The War on Terror is Over; Tahrir Buried It
Assuming religious politics will play a significant role in the new government after the elections, will it be radical, moderate, or just the familiar gridlock experienced by most democracies?
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The Jihadi Revolution is Dead (But Bin Laden’s Death Didn’t Kill It)
Tahrir Square clearly proved both bin Laden and his lieutenant al-Zawahiri wrong.
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Global Rebellion
Religious rebellion against the secular state isn’t actually about religion…
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The Return of Christian Terrorism
Threats of right-wing violence have doubled in the past year. What is behind the latest upsurge in the movement to create a Christian theocratic state?
Read MoreOnward Christian Terrorists; Fighting Evil in the Obama Era
Having publicly assured Tiller’s executioner that he acted in “righteousness and mercy,” affable Lutheran pastor Michael Bray, “chaplain” of Christian extremists, spoke with the author a few years back on why America is like Nazi Germany, why it’s okay to kill active abortion providers, and what he means when he says he’s “pro-choice.”
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Feared Taliban Leader Killed, But Military Strategy is Not the Answer in Afghanistan
A gathering of senior scholars in the field agree that the US presence in South Asia invokes a colonial legacy and undermines peace.
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Rest in Peace, Sam Huntington
He was a lifelong Democrat, and opposed to the Iraq war, but his theory of the “clash of civilizations” helped to support the neo-con notion of a war on terror.
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The War On Terror Is Over
First of all, the phrase “war on terror” needs to be retired. As a war, it is largely imagined, and as an idea it is ill-conceived. The effect of thinking in terms of global war is to make enemies out of millions of Muslims who would otherwise have been our friends.
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Salaam Obama
An American president addresses a Cairo audience with respect, and with appropriate language. What is truly remarkable is that Obama’s good manners seem remarkable to us.
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