by Bret Stephens, Global View, Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2008
Sadr City in Baghdad, the northeastern districts of Sri Lanka and the Guaviare province of Colombia have little in common culturally, historically or politically. But they are crucial reference points on a global map in which long-running insurgencies suddenly find themselves on the verge of […]

by Bret Stephens, Global View, The Wall Street Journal, May 27, 2008
The Department of Homeland Security thinks it’s a bad idea to use the word “liberty” when describing America’s foreign policy goals. Nor does it much like the terms “Islamist” and “jihadist.” Heaven forbid the federal government cause needless offense in the current war against, […]

Global View, Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal, May 13, 2008
On Friday, Hezbollah gunmen set fire to the Beirut offices of Future TV, a Lebanese broadcaster. On a purely symbolic level, it was an apt demonstration of where the Party of God stands in relation to the future itself.
But that wasn’t the worst of what has […]

comment by Jerry Gordon
China under the Communists has been endeavoring to suppress the religious beliefs of its citizens, often using brutal force and repression under the guise of agitprop. The translation of this picture of a banner in Lhasa, the capital of occupied Tibet is evidence of Orwellian “newspeak”: “Enhancing Public Safety Management, Safeguarding […]

comment by Jerry Gordon
Bret Stephens in today’s Wall Street Journal has exposed the ‘pop psychology’ explanations of Islamist terrorism by former CIA forensic psychiatrist and Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute of the University, Marc Sagerman. We had commented on Sagerman in a November posting on a New York Times Magazine article […]