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As my post on Wednesday shows, I was among the few liberals who urged Speaker Nancy Pelosi to defy China by going to Taiwan. I did so because I knew not only that China’s fiery rhetoric was just hot air, but also that Taiwan’s democracy was doomed if China could bully even the United States… Read more.
Albert Einstein is noted for saying that, in the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity. And so, in the midst of the genocidal war Russia is waging in Ukraine and the food and energy shortages that have Sri Lanka reeling, lies great opportunity for China. Specifically, these crises present opportunities for China to finally… Read more.
President Trump received near-universal praise for his state visit to Saudi Arabia in late May. But I found this praise utterly bemusing and delineated the reasons why in “WTF: Saudis Giving Islamophobic Trump the Royal Treatment,” May 20, 2017. Evidently, those praising him didn’t bother to ask why he made this cradle of terrorism his… Read more.
Israel incited worldwide condemnation on Monday after its commandos killed nine pro-Palestinian activists in a raid on their flotilla about 72 miles off the coast of the Gaza Strip. The majority of those killed were Turkish citizens. This prompted Turkey, Israel’s most important ally in the Muslim world, to call it a “bloody massacre”… Read more.
