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For the past several days classicist and military historian Victor Davis Hanson has been writing a lot on this Syria situation. I’ve already linked to a few of Hanson’s posts on the topic (see…
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UPDATE SEPTEMBER 6th — today from VDH: “Intervention in Syria Is a Very Bad Idea.” Here’s an excerpt on the Victor Davis Hanson article headlined above: President Obama’s on-and-off-again planned American attack on Syria…
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Thomas Sowell weighs in: Why are we even talking about taking military action in Syria? What is that military action supposed to accomplish? And what is the probability that it will in fact accomplish…
Read MoreGo back into the archives of this website and click around and read some of those 2008 articles that were posted or linked. It’s the same on every other conservative website. We all predicted…
Read MoreFrom the Daily Caller; text from the video is below: Immediately following his statement from the Rose Garden on Saturday, which President Barack Obama said he would delay a strike on Syria until seeking…
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I like this — from Rush — he nails it regarding Obama’s incompetence. From Politico: Rush Limbaugh on Friday joined other conservatives slamming the president for his inability to garner the support of more…
Read MoreTwo from National Review. The Middle East: All Bad Choices / By Victor Davis Hanson / From Libya to Iran, our past actions have drastically limited our current choices. Survey the Middle East, and…
Read MoreTwo articles on the topic. First, from John Stonestreet at Breakpoint: In his recent book, “Fleeing Herod,” the Australian writer James Cowan retraces the steps of the Holy Family’s flight into Egypt following Joseph’s…
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To close out another American Thinker Day here at Dispatches, Stella Paul is dead-on right — and the ending sentence of this excerpt is one of my favorites of all time: Hillary has already…
Read MoreThe Middle East Forum keeps an eye on this issue as well and I’ve linked to their articles in the past (here’s their latest). Now the Hoover Institute’s Bruce Thornton has taken it on:…
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From Robert P. George and Katrina Lantos Swett: A common theory about freedom of religion suggests that such a value is grounded in a modus vivendi, or compromise: People agree to respect each other’s…
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From Daniel Pipes: As recently as 2012, it appeared that Islamists could overcome their many internal dissimilarities – sectarian (Sunni, Shi’ite), political (monarchical, republican), tactical (political, violent), or attitudes toward modernity (Salafi, Muslim Brotherhood)…
Read MoreFrom American Thinker’s editor Thomas Lifson: For decades the American left made a business of denouncing “cultural imperialism,” the imposition of Western values on third world cultures. Coca-Colonialism, as it was sometimes caricatured, needed…
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Three interesting articles on Islam: What is Islam? By Jeff Jacoby For years, terrible and violent crimes have been committed in the name of Islam. Does that mean Islam is inherently a religion of…
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Two important articles on our country’s foreign policy. The first is from the Middle East Forum: Obama’s Proxy War on Mideast Christians With the recent decision to arm the opposition fighting Syrian President Assad,…
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