Over a decade after U.S. leadership declared a “war on terror,” all it has to show for it is the creation of the Islamic State—an Islamic body that has taken terror and atrocities to a whole new level. How did this happen? A key factor often overlooked is the intelligence community’s failures concerning what fuels the […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Why Do So Many Ask “Why Do They Hate Us?”
“So many times I passed by these locations. Why do they hate us so much?” asked Franziska Brantner, a German Green MP and former member of the European Parliament, on Twitter (about the attacks in Brussels). Do you remember Michael Scheuer, that obsessively anti-Israel former “bin Laden desk” expert at the C.I.A., who used to […]
No Happy Ending and No Happy Beginning
“In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.” –Lemony Snickit, from ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ George Jonas, author of Vengeance, has written: “But is there something about Islam that is conductive to the formation of extremist sects and radical […]