A couple of days ago I wrote about a NY Times editorial that seemed on the surface to be critical of Obama’s foreign policy, but was really a cleverly crafted apologia for him. Make no mistake about it: the Times … Continue reading →
Hillary Clinton had plenty of chances to condemn Boko Haram back when she was Secretary of State: …[Clinton’s] own State Department refused to place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011, after the group bombed the … Continue reading →
One would think that this would be enormous news, and should have been from the moment the girls were kidnapped: Fears for the fate of more than 200 Nigerian girls [kidnapped from school on April 14, almost 3 weeks ago] … Continue reading →
I just turned on the TV as some of the cable news networks were engaged in hyping the fact that Australia has announced that satellites have imaged two pieces of debris in the southern Indian Ocean that might be from … Continue reading →
Simple theories are usually most elegant, but they still have to account for the known facts. With Flight 370, the facts that are known are not necessarily substantiated. But any theory advanced must account for all of them. That leaves … Continue reading →
It makes sense for Israel to be cautious: With no trace of Beijing-bound flight MH370 after nine days, one of several theories that has emerged is that the plane was hijacked to Iran, where it could be turned into a … Continue reading →
Seems to me that this previous incident is not getting as much press as it should. It was an organized and quite recent (June 2012) attempt by Uyghurs—the Muslim separatist group in western China—to hijack a Chinese plane. And it … Continue reading →
And it will get a lot thicker before this is through. Captain Zaharie is now stepping to the forefront of authorities’ suspicions: Captian Shah [Zaharie] was an ”˜obsessive’ supporter of Ibrahim. And hours before the doomed flight left Kuala Lumpur … Continue reading →
Well, this certainly narrows it down, doesn’t it? What an “interesting” neighborhood: [Malaysian Prime Minister] Razak said countries located in the flight corridors that are now the focus of the search have been contacted so they can share radar data … Continue reading →
At least, not yet. I hope that someday we’ll learn enough to make sense of it. But I’m beginning to wonder if that day will ever happen. Or if we’ll ever get a straight story on it from the authorities. … Continue reading →
Ever since 9/11 and the subsequent attack attempts, airport security has used each new incident to come up with new safety measures. Some of them are rather esoteric, and many inconvenience passengers before every flight: an obvious example would be … Continue reading →
My best guess at this point is terrorism as the cause of the Malaysian air crash. Terrorism would seem an odd choice for a Malaysian flight traveling between Malaysia and China. But China was the seat of a recent terrorist … Continue reading →