Mitt Romney points to his successful business experience as his principal qualification to be president. Others seem to agree. In a story in this newspaper after last week’s Florida Republican primary, Susan Tynan, a retired nurse, said she voted for Mr. Romney because “the biggest corporation in the world is the United States, and Mitt
Robert R. Reilly
This month, in Amman, Jordan, Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiators met for their first time in 15 months to try to restart the “peace process.” Meanwhile, the Palestinian group that rules in Gaza, Hamas, has repeated its declaration: “The battle for the liberation of Jerusalem is closer than ever and, God willing, we will win.”
Projecting Western ideas onto the Arab Spring seriously underestimates the danger of Islamism. Last July Matthew Kaminski opined in the Wall Street Journal that the transition to democracy in the Middle East would be as easy as it was for the democracies that emerged after the fall of the Soviet empire. Alas, this was predictably
Last February, Bernard Lewis, the famous historian of the Middle East, warned that if elections were held early after the Arab spring, “It can only lead to one direction, as it did in [Weimar] Germany, for example,” an allusion to Hitler’s 1933 takeover after gaining a plurality in elections. In this case, Lewis meant not
“When Bin Laden appears on the television tape [recording] and quotes his spiritual mentor Abdullah Azzam and says that “Terrorism is an obligation in Allah’s religion,” I began wondering what kind of theology must this be if terrorism is a religious obligation? And this led me into a ten year study of Islamic theology and
In his op ed (“Acceptance for all Marines,” The Washington Post 9/20/11; see also, “When will Marine leadership stand up for gay service members?“), Darrel Choat wants not only to be able to openly declare in the Marines that he is homosexual (which he can now legally do), but insists that the rest of the military
The extent to which people will go to advance their rationalizations for sexual misbehavior grows ever more amusing and ambitious, with consequences, however, that are less jolly. The ultimate level of absurdity has now been reached by the claim that justice requires the legalization of same-sex marriage. Consider the following two protestations. Celebrating the recent
One could only wish that Matthew Kaminski’s hopes for the Arab Spring (Wall Street Journal 7/26) were on as solid a foundation as he seems to think. But by making such a direct comparison to the democracies that emerged after the fall of the Soviet empire—and by suggesting that this will be as easy a
In Raymond Arroyo’s fascinating EWTN interview with President George W. Bush before the Pope Benedict XVI’s visit, President Bush said some very revealing things about how he views the sources of terrorism and, in general, the world. In two instances, his basically sound instincts led him awry. Both involve issues central to the country’s security,
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