Tag Archives: islamism
Obama Hovers From on High
When President Obama returned from his first European trip, I observed that while over there he had been “acting the philosopher-king who hovers above the fray mediating” between America and the world. Now that Obama has returned from his “Muslim world” pilgrimage, even the left agrees. “Obama’s standing above the country, above — above the world. He’s sort of God,” Newsweek’s Evan Thomas said to a concurring Chris Matthews, reflecting on Obama’s lofty perception of himself as the great transcender. Continue reading
The Purple Prose of Cairo
The media purred over the “credibility” that Obama enjoys in the Muslim world. If so, it is a credibility based on either cluelessness or cynicism: perhaps Muslims don’t know about Obama’s turbo-secularism, or, if they do, they just don’t care, figuring that they at least share a common enemy –Christianity. Continue reading
It's Beginning Again
Israelis have been involved in this process long enough to know that each “new beginning” is worse than its predecessor. Continue reading
How Bush Doctrine Batters Islamists
The election of women represents a political earthquake in the Gulf Cooperation Council, a grouping of six oil-rich traditional Arab monarchies. Kuwait has had a parliament on and off since gaining independence in 1960, but the other GCC members entered the era of electoral politics largely due to pressure from the Bush administration. US pressure also played a crucial part in persuading Kuwait’s leaders to enfranchise women for the first time in 2005. Continue reading
Inhuman Rights
The HRC has no legal authority. It passes nonbinding resolutions on what it decides are human rights abuses and can only make recommendations to the General Assembly. Nevertheless, its resolutions enjoy the UN imprimatur, and it can legitimize barbarities simply by ignoring them. If a dictator can claim in the international media that the HRC has passed no resolutions against him, his job of maintaining the status quo and lobbying against intervention in his country’s affairs becomes that much easier. Continue reading
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