Selected Opinion

The White House conference on “Countering Violent Extremism” represented an expected response. In the face of gruesome killings the gathering asserted the American values of openness, [...]

But the world confronts a radicalized version and vision of Islam that requires a military and political approach. This isn’t something that Washington can fix quickly or [...]

President Barack Obama might have been expected to do everything within his power to vindicate this unprecedented show of international trust. Instead he has presided over a clueless foreign [...]

Egyptian Christians in Libya are hardly “crusaders.” Like Mexican migrant workers in the US, they’re leaving desperate conditions back home and looking for jobs. Not that ISIS [...]

It is a crime which combined an assault on Egyptian nationals on the basis of their nationality, and an attack on Christians on the basis of their religious identity. The victims have been [...]

  Thy name is etched in stone my son By tears that drench the rock On which thy sacred head lay on To don thy blessed frock   Bleed on my heart to wipe the tears Haply shed for martyrs [...]

The event is supposed to showcase President Obama’s leadership against a threat he refuses to identify by name, but the entire world has been watching Islamist jihadists advertise the [...]

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). While the US worked to endow Iraq with the laudable gifts of representative democracy and free markets, its opponents diligently pursued the task [...]