Bookworm on Oct 20 2007 | Filed under: Media matters, Muslim violence, Philippines
A bomb goes of in a mall in Manila, a country that’s been the subject of devastating terrorist attacks from Islamist groups. The news story starts by describing the bomb, having a government official announce that it’s a terrorist attack, and then acknowledges that such attacks do happen in Manila, albeit rarely:
A blast in [...]
Bookworm on Oct 18 2007 | Filed under: Anti-Americanism, Arabs, Muslim violence
The familiar (way too familiar) trope on the Left is that the Bush doctrine is making everyone in the world hate us. That desire to be loved, and the fear of being hated, is a feelings based mentality, of course, that has nothing to do with justice, morality, right, honor, etc. My own view, as [...]
Bookworm on Sep 28 2007 | Filed under: Afghanistan, Military
Yesterday I blogged about the fact that, in Israel, the military solution is working against the Intifadah. Today, Roy Robison points out that the same is true in the war against Al Qaeda. (He also notes that there is no truth to the anti-War charge that the Bush Administration is so busy in [...]
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