Ever since 9/11, a big problem dividing our free society and confusing our debate about the threats we face has to do with definitions and labels we use to explain our enemy. So far, we have failed to unite in defense of America because Americans have never been clear about what to name that enemy. […]
Trump: Bush going into Iraq and Afghanistan “worst single mistake ever made in the history of our country”
It’s hard to rate and compare mistakes, but Trump is certainly correct that the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were immense mistakes. Bush and his team contended that we would be welcomed as liberators and that Western-style secular republics were going to be established that would become models for the rest of the Islamic world. […]
Robert Spencer Video: Why It Was So Disastrous When Bush Said “Islam Is Peace” After 9/11
In this new video, I explain why President George W. Bush made a disastrous mistake when he proclaimed that Islam was a religion of peace several days after the 9/11 jihad attacks. Preorder The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS here.
Video: Clinton, George W. Bush, Obama promise to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Trump delivers
Why did Clinton, Bush and Obama promise and not deliver? Because they were convinced by “foreign policy experts” that if they moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, “Palestinians” and other Muslims would riot and murder innocent people. They were bowing to naked intimidation, which only encourages and enables those who are doing the intimidating. President […]
Why it was so devastating when George W. Bush said “Islam is peace” right after 9/11
I wrote my forthcoming book The History of Jihad From Muhammad to ISIS mostly chronologically, starting with Muhammad’s conquests in Arabia and moving forward. It’s a bloody history, and one indelible impression one gets from proceeding through the centuries of jihad warfare is of the persistence of the jihadis. They never give up, they never […]
Robert Spencer: Why Is Donald Trump Doing This?
He didn’t have to subject himself to this abuse. My latest at The Geller Report: I have never met Donald Trump, and probably never will, but I have known him all my life. He was always part of the media landscape: the billionaire playboy, the scandals, Marla Maples, the bankruptcy, the comic grandiosity, the glamour […]
George W. Bush hits Trump, says Islamic jihadis “are not religious people”
It’s noteworthy that Bush is speaking out against President Trump, but remained almost completely mum during eight years of Obama. This is because he is an establishment Republican, and the establishment Republicans proved themselves during the 2016 presidential campaign to be partners, colleagues and allies with the Democrats in the Republican establishment, with only Trump […]
9/11 mastermind credits George W. Bush with preventing more jihad attacks in US
Despite the profusion of criticism heaped on George W. Bush for invading Afghanistan, including the myopic comment by Barack Obama that “Americans have learned that it’s harder to end wars than it is to begin them,” 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed “credited” Bush: “‘How was I supposed to know that cowboy George Bush would announce […]
New DNC ad hits GOP for using term “radical Islam”
As the world still reels from jihad mass murder attacks in Paris and Bamako, and Israeli civilians are under daily siege from murderous Islamic jihadists, the Democratic National Committee is trying to make a virtue of willful ignorance, making a hero of the man they relentlessly doused with contempt and hatred for eight years, George […]
Salon: “We are at war with an imaginary Islam”
From Salon comes this particularly lengthy and turgid exercise in Leftist denial of reality. “The United States is at war with a very different, mythic Islam of its own making that has nothing at all to do with this Islam of the Qur’an,” says Raymond William Baker, without bothering to examine the Qur’an at all […]
After $28 billion in aid, US still can’t get Pakistan to confront jihadists
One might almost get the idea that there was too much sympathy for the jihadis in the Pakistani government for it to take any significant action against them, and that this money has been wasted due to a refusal to deal realistically with that fact. But such considerations could be “Islamophobic,” and so it is […]