Thomas Sowell writes with clarity and succinctness on one unusual and especially troubling characteristic of the enemy we now face: its undeterrability (hat tip: Pajamas Media). Undeterrability makes this fight different from previous ones. It makes efforts at peaceful negotiation … Continue reading →
Yesterday I wrote that the word “unimaginable” makes no sense in terms of the thwarted terror attacks. After 9/11, they were not only imaginable, but eminently so. But it turns out it’s even worse than that. Not only were they … Continue reading →
The casualties at Qana are horrific. The visuals are heartrending, and the details sorrowful–especially the predominance of women and children among the dead. We are biologically predisposed to want to protect children–to love them, to smile when we see them. … Continue reading →
A man opened fire at the Jewish Federation building in Seattle today, killing one woman and wounding four others. He identified himself as an “American Moslem,” and said he was upset about “what was going on in Israel.” I assume … Continue reading →
The International Red Cross has said that Israel’s response in Lebanon violates the “proportionality” principle of the Geneva Conventions (see this for my views on proportionality). The group has also issued the following statement about the terrorist group Hezbollah: Hezbollah … Continue reading →
Jihadi terrorists are not strictly bound to the confines of a state, and their calling cards are sometimes hard to read. That’s one of their strengths; it makes it very difficult to strike back at them with weapons of conventional … Continue reading →
In line with the theme of some of my other posts today, we have this, about Hezbollah’s tactics in the current conflict in Lebanon: Hizbollah hid many of the rockets in private homes, and had teams that launched the rockets … Continue reading →
By now you’ve probably read about the train bombings in India (and here’s an excellent roundup on the subject from Pajamas Media, by the way). Over a hundred people dead and counting, and this is just one incident in a … Continue reading →
Children are being actively recruited by the Palestinians into the cult of martyrdom, which encompasses both the extreme of suicide bombing and other, “milder” activities such as acting as shields for adult fighters. These children do not get the idea … Continue reading →
Today there was a car bomb attack in Iraq characterized as the largest terrorist act there since May, when the new government took office. Over sixty people were killed in the blast, which occurred in a street market located in … Continue reading →
I’ve written before about the dilemma of choosing a term to describe our enemies in this war. Islamofascists? No, not exact enough; and misleading, hearkening back to our World War II enemies who had different political ideologies and methods. Islamic … Continue reading →
The news was all but inevitable: the bodies of the two missing soldiers have been found in Iraq, and spokespeople say they have been “tortured in a barbaric fashion.” No details have as yet been provided. Pajamas Media has a … Continue reading →