Month: February 2011

When the US accepted the Karzai government it snatched defeat from jaws of victory. There is not point in continuing the war in Afghanistan unless we start by killing Karzai and everyone near him. A government that executes people for converting to Christianity is always going to be a safe place for people to organize …

Is there a difference between “Islamic extremism”, and Islam? The British prime minster proposes Egypt as a test case: This highlights, I think, a significant problem when discussing the terrorist threat that we face.  There is so much muddled thinking about this whole issue.  On the one hand, those on the hard right ignore this …