Selected Opinion

By Bret Stephens – The Wall Street Journal – We live in the age of the sanctified tantrum—the political and religious furies we dare not name or shame, much less confront. Students [...]

By Judith Miller – FOX News – Republished by Judith Miller  Reuters reported that two employees of Sharm el-Sheikh airport have been detained for questioning after the downing of the [...]

By Roger Cohen – The New York Times – Alliance leaders are already debating what that response should be. Hollande has spoken to President Obama. Other NATO countries, including [...]

By Reuel Marc Gerecht – The Wall Street Journal – Even before the French-born Kouachi brothers went on a shooting rampage at the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine in January, French [...]

By Rasha Elass – Reuters – Until perhaps Friday, the main perception among Western intelligence agencies and Washington policymakers has been that Islamic State poses “no immediate [...]

By Clint Watts – War on the Rocks – President Obama, who has cautiously talked about the glacial progress in the fight against ISIL, proclaimed to ABC News, “From the start our goal [...]

By Mitt Romney – The Washington Post – After Paris, it’s clear: Doing the minimum won’t make us safe. It’s time the president stopped hedging and took meaningful steps to defend us [...]

By Yaroslav Trofimov – The Wall Street Journal – The only reason we didn’t have attacks like Paris before is because they weren’t part of ISIS strategy. Now they are [...]

By Roger Cohen – The New York Times – The Paris slaughter claimed by the Islamic State constitutes, as President François Hollande of France declared, an “act of war.” As such, it [...]

By Daniel Pipes – Philadelphia Inquirer –  Republished by DanielPipes.org As these questions suggest, the people and the professionals are moving in opposite directions, the former to [...]