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Africans selling Africans Like many people, you might think Europeans captured Africans to enslave them in the so-called New World. This, however, is one of history’s greatest misconceptions. After all, for centuries before Europeans set foot on the continent, Africans had been capturing and enslaving fellow Africans. Moreover, they were aping the customary practices of ancient civilizations… Read more.
No doubt you recall widespread media reports on that ragtag bunch of terrorists who attacked the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya on 9/11 last year, killing four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. I tune in to FOX News from time to time for comic relief and reports on the X-files in American politics, in which… Read more.
Frankly, though absurd, it’s hardly surprising that an obscure Internet video by some crackpot depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a blasphemous light would incite ignorant Islamists (redundancy intended) to violent rage. Remember how mere cartoons of Muhammad incited fiery protests throughout the Muslim world a few years ago? These mindless Islamists are as embarrassing to… Read more.
NATO countries bombed Serbia in large measure because the Serbs were ethnically cleansing Muslims from “their” country. Therefore, the unconscionable and untenable irony cannot be lost on NATO leaders that they are now aiding and abetting Libyan rebels who are ethnically cleansing black Africans from their country. Every day these rebels are betraying hints that… Read more.
Much is being made of the fact that President Jacob Zuma refused to meet with First Lady Michelle Obama during her week-long official visit to South Africa and Botswana, which ends on Sunday. Indeed, it’s arguable that he intended to convey a deliberate slight by arranging only for his female minister of prisons to greet… Read more.
The War Powers Act The War Powers Act of 1973 requires US presidents to get congressional consent before committing the military to armed conflict. But almost every president since WWII has ignored this Act. Under the Act, the President can only send combat troops into battle or into areas where ‘imminent’ hostilities are likely, for… Read more.
No doubt you’ve heard President Obama being criticized variously for taking too long to launch military action to aid rebel fighters in Libya and for refusing to target dictator Muammar Gaddafi for assassination. But I thought these criticisms amounted to nothing more than a misguided and irresponsible attempt to goad Obama into war. This is why I… Read more.
Democratic Senator John Kerry, neo-con Republicans, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and the Arab League are all among the strange bedfellows calling for the imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya. They claim that this will give democratic forces a fighting chance against forces loyal to Dictator Muammar Gaddafi – who are now mounting a blitzkrieg… Read more.
Whose next: Abdullah of Saudi Arabia? Abdullah of Jordan? Saleh of Yemen? … Gaddafi of Libya? The prospects make me positively giddy. When Obama spoke of HOPE and CHANGE during his presidential campaign these are not the transformations I anticipated; but I’ll take them. Allah-u-akbar! (Egypt on Fire, The iPINIONS Journal, January 31, 2011) This… Read more.
Arab leaders across the Middle East, including North Africa, are scrambling to prevent the revolutionary contagion that toppled President Ben Ali of Tunisia and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt from infecting their country. Their actions range from the king of Bahrain pleading for calm while warning of an imminent Tiananmen Square-style crackdown to the president of Yemen… Read more.
