What is the purpose of war? It’s amazing that decades later no one seems to have learned anything from Afghanistan and Iraq. Gen. Petraeus decided to use the Hamas war to plug his latest book with advice about winning hearts and minds. “In our research of wars of all kinds since World War II, we found that […]
Why Aren’t Our Generals Learning?
Winning battles while losing the war has taught them nothing. [Check out Frontpage’s Disloyal Military series: HERE.] Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. A third of the way into his article, “Afghanistan Did Not Have to Turn Out This Way”, David […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Why the War On Terror Has Taken 15 Years, and Will Take Much Longer
In PJ Media I explain some of the failures that have gotten us into this fix: This war has gone on for a very long time, and last Sunday, the 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 jihad attacks, among all the reminiscences, and eulogies, and encomia, virtually no one attempted to explain why. There’s […]
Video: Robert Spencer: Should we censor ourselves to avoid offending Muslims?
David Petraeus and Larry Summers say we should. I say we shouldn’t, and that to do so is dangerous for a free society. Find out why in this new video.
Petraeus calls for self-censorship to avoid offending Muslims
This is essentially an anti-Trump screed, but it has more sweeping and ominous implications. Petraeus has “grown increasingly concerned about inflammatory political discourse that has become far too common both at home and abroad against Muslims and Islam, including proposals from various quarters for blanket discrimination against people on the basis of their religion.” He […]
Petraeus: Use al-Qaeda jihadis to defeat the Islamic State
This is a tacit admission that the U.S. can’t find enough “moderates” to do the job against the Islamic State, even after spending $500 million to create a “moderate” fighting force. This is an effective admission that not only the Administration’s entire strategy of dealing with the Islamic State, but its entire diagnosis of the […]