Prime Minister Harper’s Mideast trip was going pretty well until I opened the paper and saw him handing Jordan about $100 million. Man. That’s one expensive photo-op. Click here to read the rest.
Apparently the U.S. is putting “pressure” on Israelis and Palestinians to advance the “Mideast peace process.” Pressure, I think, is a colourless, odourless gas that causes journalists to write headlines. But I have no idea what this “peace process” might be. Click here to read the rest.
Urging firm and frank opposition to radical Islam, my colleague Tarek Fatah wrote on Wednesday that we need the same clarity as we had about communism in the Cold War. I say be careful what you wish for. Click here to read the rest.
Apparently there’s this deal with Iran over its nuclear program. Butwe’re not sure if it’s a historic achievement, a historic blunder or just historically trivial.
Even The New York Times has noticed there’s something odd about Barack Obama lurching aimlessly from crisis to crisis like some leftover Halloween zombie unable to find any brains. Click here to read the rest.
What just happened in that mall in Kenya? I know that shouldn’t be such a difficult question. But for a lot of people it apparently is because they just can’t grasp that ideas matter. Click here to read the rest.
In Victorian times they knew what to do when some jungle potentate committed atrocities: Send a gunboat. It worked but, we now realize, was presumptuous, even arrogant. So, in these enlightened multicultural times, we react to Syrian human rights abuses by … um… sending a gunboat. Click here to read the rest.
How did Egyptians get from celebrating the military departure from politics to celebrating its return in just two years? By not appreciating that self-government in the political sense depends on self-government in the personal sense. Click here to read the rest.