Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, admitted that the problem of Iran's growing nuclear weapons capability has to be "dealt with." She didn't say exactly how or when, but later on in the interview she did comment,...
Terrorism
Fight the Root of Terrorism With Bombs, Not Bread
In light of the recent suicide bombings in London, and the general inability of the West to prevent terrorist attacks, there is much talk about fighting the "root cause" of terrorism. The most popular argument is that terrorism is caused by poverty. The United Nations...
London Terrorism: British “Covenant of Security” with Islamists Ends
The country had gone from safe haven to enemy camp.
The World Trade Center Memorial — A Platform for America’s Enemies?
From The Wall Street Journal: The Great Ground Zero Heist; Will the 9/11 "memorial" have more about Abu Ghraib than New York's heroic firemen? by Debra Burlingame: The World Trade Center Memorial Cultural Complex will be an imposing edifice wedged in the place where...
The Essential Conflict: Freedom Versus Dictatorship
We have the military power; we have the moral right. The defense of our lives only requires that we properly identify our enemies and eliminate them.
Faith and Force: America’s War on Terrorism is Undercut by the Bush Administrations’s Injection of Religion into Politics
America's war on terrorism is being undercut--by the administration's efforts to inject religion into politics. Our enemy in that war is the ideology of Islamic totalitarianism--an ideology which holds that one's life is to be lived entirely in service to Allah, that...
What Kind of Intelligence Needs Reforming
I don't mean to minimize the concern over intelligence reform in this country. However, the kind of intelligence most desperately needed is the philosophical kind. For our government officials in the Pentagon, the CIA, and elsewhere, philosophical intelligence refers...
9/10 vs. 9/12 on 11/2
"I can wage a better war on terror than George Bush has." So speaks Senator Kerry in the U.S. presidential campaign's final days, again reminding voters that the key issue in this race remains as it was a year earlier - deciding which candidate will better protect...
Columbus Day: The Cure for 9/11
On Columbus Day, in sum, we celebrate Western civilization with the utter certainty that it is good according to an objective standard: man’s life. America therefore deserves to prevail against the religious totalitarians who would destroy industrial civilization and return mankind to the Stone Age.
Letters to The Editor: September 2004
September 28, 2004 Why Australia is No Ally to Kerry Australia is a strong ally of the United States. We have a history of fighting alongside American troops in the wars of self interest over the past century (World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Gulf War I). We...
Negotiating with Terrorists
Q: Dr. Hurd, I know you favor a strong stance against terrorism. However, I'm sure you disagree with the policy of the Bush Administration and Tony Blair in Britain to refuse to negotiate with the groups who practice beheading. People are dying in the most brutal...
A Tale of Two 9/11s
On September 11, 1814, Thomas MacDonough looked out across Lake Champlaign to see the fruits of his work over the summer. Upon the lake were near twenty ships, ranging in size from small gun boat, no more than a large row boat with a small cannon inside, to small...
America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism
He's filled with "a sense of dread that we continue to live on borrowed time," is "frustrated by the sense of denial that pervades so many corners of the federal government," and sees "a dangerous proclivity among U.S. officials to believe their own rhetoric about how...
What’s At Stake in the War Against Terrorism
Q: You say that if--when this country is attacked again--John Kerry would probably call the U.N. and "scream for help". But Kerry told the people of the U.S. that if it was attacked again he would respond or react. So why do you say that he would appeal to the U.N....
Reflecting America: World Trade Center Memorial Should Celebrate America’s Producers
"Reflecting Absence," the winning WTC memorial design, offers a list of randomly scattered names, a pool, and some trees, which elicit in most viewers nothing but bemused boredom. For those of us who loved the sight of the Towers and still grieve over the thousands of...
The Triumph Of the 9/11 Commission
The enemy is “Islamist terrorism…not just ‘terrorism‚’ some generic evil.”
Preventing 9/11: “A Failure of Imagination”?
Contrary to the claim by the 9/11 commission chairman, the failure to prevent 9/11 was not "a failure of imagination." It was a failure of cognition. For decades prior to 9/11, terrorist attacks against Americans were perpetrated without any noticeable response from...
Terrorism Works Against “The Weak Man” of Asia
Once dubbed the "sick man of Asia" for its anemic showing during the 1980s Asian economic boom, the Philippines has now earned the title "weak man of Asia" -- by caving in to terrorist demands in exchange for the release of a Filipino truck driver in Iraq. By being...
Fahrenheit 9/11: Propaganda for the Already Converted Fails as a Documentary
Fahrenheit 9/11 is propaganda for the converted.
Rex Reed’s Review of Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11”
Michael Moore's "documentary" Fahrenheit 9/11, having won the French Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival earlier in the month, opened on June 25th in some 800 American theaters. In its first weekend, it led the box office with a $21.8 million gross, according to ABC...
The Islamic World: At War with Western Civilization
The Islamic world is at war with Western civilization. We have the military might to thwart them. The question is: Do we have the intelligence to recognize the attack and the will to defend ourselves from annihilation?
Reagan’s Early Victory in the War on Terror
After 444 days of humbling Jimmy Carter, the rulers in Tehran decided to conclude their drama at the U.S. embassy before they had to face the new president.
Why Nick Berg was Executed
According to AOL News, a video posted Tuesday on an Islamic militant Web site showed the beheading of an American civilian in Iraq, and said the execution was carried out by an al-Qaida affiliated group to avenge the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers. To...
9/11 Commission’s Titanic Irresponsibility
The so-called "9/11 Commission" is supposedly trying to find out what happened, or failed to happen, that allowed the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 to succeed. But there is a big difference between trying to unearth facts about September 11, 2001 and trying...
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