If A Republican Wins In 2012, At Least America Won’t Need To Fear Sharia Law

Last month, I wrote an op-ed for Investor's Business Daily detailing why, in my humble opinion, GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum's long history of "political protectionism" was the exact opposite of "conservative" - the label that he so loudly ascribes to himself - and potentially disqualifying.  Given Santorum's rise in the national polls and the fact that IBD re

I finally got around to reading Noam Chomsky’s much-criticized statement on Osama bin Laden and there’s really something almost amazingly naive about his opening line: It’s increasingly clear that the operation was a planned assassination, multiply violating elementary norms of international law. Contrast that with, say, the United Nations Security Council: [...]

It always strikes me that the United States could learn a lot from how India responds to terrorist attacks. From an outsider point of view, India seems to have a few clear priorities. They want robust economic growth. They want to maintain a clear military edge over Pakistan. They want to be able to deter a Chinese attack. And they want to be respected on the world stage as a great power. They understand that these are difficult but attainable goals.

Osama bin Laden seems to have dropped a new audiotape. The early highlights: Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden described President Barack Obama as “powerless” to stop the war in Afghanistan and threatened to step up guerrilla warfare there in a new audiotape released to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States.

In a piece for TAP online I argue that the killing of Osama bin Laden shows that we don’t need to be fighting a war in Afghanistan and have essentially achieved the main objectives of launching the war: Here are Bush’s original demands:

By Alyssa Rosenberg As the details of the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, it was inevitable that somebody would observe (as many people did), that the operation was going to make a really fantastic action movie. Such a movie would be really hard to get right: it could easily be a cheap action picture, when this coda to the brokenness of our last ten years deserves a profound piece of art.