate conclusion “that the war in Iraq was creating…
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