RIP, Justin and Stephanie Shults. I also suggest you read this article about how the Belgian authorities treated captured Paris terrorist Abdeslan with kid gloves. Here’s an excerpt: Astonishingly, officials did not question Abdeslam at all for his first 24 … Continue reading →
There are some rather large security holes through which the Belgium terrorists slipped. For example, as in many other recent European attacks, the perpetrators were “known wolves”: All three of the suspects, each Belgian citizens, had been alerted to Belgian … Continue reading →
Obama reacts as usual—courting our enemies while downplaying his reaction to terrorism: Obama remains inert, unmoved, displaying a neglect and insouciance that borders on denial. His nonreaction to the Belgian massacre ”” his 34-minute speech in Havana devoted 51 seconds … Continue reading →
Commenter “Artfldgr” has offered this link from Haaretz: The security services knew, with a high degree of certainty, that attacks were planned in the very near future for the airport and, apparently, for the subway as well. Despite the advance … Continue reading →
The other two were apparently suicide bombers and are dead. The third man has not been publicly identified yet, but he had appeared on surveillance video in a light-colored jacket. Nor has it been announced how he was found, but … Continue reading →
Multiple bombs went off in the Brussels metro and at the airport, resulting in terrible carnage with at least 28 killed. The attacks may have been revenge for the recent capture of Salah Abdeslam, who was involved in the Paris … Continue reading →
In Belgium, naturally, in the Brussels district known as Molenbeek: Salah Abdeslam was shot in the leg by police commandos following a four-month international manhunt and has been arrested in the district of Molenbeek in the Belgian capital. The country’s … Continue reading →
Horrific violence continues in Israel as part of the stabbing intifada: American veteran and Vanderbilt University student Taylor Force was stabbed to death, and his wife seriously injured. Force, a graduate student in management, was on a trip to Israel … Continue reading →
I wanted to call attention to something I discussed in the comments section yesterday. In all the brouhaha about what Donald Trump said about “targeting” terrorists’ families, it hasn’t been much emphasized that he made a blatant factual error during … Continue reading →
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Continue reading →[NOTE: Even though this is somewhat of an old topic, I’m taking it up because of the revival of the “Obama, fool or knave?” argument the other day.] We all know that Obama called ISIS the “jayvee” back when it … Continue reading →
This certainly seems prescient. It’s a 2007 interview with President Bush. He uses the phrase “failure in Iraq,” but we didn’t actually fail; we (Obama, that is) abandoned it very prematurely. I don’t think that, at the time of this … Continue reading →