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		<title>The New Way to Fight Terror</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[America's new intelligence strategy to disrupt terrorist cells and training operations.]]></description>
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<p>Last September, General David Petraeus, Commander in Chief of the Central Command, signed a seven-page memo authorizing an increase in American special forces operations across his command. Under the order, which was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/world/25military.html?hp">reported</a> by the <em>New York Times</em> last week, American special forces would be able to deploy to countries throughout CENTCOM’s area of responsibility (the Middle East and Africa) to “gather intelligence and build ties with local forces.” They would also gather intelligence “that could pave the way for possible military strikes in Iran.” Notably, the order applies to all countries within the region. Many are at least officially friendly to the United   States, but some, notably Syria and the afore-mentioned Iranian regime, are decidedly unfriendly.</p>
<p>The <em>New York Times</em> report makes for fascinating reading and certainly sounds portentous. But it is important to understand exactly what such an order means (to the extent it is possible to understand a classified document that has not been seen by the general public). General Petraeus has not authorized any attacks or disruptive operations by American forces, he lacks the authority to do so; any major operations would require Washington’s approval. But he has made it possible for American military personnel to function as intelligence operatives, infiltrating countries both hostile and friendly, to assess conditions on the ground and work, perhaps in conjunction with local friendly forces, to disrupt terrorist cells and training operations.</p>
<p>These efforts will provide the United   States with valuable human intelligence in areas where the CIA and other intelligence agencies lack significant resources, and will provide details that even the most advanced satellite or drone cannot possibly detect. While deploying American troops secretly into any country will always carry risks, General Petraeus will not be freelancing any unsanctioned invasions, despite some of <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/25/opinion/main6517976.shtml" target="_blank">alarmed reaction</a> the memo has generated.</p>
<p>These assignments will be dangerous, both for the personnel involved and for the United   States politically, but they should still be applauded. Nine years of warfare in Afghanistan, and now seven years in Iraq, have shown how difficult it is to wage war against diffuse terrorist cells linked only by their ideology, with heavy weapons and mass formations of troops designed to do battle with the Cold War-era Soviet  Union. It took a long time after the shocking attacks of September 11<sup>th</sup> for the American military, as powerful as it is, to adjust to the new kind of war, waged not by billion-dollar battalions, but the courage and ingenuity of small units.</p>
<p>Given the current weaknesses in the American economy, such a shift away from the massive deployments of the last ten years was inevitable. America cannot afford to keep fighting <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100502/ap_on_re_us/us_times_square_car_smoke" target="_blank">attempted car bombers</a> with columns of tanks. Once American forces have left Iraq, and after Afghanistan is stable enough to leave (<a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=3063490" target="_blank">if ever</a>), future battles in the war against Islamist extremism will be waged by these clandestine warriors. By infiltrating extremist hotbeds, they will make possible the same kind of targeted killings of enemy leaders that have of late proven so successful in Pakistan and Yemen.</p>
<p>They will not be enough to defeat militant Islamism, but if kept up at a steady pace, will serve to keep it off balance and offer local governments the chance to develop functional, stable societies of the sort less likely to export fanatical suicide bombers to the West. For that reason, this plan — what we know of it — should be commended. It offers the prospects of tangible benefits to the United   States for relatively little risk.</p>
<p>But the risk is real, not just for the soldiers whose lives will be in danger (though we of course must keep them in our thoughts) but due to the temptation to become overly reliant upon these elite teams at the expense of other, more traditional elements of American military strength. Given the enormous financial pressure the United   States finds itself under, and given the tendency thus far of the current White House Administration and Congress to favor social spending, cutbacks to some elements of American military readiness are inevitable. Until America’s fiscal house can be put back in order, that is simply the bleak reality.</p>
<p>But the cuts made today to save money tomorrow will have an enormous impact for decades to come. Ballistic missile defense, as originally envisioned by the administration of George W. Bush, has already been scrapped, and the orders for advanced navy destroyers and F-22 stealth fighters have been slashed. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates recently got into a <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6460AN20100507" target="_blank">public spat</a> with the Navy over whether or not the United States truly needed 11 aircraft carriers when the rest of the world combined does not have that many. Such debates will undoubtedly become more common in the years ahead, and military leaders and politicians alike must avoid cutting American capabilities too deep on the false assumption that special forces teams can pick up the slack.</p>
<p>To an extent, they can — but only to that extent. Indeed, it is worth noting that the original report on the expanded role for these teams was quite clear that one of their missions is reconnaissance in preparation for a possible American attack against the Iranian nuclear program. That example perfectly illustrates the proper balancing of unconventional special forces and old fashioned heavy firepower. After all, once American special units conducted such preliminary survey missions, it would fall to the Navy and Air Force to blast their way into Iran, destroy their targets, and then deal with the inevitably violent Iranian response.</p>
<p>There is a role for special forces teams in future wars and low-level conflicts, and General Petraeus and the Obama Administration are to be praised for recognizing that. But the best efforts of those brave Americans deployed far from home will be wasted if the United   States does not maintain the striking power to make use of their hard-won information and chooses instead of cut the military too deep to reduce deficits or free up funds for social programs of dubious value.</p>
<p><em>Matt Gurney is an editor at the </em>National Post<em>, a Canadian national newspaper, and writes and speaks on military and geopolitical issues. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:matt@mattgurney.ca" target="_blank">matt@mattgurney.ca</a>. </em></p>
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		<title>Jews Who Cheapen the Holocaust</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why would a Jewish New York Times columnist use the term "Kristallnacht" when talking about American tea partiers?]]></description>
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<p>If there is any group that should know the uniqueness of Nazi evil and should not want the evil of the Holocaust cheapened for political purposes, it is the Jews. Yet, there is at least a 50-50 chance that if you read or hear a public personality use Nazi imagery to describe conservatives, the person is a Jew. Specifically, a Jew on the Left.</p>
<p>Of course, non-Jews on the Left also compare conservatives to Nazis, and some non-Jews on the Right will sometimes compare the Left to Nazis, but there are three important differences.</p>
<p>First, however many or few tea party banners compare President Obama to Hitler (and such comparisons are as reprehensible as they are self-defeating), conservative public figures &#8212; such as politicians and prominent columnists &#8212; almost never compare liberals to Nazis, while public figures on the Left often compare conservatives to Nazis.</p>
<p>Second, among liberal Jews, the percentage that believes that Americans on the Right are just a step or two away from being Nazis seems to be greater than the proportion of liberal non-Jews who believe that.</p>
<p>Third, when Jews on the Left call conservative Americans Nazis, they mean it in its literal sense &#8212; they really do regard the conservatives they compare to Nazis as racists comparable to Nazi anti-Semites. On the other hand, when conservatives use the term, it is meant to signify non-democratic or dictatorial policies, regimes or individuals &#8212; e.g., Seinfeld&#8217;s &#8220;soup Nazi&#8221; or Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s &#8220;feminazis&#8221; &#8212; not as potential or likely mass murderers.</p>
<p>Why is this? Why do so many Jews see conservative/Right-wing Americans as Nazi-like?</p>
<p>The answer lies in the rhetoric of the Left and in Jews&#8217; fears.</p>
<p>Leftist rhetoric routinely depicts opponents of the Left in extreme terms. Opponents of race-based affirmative action are racists. Opponents of same-sex marriage are homophobes. Opponents of illegal immigration are xenophobes, racists and engaged in Nazism (that is the word that Cardinal Roger Mahony used to describe Arizona&#8217;s anti-illegal immigration law). And so on.</p>
<p>But there is an additional explanation for why liberal and Leftist Jews use &#8220;Nazi&#8221; and &#8220;Holocaust&#8221; rhetoric to depict conservatives.</p>
<p>Jews, Right or Left, have been seared by the Holocaust. And most, if not all, believe a Holocaust could happen again &#8212; hardly an idiosyncratic belief given Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad&#8217;s declared aim of annihilating the Jewish state.</p>
<p>Where liberal and conservative Jews differ is where each group thinks the greatest danger to the Jews lies. Jews on the Left are certain that the greatest threats to Jews come from the Right. Conservative and centrist Jews believe that dangers to the Jews can come from the Left, from the Right, from Islam, from a renewal of Christian anti-Semitism, indeed from anywhere, but that at this moment, the world&#8217;s Left is far more an enemy of the Jewish people than the world&#8217;s, not to mention America&#8217;s, Right.</p>
<p>When liberal Jewish columnist Frank Rich of The New York Times wrote recently that tea partiers had engaged a &#8220;small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht,&#8221; he meant it. Kristallnacht (&#8220;Night of the Broken Glass&#8221;) is widely considered the opening act of the Holocaust. In November 1938, in the course of two days, tens of thousands of German Jews were arrested and deported to concentration camps; scores of Jews were beaten to death; 267 synagogues were destroyed; and thousands of Jewish-owned businesses were vandalized.</p>
<p>Why would a New York Times columnist use the term when talking about American tea partiers?</p>
<p>Because when Rich and most other Jews on the Left see Right-wing non-Jews, they see swastikas. It is an inversion of the famous scene in Woody Allen&#8217;s film &#8220;Annie Hall&#8221; in which the WASP character is depicted as seeing the Woody Allen character as a Hasidic Jew. Most American Jews on the Left &#8212; like Leftist professors on college campuses &#8212; inhabit an insular universe, where regular, let alone intimate, contact with conservatives, especially Christian conservatives, is almost non-existent.</p>
<p>Last week, another Jewish liberal, Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., in attacking the tea partiers, specified &#8220;white Christians&#8221; as people who fear members of all other religious and racial groups. And this past September, Grayson, referring to Congress not having passed health care legislation, said on the floor of Congress, &#8220;I apologize to the dead and their families that we haven&#8217;t voted sooner to end this Holocaust in America.&#8221; In Grayson&#8217;s view, 12 percent of Americans not having health insurance constitutes a &#8220;Holocaust.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another liberal Jewish commentator for The New York Times, Linda Greenhouse, who teaches at Yale Law School, likened the situation of illegal immigrants in Arizona to that of the Jews of Nazi-occupied Denmark. As if being deported to Mexico for illegally entering Arizona is comparable to being sent to Auschwitz for being a Danish Jew.</p>
<p>The liberal Jewish former-columnist of the Boston Globe, Ellen Goodman, wrote in 2007, &#8220;Let&#8217;s just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Another Jew on the Left, George Soros, said at the Davos conference in 2007, &#8220;America needs to follow the policies it has introduced in Germany. We have to go through a certain de-Nazification process.&#8221; As Martin Peretz wrote at the time in The New Republic: &#8220;He believes that the United States is now a Nazi country. Why else would we have to go through a &#8216;certain de-Nazification process&#8217;? I defy anybody to interpret the remark differently.&#8221;</p>
<p>And Seth Meyers of &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; asked, referring to the new Arizona law, &#8220;Could we all agree that there&#8217;s nothing more Nazi than saying &#8216;Show me your papers&#8217;?&#8221;</p>
<p>These are only a few examples.</p>
<p>Jews who compare conservative Americans &#8212; tea partiers, global-warming skeptics, supporters of Arizona&#8217;s illegal-immigrant law, former President George W. Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, conservative Christians &#8212; to Nazis and the Holocaust not only smear decent Americans &#8212; who, as it happens, are far more pro-Jewish and pro-Israel than most Americans on the Left &#8212; they also cheapen the horror of Nazism and the Holocaust.</p>
<p>But in the closed world of the Left generally and of the Jewish Left specifically, there is an Auschwitz under almost every conservative bed.</p>
<p>As a Jew who has devoted much of his life to fighting anti-Semitism &#8212; from being sent by Israel to the former Soviet Union to aid Soviet Jews, to writing a book on anti-Semitism (&#8220;Why the Jews? The Reason for Antisemitism&#8221;), to serving on the board of directors of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum &#8212; I have always found any trivialization of Nazism and the Holocaust offensive. That Jews would do this &#8212; to fellow Americans, no less &#8212; and solely in order to serve their Left-wing politics is worse than offensive. It is immoral.</p>
<p>Dennis Prager hosts a nationally syndicated radio talk show and is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is the author of four books, most recently &#8220;Happiness Is a Serious Problem&#8221; (HarperCollins.) His website is <a href="http://www.dennisprager.com/" target="_blank">www.dennisprager.com</a>.</p>
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<p>On March 14, a group called the Muslims  of the Americas (MOA) held a parade in Binghamton, New York, under the banner of its “United Muslim-Christian Forum.” The event sought to bring together Muslims and Christians with mutual respect for Jesus Christ to celebrate the birthday of Mohammed. New Yorkers shouldn’t be fooled by the group’s public relations effort, as the <a href="http://www.christianaction.org/">Christian Action Network</a>, where I serve as the national security advisor, has thoroughly documented its extremism.</p>
<p>Last year, the Christian Action Network released <a href="http://christianaction.org/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=13">&#8220;Homegrown Jihad,&#8221;</a> a documentary about how this group has dozens of isolated communities, including its well-known “Islamberg” headquarters near Hancock, New York that is over 70 acres large. Secret videotape showed the group’s radical Pakistan-based leader, Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, training some of his followers in a range of violent jihadist tactics and making a pitch for followers to receive his guerilla warfare training by going to his Muslims of the Americas sites.</p>
<p>I was later provided with two more tapes, one showing the group’s female recruits receiving such training at “Islamberg” and the other espousing their propaganda, including a declaration that the U.S. is now a Muslim country. These clips were put together into a YouTube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebg6AFylios">video</a> that has since received over 140,000 hits. The evidence we have presented has failed to stop government officials from embracing this group.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.umcforum.org/">website</a> of MOA’s United Muslim-Christian Forum proudly displays a photo of Binghamton’s Mayor Matt T. Ryan holding their sign. This sort of outreach effort by the MOA is not new. The “Islamberg” website has photos of a picnic they had with Christian neighbors, and in August 2008, the FBI and New York State Police <a href="http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/3814">gave awards</a> to the group’s Muslim Scouts of America. In 2005, an FBI Special Agent <a href="http://www.iqou-moa.org/muslim_scouts/index.htm">gave</a> them a note of appreciation.</p>
<p>In 2004, FBI Special Agent in Charge Leslie Wieser <a href="http://www.iqou-moa.org/muslim_scouts/les_weiser.htm">spoke</a> at the graduation of the Muslim Scouts of America at “Holy Islamville” in York County, South Carolina. The website also lists three other FBI Special Agents, the York County Sheriff, and Mayor Eddie Lee as being present at the graduation. Over the past year, I’ve received recordings from a nearby resident of the sound of gunfire coming from the site.</p>
<p>A local news report says that over 700 Muslims and Christians attended the parade from “as far as Canada and the Caribbean,” showing the extent of the MOA infrastructure and the devotion of its members.</p>
<p>The <em>Creeping Sharia</em> blog <a href="http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/militant-muslims-of-america-pulling-out-all-stops-for-ny-parade/">found</a> an advertisement for the event on Scribd.com, asking for donations and people to help bring Christians to the event. It named various other MOA entities including the International Quranic Open University, <em>Islamic Post</em> newspaper, the Muslim Boy Scouts, the Hands to Hands charity, Muslim Vets, and the American Muslim Medical and Relief Team. The MOA has boasted of this last entity’s involvement in relief efforts in Pakistan, particularly after an earthquake in 2005. The Pakistani government apparently views the group with suspicion and is <a href="http://www.iqou-moa.org/iqou/press-release/pakistan-interior-minister-receives-needed-history-lesson.html">refusing</a> to grant visas to two of its doctors previously involved in those efforts.</p>
<p>The document also mentioned two other MOA sites: “Aliville” in Odum, Georgia and “Mahmoudburg” in Texas. It is unclear where “Mahmoudburg” is located, but it is probably in Houston. A Muslim <a href="http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:5Hp9LA17RKAJ:www.gawaher.com/index.php?showtopic=10671+%22mahmoudberg%22&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us&amp;ie=UTF-8">message board</a> refers to a lecturer from there speaking at an event in Houston in 2005. One of MOA’s Da’wah Centers is <a href="http://www.ummah.net/Al_adaab/dawah/directory.html">listed</a> as being in Houston, and other sources have identified a site as being in the city.</p>
<p>Aware of the attention on them, the advertisement for the parade told attendees not to wear clothing that “resembles nonbelievers,” not to speak to members of the press, and not to wear “military-style clothing.”</p>
<p>The Muslims of the Americas are trying to forge links with Christians based on Islam’s belief in Jesus Christ as a prophet that will one day return to earth. Sheikh Gilani explains his stance on Christianity on the website of “Islamberg.” He states that the Koran is the only evidence that Christ ever existed, and <a href="http://islamberg.org/imam_gilani.html">says</a> that “the Jews tried to murder Jesus, son of Mary.” His desire to ally with Christians is at least partially based on his anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Members of the Muslims of the Americas follow Sheikh Gilani as a liaison with Allah. His history of giving his followers paramilitary training, conspiracy theory preaching, and anti-Semitism makes his group unsuitable as a partner for the government and the Christian community. While not all members necessarily believe in violence or receive such training, the <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/more-crazy-talk-from-the-muslims-of-the-americas/">beliefs</a> of their leader who they so passionately follow are not to be embraced.</p>
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		<title>The Times Finds A Lone Crazed Assassin</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the Grey Lady won't tell you about professor Amy Bishop.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html" target="_blank"><em>The New York Times</em>’ front page profile</a> on Saturday of professor Amy Bishop, who allegedly executed three University of Alabama Biology Department colleagues after being denied tenure, appears to be an exhaustively reported piece based on “numerous interviews with colleagues and others who knew her.” It portrays Bishop as violent and unpredictable, rejected by Harvard because of mediocre work and shunned by a series of neighbors and co-workers scared off by the suppressed rage that kept bubbling up to the surfaces of her social life, and also someone who may already have gotten away with the murder of her brother years earlier possibly because of her mother’s political connections in her home town of Braintree, Mass.</p>
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<p>“Between brilliance and rage” is the caption of the photo of Bishop used by the<em> Times</em> for the story, although the piece makes no case for the former.  But is this all the news that is fit to print about the perpetrator of this murder spree in academe?  What about the “family source” who told the Boston Herald that Bishop was,</p>
<blockquote><p>“<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=144&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">a far left</a> political activist who was ‘obsessed’ with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511" target="_blank">President Obama</a> to the point of being off putting”?</p></blockquote>
<p>What about the student who called her a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=115&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">“socialist”</a>? What about one report that Bishop complained about a rule issued by University  of Alabama administrators regarding underclassmen living on campus because she believed it was destructive of “diversity.”  And what about the crowning irony of this case, whether or not she made this complaint: that two of the colleagues she allegedly killed were black and one was South Asian, and that Bishop thus wiped out the 14 person Biology department’s entire diversity in one burst of gunfire?</p>
<p>Considering the politics of Bishop’s <em>ressentiment</em> might have helped fill out the Times’ portrait of a psychopathic time bomb who had already gone off several times in her disordered life on her way to the Big Explosion on February 12 in Huntsville. There is no doubt, as the blogosphere has already noted, that the paper would have pursued even the vaguest hint that Bishop had been a fan of Glenn Beck or was a Tea Party fellow traveler as a major story line. For the Grey Lady, only the politics of the Right is personal.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is assaulting Jewish students on Canadian campuses now legitimate criticism of Israel?]]></description>
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<p>In a country where multiculturalism has a reverent following and criticism of protected minorities has essentially been criminalized as “hate speech,” it is more than ironic that on some Canadian campuses radical students have taken it upon themselves to target one group, Jewish students, with a hatred that is nominally forbidden for any others. And with a recent incident that took place at the beginning of February, York University in particular, has now revealed a troubling pattern of tolerating physical and emotional assaults by pro-Palestinian radicals against Jewish students and others who dare to demonstrate any support for Israel or question the tactics of Islamists in their efforts to destroy the Jewish state.</p>
<p>At a February 1<sup>st</sup> event, Hasbara Fellowships at York  University, with the permission of the University, had set up a table to inform interested students about Hezbollah-kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit as part of Hasbara’s ongoing campaign called “Free Palestinians from Hamas.” Typically, York’s outspoken and volatile pro-Palestinian students were less than willing to let such benign sentiments be aired, and, according to Hasbara’s co-president, Tyler Golden, demonstrated their displeasure by surrounding the table in an angry mob of some 50 activists, spewing forth anti-Semitic and anti-Israel slurs at the Jewish students.</p>
<p>“At around 4 o’clock,” said Golden, “several known anti-Israel faces on campus came to start questioning us and debate with us . . . Security has asked us, when we come across this type of situation, to call them, which we did. We also videotape so they can see the faces and hear the voices of the people that do it. A few students who were surrounding us were upset that there were cameras in their faces, so they started yelling and screaming. As they were trying to push the cameras out of the way, they actually hit two of our students.” Muslim student groups have consistently attempted to disrupt the speeches of guests whose view are considered “unacceptable” because they might cause discomfort or “intimidation” for students unwilling to face the reality of radical Islam and unable to see any villain in the Middle East except Israel.</p>
<p>And the recent brawling at York  University is not the first instance of anti-Israelism gone amuck on that campus. York’s radicalized students had already revealed a rabid anti-Semitic leaning, when in February 2009, some 100 pro-Palestinian students initiated a near-riot, as police had to be called to usher Jewish students to safety after they had been barricaded inside the Hillel offices and were “isolated and threatened” by the physically and verbally aggressive demonstrators.</p>
<p>Parroting the morally-incoherent and factually-defective exhortations of Israel-haters elsewhere of “Zionism equals racism!” and “Racists off campus!” the York mob, members of both the York Federation of Students and Students Against Israeli Apartheid, demonstrated once again that what is positioned as “intellectual debate” on campuses about the Israeli/Palestinian issue has devolved into something that is not really a conversation at all. Rather, it is something more akin to an ideologically-driven shout fest with a new version of pro-Palestinian brown shirts who pretend that they are merely criticizing Zionism but are actually slurring Jews. So York’s supporters of the cult of Palestinianism apparently no longer felt even a bit uncomfortable voicing what was actually on their minds when the subject of Israel comes up: when the York Hillel students were trapped inside locked offices, surrounded by an increasingly violent and aggressive mob, the intellectual “debate” that day included such invidious and raw slurs as “Die Jew―get the hell off campus.”</p>
<p>That thuggery by pro-Palestinian Jew-haters had already become something of a tradition on the York campus. A year earlier in April 2008, Barbara Kay of Canada’s <em>National Post</em> reported, York’s Hillel had invited then-Knesset member Natan Sharansky to deliver an address. Not content with allowing anyone with a pro-Israel viewpoint to shares his or her views on campus, the Palestinian Students Association and Students Against Israeli Apartheid@York (SAIA) used the now common tactic of intellectual bullies on American and Canadian campuses: they jeered at and shouted down Sharansky, spoke loudly among themselves during his talk, and generally prevented anyone in the audience from listening to the content of the speech, but not before they had articulated their own vitriol with such comments as “Get off our campus, you genocidal racist” and “you are bringing a second Holocaust upon yourselves.”</p>
<p>Violence, and threats of violence, against Jewish students during conversations about Israel have occurred at other Canadian universities, as well. At the University of Toronto’s invidious 2009 Israeli Apartheid Week, for instance, the annual event had so devolved into a racist, rabid rally that proceedings were closed to cameras and reporters, and individuals who actually attempted to participate in a dialogue about the issues being raised by the noxious event in the first place were confronted with physical intimidation and threats, encountering the dark side of pro-Palestinianism.</p>
<p>One of these individuals, Isaac Apter, a Jewish alumnus of the University  of Toronto, recounted how he and others in the audience of one evening’s events quizzed a speaker about why Hamas had persistently refused to recognize the legitimacy of Israel—did “Israel have the right to exist?”—and when the speaker side-stepped the questioning repeatedly, some audience members shouted out, “Answer the questions!” Apter found himself approached from behind by a member of a private guard retained by Students Against Israel Apartheid, slapped in the head, yanked from his seat, and yelled at with the warning, “You shut the f&#8211;k up!” A second Jewish attendee was similarly assaulted that night by one of the hired security team and given a far more chilling warning, particularly in light of the barbaric practice of beheadings in the Middle East:<strong> </strong>“Shut the f&#8211;k up or I’ll saw your head off.”  Not only was the Jewish state being attacked and degraded throughout these events, but now Jews themselves were being targeted for emotional and physical assault, an unsurprising outcome of a prolonged, virulent campaign against the concept of Israel as a Jewish state.</p>
<p>University officials regularly proclaim, as they did when they had to defend sponsoring Israeli Apartheid Week,<strong> </strong>that they have a “commitment to the principles of freedom of inquiry, freedom of speech and freedom of association.” But that empty exhortation has shown itself, repeatedly, to be, at best, disingenuous, and, at worst, a masking of their true intention:  enabling favored victim groups to utter vitriol and libel against Israel and Jews, with the pretense that they have somehow encouraged intellectual debate and productive political discussion. This is not scholarship at all; it is Jew-hatred dressed up in academic clothes.<strong> </strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The terrorist who helped bomb Pan Am flight 103 is still alive &#8211; and free &#8211; in Libya nearly six months after Scotland released the mass murderer from prison on &#8220;compassionate&#8221; grounds. Scottish officials had said Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi would die within three months from prostate cancer when they announced they would set him free. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The terrorist who helped bomb Pan Am flight 103 is still alive &#8211; and free &#8211; in Libya nearly six months after Scotland released the mass murderer from prison on &#8220;compassionate&#8221; grounds.</p>
<p>Scottish officials had said Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi would die within three months from prostate cancer when they announced they would set him free.   But nearly six months later, al-Megrahi is still calling in about twice a month from Libya to authorities in Scotland as part of the terms of his release.</p>
<p>&#8220;It has almost become comical,&#8221; said Bert Ammerman who lost his brother in the bombing.  &#8220;I have to laugh that he has to phone in that he is following his probation terms.  This is a complete insult.  Shame on Scotland.  Shame on the White House.&#8221;</p>
<p>Convicted terrorist Megrahi was set free back on August 21.  He had been sentence to life in prison after being convicted in 2001.  When he landed home in Libya, he was greeted by cheering crowds at the Tripoli airport, some waving Libyan and Scottish flags.</p>
<p>Some members of the Scottish Parliament have called on Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill to better explain why a second medical opinion was not sought before deciding to release the terrorist.  MacAskill has responded saying the medical report stating Megrahi was dying of terminal cancer is accurate.</p>
<p>He has claimed the three month window was just an approximation. MacAskill charged critics are &#8220;circling like vultures&#8221; wondering when Megrahi might die.  &#8220;He is going to die.  That is why he was released,&#8221; MacAskill said to Scottish Parliament back in January.</p>
<p>Pan Am Flight 103 was en route from London to New york when a bomb exploded in the cargo hold of the mighty jetliner.  270 people were killed including 259 passengers and crew, and 11 people on the ground in the village of Lockerbie.  Megrahi was convicted of helping hide the bomb in a cassette recorder in a suitcase.</p>
<p>Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had said U.S. officials voiced their objections in advance about Scottish authorities plans to release the terrorist.  &#8220;It is obviously wrong to release someone who has been in prison based on the evidence about his involvement in such a horrendous crime,&#8221; Clinton said.</p>
<p>After he was set free, the FBI Director Robert Mueller blasted MacAskill&amp;apos;s decision.  &#8220;Your action in releasing Megrahi is as inexplicable as it is detrimental to the cause of justice. Indeed your action makes a mockery of the rule of law,&#8221; Mueller wrote.</p>
<p>Some victim&amp;apos;s families have charged Megrahi&amp;apos;s release was tied to future oil deals between British oil companies and the Libyan government.  Those allegations have been vehemently denied by British officials and spokesmen for oil firms like British Petroleum.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/Still-Alive-Pan-Am-Bomber-6-Months-of-Freedom--84394717.html">Six Months Later, Pan Am Bomber is Still Alive | NBC New York</a>.</p>
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		<title>Frank Rich and the State of Liberal Commentary</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[No well-known leftist columnist better exemplifies the worst aspects of today's left. ]]></description>
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<p>If one had to read one columnist to appreciate the state of contemporary  left-wing commentary, my nomination would be Frank Rich of the Sunday New York  Times.</p>
<p>No well-known leftist columnist better exemplifies the worst aspects of  today&#8217;s left. Virtually every piece is filled with anger, filled with ad hominem  responses to arguments, filled with insults of opponents and at the same time  devoid of intellectual arguments. A Frank Rich column is essentially a weekly  tantrum meant to make his readers nod in agreement and reinforce their contempt  for those who differ with them.</p>
<p>I offer this past Sunday&#8217;s column as an example.</p>
<p>The subject was the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; policy regarding gays in the  military.</p>
<p>Not a single serious argument of proponents of DADT was cited, nor did  Rich did offer a single argument on behalf of repealing it. Instead, the article  was a smear of all supporters of that policy or of retaining the male-female  definition of marriage. The article contains 71 sentences. Twelve sentences  contained an insult. I suspect that Times readers who love his columns &#8212; this  was listed as the second most e-mailed piece in the New York Times &#8212; are  generally people who read Frank Rich so as to have their hatreds reinforced, not  for cogent arguments.</p>
<p>The article&#8217;s title is, appropriately, an insult: &#8220;Smoke the Bigots Out  of the Closet.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is commonplace for liberals and leftists to avoid refuting  conservative arguments and just dismiss the conservative with one of seven  epithets: &#8220;Racist,&#8221; &#8220;Bigoted,&#8221; &#8220;Sexist,&#8221; &#8220;Intolerant,&#8221; and the three phobias:  &#8220;Homophobic,&#8221; Xenophobic,&#8221; &#8220;Islamaphobic.&#8221;</p>
<p>Such ad hominem dismissals of conservatives and their arguments testify  to the shallowness of those using these terms, meaning, unfortunately, most  mainstream commentators and spokesmen on the left. The fact is that epithets  substitute for thought &#8212; and at the same time render it easy to write a  left-wing column. It is the Frank Rich Formula: make believe the other side has  no thoughtful argument, offer no argument of your own and debase your  opponents.</p>
<p>Some examples from just this one column:</p>
<p>RICH: &#8220;&#8230; there is now little political advantage to spewing  homophobia.&#8221;</p>
<p>RICH: (CNN allowed conservative spokesmen to express) &#8220;old homophobic  cliches.&#8221;</p>
<p>RICH: &#8220;Such arguments &#8230; are mere fig leaves to disguise the phobia that  can no longer dare speak its name. &#8230; (T)he flimsy rhetorical camouflage must  be stripped away to expose the prejudice that lies  beneath.&#8221;</p>
<p>RICH: &#8220;Those opposing same-sex marriage are just as eager to mask their  bigotry.&#8221;</p>
<p>RICH: &#8220;The more bigotry pushed out of the closet for all voters to see  &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>RICH: &#8220;&#8230; the deep prejudice at the root of their (Republicans&#8217;)  arguments.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here are the usual charges of &#8220;homophobia,&#8221; &#8220;prejudice,&#8221; and  &#8220;bigotry.&#8221;</p>
<p>But  also note &#8220;spewing&#8221; because Rich almost never describes conservatives as  speaking normally: In this column alone, they &#8220;spew,&#8221; Sen. Orrin Hatch &#8220;vamped&#8221;  and John McCain &#8220;huffed,&#8221; &#8220;fulminated&#8221; and was &#8220;yapping.&#8221; No conservative  &#8220;says,&#8221; or &#8220;claims&#8221; or &#8220;argues.&#8221; Conservatives spew, vamp, huff, fulminate and  yap. Do Charles Krauthammer, George Will, Thomas Sowell or any other  conservative commentators meant to be taken as seriously as the left takes Rich  use such verbs to describe the speech of prominent liberals? I doubt it. The  gulf in depth of thought and sophistication of expression between Frank Rich and  virtually every mainstream conservative columnist is  enormous.</p>
<p>(I did a 30-day search of the words &#8220;spew&#8221; and &#8220;spewed&#8221; on the Washington  Post and New York Times websites, and every single time they were used, it was  by a liberal writer talking about conservatives.)</p>
<p>RICH: (Conservatives who oppose repeal of DODT are) &#8220;attack dogs.&#8221;</p>
<p>RICH: (McCain is) &#8220;the crazy man in  Washington &#8216;s attic.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rich also called McCain &#8220;unpatriotic&#8221; in his previous column &#8212; a  particularly ugly charge given McCain&#8217;s heroic sacrifices for    America .</p>
<p>RICH: &#8220;Karl Rove and George W. Bush ran a national campaign (in 2004)  exploiting fear of gay people &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Rich provided no example. For good reason. Bush did not run &#8220;a national  campaign exploiting fear of gay people&#8221; in 2004 (or any other year). What Bush  called for in 2004 was a constitutional amendment to define marriage as the  union of a man and a woman. In fact, Bush took his own party to task for not  supporting civil unions for same-sex couples. It is mendacity &#8212; indeed it is a  smear &#8212; to label what Bush advocated &#8220;a national campaign exploiting fear of  gay people.&#8221; But to Rich and his supporters anyone &#8212; anyone &#8212; who thinks  marriage should be defined as the union of a man and a woman is a fear-mongering  bigot.</p>
<p>RICH: &#8220;Now that explicit  anti-gay animus is an albatross, those who oppose gay civil rights are driven to  invent ever loopier rationales for denying those rights, whether in the military  or in marriage.&#8221;</p>
<p>RICH: &#8220;The arguments for preserving &#8216;don&#8217;t ask&#8217; have long been blatantly  groundless.&#8221;</p>
<p>Where is this mainstream conservative &#8220;explicit anti-gay animus?&#8221; And why  are the arguments that gays in a military unit may fall in love with one another  (or with a straight person) or that for the same reason &#8212; sexual tension &#8212;  that we do not have men and women in the same units, showering and sleeping  together, we might not deem it a good idea to have sexual tension in an  all-men&#8217;s unit &#8212; why are these arguments &#8220;loopy&#8221; and &#8220;groundless&#8221;? This  conservative columnist and talk show host does not find liberal arguments for  admitting open gays into the military either loopy or groundless. But contrary  to the left&#8217;s self-image, conservatives are far more likely to acknowledge two  sides to this and so many other issues.</p>
<p>The truth is that it is Frank Rich who spews, fulminates, yaps and huffs.  Every Sunday in the New York Times. His column is idea-free, but his readers  want catharsis, not ideas.</p>
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		<title>The New Attack on Palin? Associate Her with John Edwards</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The obsessive attacks on Palin take yet another morbid turn. ]]></description>
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<p>Wednesday, February 3, 2010, marked a new turn in the obsessive attacks on Sarah Palin: associating  her with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=631" target="_blank">John Edwards</a>.</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/grifters-tale/" target="_blank"><em>New York Times</em></a> Timothy Egan sees them as a pair of ethically similar “grifters” using populism to con the American voter–“playing to outrage while taking care of themselves.” In Egan’s view, both ginned up and profited from fears among a broad segment of the public who increasingly resent the success and power of the elites and feel that “America is passing them by.”</p>
<p>Edwards did this an arrant fashion by tearing the labels off his Armani suits and driving someone else’s clunker to rallies where he preached his blow-dried version of class warfare.  Now Palin is doing the same thing, Egan believes, by “charging Tea Partiers $100,000 to stoke their fears.”  (Yes, she has promised to plow her take back into “the cause,” but Egan assumes that she is a cynic whose only cause is herself.)</p>
<p>The comparison between the pair is asymmetrical and tendentious.  Egan doesn’t consider Edwards’ banality of evil—notably the lying treachery committed against wife and family, and friends and supporters.  But while  Palin’s failings, notably her “incoherence” and her lack of response to Glenn Beck when he asked about her favorite founding father, are not in any way equivalent to Edwards’ evil, they are more fully explored. It’s clear by the end of his piece that Egan isn’t really comparing the two at all, but using Edwards’ nastiness to make Palin seem sleazy by association.</p>
<p>Andrew Sullivan posted a nuttier but more interesting piece on Palin   and Edwards on his blog on thursday   titled <a href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/02/my-john-edwards-failure.html" target="_blank">“My John Edwards Failure.”</a></p>
<p>He begins by acknowledging that he committed a double standard treating Palin harshly and giving a pass to Edwards.  But then he immediately reassures the reader that this doesn’t mean he is “backtracking” on Palin.  In fact, says Sullivan,</p>
<blockquote><p>“All I regret is not being  able to expose her for real yet.”</p></blockquote>
<p>A surprising admission of failure by someone who has spent the last year and a half obsessing on her private parts, producing sick innuendoes about her family, and licking his chops over the dull normal baby daddy, Levi Johnston, and the big revelation he’s supposedly getting ready to deliver. Hasn’t he run her to ground yet? What more could Sullivan have done to her after months of subjecting her to the blog equivalent of waterboarding?</p>
<p>In the rest of his post—about his deficiencies is not getting  the Edwards story—he cultivates a weepy tone while making a very big deal out of an inessential disclosure.  He ignored the Edwards story, he says, because of his “leeriness of investigating people’s sex lives” (obviously he made an exception in Palin’s case).  Then he grandiosely struts his “sensitivity” by saying that he also “felt protective toward Elizabeth” whom he didn’t want to hurt at a time when she was “faced with mortality” and that he grieved over her loss of a child.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that he made a mistake “in making an assumption of a baseline of decency in public officials” and won’t do it again. Of course this assumption never did apply to Palin whom Sullivan has been lighting up—especially on the circumstances of Trig’s birth–during all those months when he was studiously ignoring Edwards.</p>
<p>What we can take away from this jive confession is that Sullivan will feel it his duty to concentrate his fire even more fiercely on Palin now that he has “learned” from his kid glove treatment of Edwards.</p>
<p>As if he needed a justification to continue this loony quest.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Jamie Glazov exposes the hypocrisy of leftists and liberals who claim to champion the principles of liberalism and feminism.]]></description>
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<p><strong>[This review is reprinted from <a href="http://www.meforum.org/meq/issues"><em>Middle East Quarterly</em></a>]</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Jamie Glazov, editor of<em> FrontPageMag.com</em>, exposes the hypocrisy of leftists and liberals who claim to champion the principles of freedom, democracy, liberalism, and feminism yet support both communist and Islamist dictatorships, which implement none of these principles.</p>
<p>David Horowitz, Glazov&#8217;s boss, also wrote a book in 2004, <em>Unholy Alliance, </em>on this subject, but Glazov digs deeper. The author, who fled the Soviet Union as a child and earned a PhD from York Univeristy in Toronto in Soviet studies, points in the first 100 pages of the book to a nucleus of American apologists in the 1930s who heaped praise on communist strongman Joseph Stalin, including Walter Duranty of <em>The New York Times</em> and author Upton Sinclair. In the generation that followed, intellectuals including novelist Normal Mailer and feminist activist Simone de Beauvoir continued to apologize for communist regimes in Cuba, China, Nicaragua, and Vietnam.</p>
<p>With the decline of communism, the Left began to support Islamism. Whereas journalists, novelists and activists led the charge in the first wave, Glazov explains in the second half of the book, the most vociferous defenders of Islamism now come from the Ivory Tower.</p>
<p>After the Iranian revolution in 1979, French philosopher Michel Foucalt, who enjoyed stints at the University of Buffalo and University of California Berkeley, lauded Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as a &#8220;saint.&#8221; The late English professor Edward Said, famous for his anti-Western philosophy, Orientalism, became a popular apologist for Palestinian Islamist violence in the 1990s. In 2001, Rutgers University English professor, Barbara Foley, called the 9-11 attacks a legitimate response to the &#8220;fascism&#8221; of U.S. foreign policy. In 2006, Noam Chomsky, an M.I.T. linguistics professor, lauded Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, whose group calls for the destruction of America and Israel.</p>
<p>What Glazov does not explicitly note is that the foremost apologists for Islamism in the universities are the specialists in Middle Eastern Studies. From Columbia&#8217;s Rashid Khalidi to Georgetown&#8217;s John Esposito, the field has become overwrought with professor-activists who now rationalize Islamism to new generations of students.</p>
<p>But, Glazov provides ample proof that the professors are not alone. Filmmaker Michael Moore likened Iraqi terrorists to &#8220;minutemen.&#8221; Media mogul Ted Turner reported lauded the 9/11 hijackers as &#8220;brave.&#8221; And, of course, former U.S. president Jimmy Carter met Hamas leader Khaled Meshal, against the wishes of the U.S. State Department, and now seeks to engage in diplomacy with the group best known for suicide bombing.</p>
<p>Glazov&#8217;s lucid and compelling book would be strengthened by distinguishing more clearly between liberal-Left and far-Left. Indeed, not everyone who identifies with the former supports the ideals of the latter. Still, <em>United in Hate</em> highlights an important and disturbing trend that has made the battle of ideas against Islamists and despots that much harder to win.</p>
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		<title>The War of the Weak</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the media’s spin, the Taliban is losing the fight in Afghanistan. ]]></description>
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<p>Terrorism is the weapon of the weak. The Taliban proved that once again last Monday with its attack on the government quarter in central Kabul. The attack killed 12 people, including seven terrorists, and left 71 people wounded. One of the dead was a five-year old boy that the Taliban fatally shot.</p>
<p>The main target of the latest Taliban assault on Kabul was the central bank, located next to the presidential palace. A suicide bomber tried to enter the bank but was shot by security before he could get inside. Other terrorists seized a shopping mall, ordering all vendors to leave, before taking up positions on the top floor and shooting it out for several hours with Afghan security forces before being killed. But the Taliban showed its particular revolting talent for death and destruction a few blocks away, where another suicide bomber detonated a vehicle disguised as an ambulance in front of the Ministry of Education, setting off a whirlwind of debris.</p>
<p>The purpose of the attack, like most other terrorist operations, was to get the attention of the international media. The Taliban are very media savvy and know that by targeting the well-protected government quarters in a city hosting a lot of foreign journalists, they would achieve their goal of capturing headlines worldwide, at least for a couple of days.</p>
<p>By penetrating Kabul’s defenses and staging such spectacular assaults (this is the third Taliban attack in the capital since last October), the Taliban also hoped to appear more powerful in the eyes of the world press than they really are. As one observer wrote, “The Taliban are using terrorism as a means of communication.”</p>
<p>Some in the media did fall for the Taliban’s propaganda line. <em>The New York Times</em>, for example, headlined its story about Monday’s assault, &#8220;Kabul Attack Shows Resilience of Afghan Militants&#8221;. In reality, it was Kabul’s inhabitants who were the resilient ones. The <em>Times</em> later reported merchants returned to their booths in the shopping mall and were conducting their business the day after the attack.</p>
<p>A Canadian national newspaper, <em>The Globe And Mail</em>, mistakenly saw in the Taliban assault a weakening of the Afghan presidency, titling its report, ‘The War at Karzai’s door: Kabul strike shows a leader losing grip.”</p>
<p>But rather than a show of strength, last Monday’s suicide attack was actually a sign of Taliban weakness. After nearly ten years the Taliban have not made any headway militarily in expelling the foreign troops from Afghanistan, let alone make good on their annual promise to capture Kabul. And due to the professionalism and toughness of NATO and American soldiers, the Taliban rarely stand up to them in battle, relying instead on IEDs and suicide bombers.</p>
<p>While suffering a disproportionate number of casualties of their own, the Taliban have also inflicted only a low rate of casualties on American troops. In Afghanistan, casualties have never been as high as they were in Iraq at the Iraq war’s worst point and are only a third the rate of those of Vietnam and World War Two.</p>
<p>IEDs and Kabul-like suicide attacks will also, like in Iraq, never gain the Taliban a military victory. One military analyst calls Islamic suicide bombers “an overrated tool”, saying they are reminiscent of Japan’s kamikazes that also sought to demoralize an overpowering enemy, but also failed. Unlike the Taliban’s suicide bombers, though, the kamikazes only attacked military targets.</p>
<p>Some Western media analysts stated the Taliban on Monday were also sending “a clear message” to the Afghan people that their government can’t protect them, since it can’t even protect itself from attack.</p>
<p>However, what concerned Kabul’s inhabitants after the Taliban assault, according to a <em>New York Times</em> story yesterday, was not their future security but rather the fact that bribery may have allowed the terrorists to bypass all the security checkpoints leading to their city. Corruption, they believed, is the only explanation for how the terrorists were able to enter the city with all their military equipment. “The government has police, intelligence guards and army soldiers in all the crossroads, so how can these people get in?,” wondered one Kabul resident, quoted in the <em>Times</em> story.</p>
<p>A report released on Tuesday by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), confirms that corruption is not only the main concern among Kabul’s inhabitants, but of all Afghans countrywide. More than security or unemployment, a UNODC survey showed the bribes ordinary Afghans are forced to pay government officials, teachers, doctors and judges are their chief complaint.</p>
<p>The average bribe, according to the report, is about $160; and Afghans on average paid a bribe two out of every five times they dealt with a government employee. In all, Afghans pay an astounding $25 billion annually in bribes, a quarter of their country’s economic output. “Bribery is a crippling tax on people who are already among the poorest the world’s poorest,” said the UNODC’s executive director.</p>
<p>It is here, in the area of corruption, that an analyst for the military news publication <em>Strategy Page</em> says the “real battle” in Afghanistan is being fought. The daily struggle against “poverty, illiteracy, ignorance and corruption” is the “real war.” But this all-important side of the conflict is not being covered by a foreign media distracted by the noise of battle.</p>
<p>It is this aspect of the war, however, that will probably decide the fate of Afghanistan. Such corruption left unchecked will cause Afghans to lose all confidence in their institutions to the point where the United Nations has warned it could topple the government. It is also this corruption and grinding poverty that supplies the Taliban and drug gangs with “a steady stream” of gunmen.</p>
<p>The Obama administration should be put almost unbearable pressure on President Karzai at the upcoming Afghanistan security conference in London next week to tackle the corruption morass. An honest, efficient government is the most important factor in Afghanistan moving forward, both militarily and economically, as well as a guarantee Afghanistan will not return to the terrorist state it once was.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a week since Port-au-Prince was destroyed by an earthquake. In the days ahead, Haitians will undergo another trauma as rescue efforts struggle, and often fail, to keep pace with unfolding emergencies. After that—and most disastrously of all—will be the arrival of the soldiers of do-goodness, each with his brilliant plan to save Haitians [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>It&#8217;s been a week since Port-au-Prince was destroyed by an earthquake. In the days ahead, Haitians will undergo another trauma as rescue efforts struggle, and often fail, to keep pace with unfolding emergencies. After that—and most disastrously of all—will be the arrival of the soldiers of do-goodness, each with his brilliant plan to save Haitians from themselves.</p>
<p>&#8220;Haiti needs a new version of the Marshall Plan—now,&#8221; writes Andres Oppenheimer in the Miami Herald, by way of complaining that the hundreds of millions currently being pledged are miserly. Economist Jeffrey Sachs proposes to spend between $10 and $15 billion dollars on a five-year development program. &#8220;The obvious way for Washington to cover this new funding,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;is by introducing special taxes on Wall Street bonuses.&#8221; In a New York Times op-ed, former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush profess to want to help Haiti &#8220;become its best.&#8221; Some job they did of that when they were actually in office.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704541004575010860014031260.html">Bret Stephens: To Help Haiti, End Foreign Aid &#8211; WSJ.com</a>.</p>
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<p>Did Saddam Hussein&#8217;s fall and the formation of a fledging democracy in Iraq encourage and embolden regime-threatening dissent in Iran?</p>
<p>The anti-Iraq War crowd, many of whom suffer from Give-George-W.-Bush-No Credit-for-Anything Disease, says, &#8220;No, of course not.&#8221; How dare anyone even suggest that the former President was correct, if not about the rightfulness of the war itself, then about his argument that a &#8220;free and peaceful&#8221; Iraq would provide a &#8220;dramatic and inspiring example&#8221; to the Middle East and the Muslim world. Good Lord!</p>
<p>The Iraq War-achieved-zero crowd begrudged Bush nothing even after the democratic Cedar Revolution in Lebanon. Never mind that Walid Jumblatt, a Lebanese Druze Muslim leader, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting (in 2005), 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world.&#8221;</p>
<p>As to Iran, The New York Times quoted a pundit-blogger who, when protests began this past summer, wrote, &#8220;(N)o Iranian &#8230; has mentioned Iraq as an inspiration for the demonstrations, nor has any leader of their opposition cited their Iraqi neighbors as a model or a source of guidance.&#8221;</p>
<p>None?</p>
<p>Meet Mohsen Kadivar. In May 2004, Time magazine profiled this Iranian intellectual in a flattering article called &#8220;The Critical Cleric — Reclaiming Islam for a New World.&#8221; Newsweek called him a global leader &#8220;to watch in 2005.&#8221; His criticism of the Iranian regime landed him in jail. He now teaches at Duke University, and PBS&#8217;s Charlie Rose interviewed him in July.</p>
<p>What does this cleric says about Iraq&#8217;s possible influence on his native country? In February 2005, he said: &#8220;I think the Iraqis can make what we wanted to create but were unsuccessful: a real Islamic Republic. By that I mean a republic with Islamic values, democracy with Islamic values &#8230; (where) the clergy has no special rights. If they have a good government with Islamic democracy and without any special or divine rights for the clergy, the Iranian government won&#8217;t be able to justify its situation to the Iranian citizens.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meet Mashallah Shamsolvaezin. In 2000, this Iranian journalist received an International Press Freedom Award but could not attend the formal dinner honoring him. Shamsolvaezin was then sitting in a Tehran prison for the crime of &#8220;insulting Islamic values.&#8221; The authorities shut down several publications that he edited. Just days ago, he and several other journalists were arrested in Iran.</p>
<p>What did he say about Iraq&#8217;s possible influence on Iran? &#8220;The Shi&#8217;as in Iraq have accepted the notion of having a secular government, and they are slowly moving toward the democratization of their country — free elections, democratic institutions, a free press.</p>
<p>All of this in and of itself will have an impact on the situation in Iran.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meet Mohsen Sazegara. This Revolutionary Guard co-founder and former Islamic Republic supporter became a critic. He attempted to run for president of Iran, but authorities denied his application. He spent three months in jail for opposing the regime. He now lives in the United States and faces more prison time should he return to his country.</p>
<p>What did he say about Iraq&#8217;s possible influence on Iran? &#8220;I personally hope that Iraq&#8217;s (transition to democracy) will be completed successfully so that it can also help our nation. For sure, neighbors with democratic governments are much better for us than dictators such as Saddam Hussein or backward groups such as the Taliban &#8230; . Our young generation in particular has shown &#8230; that it has a strong desire for democracy, human rights and civil society, and a strong desire to join the international (community). And when democratic changes take place in our neighboring and brother country Iraq, with its many ties to us, it encourages our youth, and emboldens our young people to ask for change in our current constitution.&#8221;</p>
<p>In truth, the anti-Iraq War/Bush-hating left despises the former President far more than do the Iranians.</p>
<p>Almost two years after we entered Iraq, Iranians, according to a 2004 BBC poll, preferred Bush (52 percent) over John Kerry (42 percent) in the U.S. presidential elections. When asked whether the U.S. should get out of the Middle East, only 20 percent of Iranians said yes.</p>
<p>In May 2004, New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof traveled to Iran. He wrote: &#8220;Everywhere I&#8217;ve gone in Iran &#8230; people have been exceptionally friendly and fulsome in their praise for the United States, and often for President Bush as well. &#8230; Indeed, many Iranians seem convinced that the U.S. military ventures in Afghanistan and Iraq are going great, and they say this with more conviction than your average White House spokesman.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Iraq War and fledging democracy continue to pay dividends. It helped convince Libya&#8217;s strongman to surrender his WMD. It helped inspire a democratic movement in Lebanon. And it may, just may, help to bring down an Islamofascist government that is the leading exporter of terrorism — before it gets a nuclear bomb.</p>
<p>Just as the &#8220;neo-cons&#8221; had hoped.</p>
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		<title>How a New York Times Columnist Hurts Fellow Blacks &#8211; by Dennis Prager</title>
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<p>If you had hope that the election of a black president might improve black-white relations in America, reading the column by Charles M. Blow in Saturday&#8217;s New York Times will effectively crush it.</p>
<p>Mr. Blow, who is black, wrote of his despair that the election of Barack Obama will achieve anything positive for blacks or for black-white relations.</p>
<p>In fact, according to Mr. Blow, and one suspects the great majority of black and white liberals, things have not only not gotten better for blacks, racism — meaning, of course, white racism against blacks since no other form of racism is discussed in the New York Times — has actually increased.</p>
<p>His proof for this charge?</p>
<p>&#8220;We are now inundated with examples of overt racism on a scale to which we are unaccustomed.&#8221;</p>
<p>And what are his examples of &#8220;overt racism on a scale to which we are unaccustomed&#8221;? He provided two.</p>
<p>The first and presumably most important is that &#8220;Racially offensive images of the first couple are so prolific online that Google now runs an apologetic ad with the results of image searches of them.&#8221;</p>
<p>Having never seen a racially offensive image of the first couple, I was curious about what Mr. Blow was referring to. Though I spend hours a day researching on the Web, I had somehow overlooked how &#8220;inundated&#8221; the Web is with racist images. Luckily, Mr. Blow provides a URL — an Internet link — to make his case.</p>
<p>I clicked on the link, and sure enough, there is a statement by Google titled &#8220;An explanation of our search results,&#8221; in which Google notes that &#8220;Sometimes Google search results from the Internet can include disturbing content, even from innocuous queries. We assure you that the views expressed by such sites are not in any way endorsed by Google.&#8221;</p>
<p>The statement continues along those lines, but there is not a word about racism, blacks, the first couple, or anything related. It is a generic apology, one that I had never in fact encountered.</p>
<p>So not having had any luck corroborating Mr. Blow&#8217;s accusation of &#8220;overt racism on a scale to which we are unaccustomed&#8221; on the Internet, I searched &#8220;first couple,&#8221; clicked on &#8220;images,&#8221; even making sure that the Google filter was turned off, and all I saw were hundreds of beautiful images of the beautiful-looking first couple.</p>
<p>I then searched on &#8220;Michelle and Barack Obama pictures&#8221; and got similar results.</p>
<p>One must conclude that Mr. Blow wildly exaggerated, if not made it up, when he wrote that America is &#8220;inundated&#8221; with &#8220;overt racism&#8221; on the Internet (or anywhere else).</p>
<p>His second argument for an increasingly racist America is: &#8220;And it&#8217;s not all words and images (again, none of which I saw); it&#8217;s actions as well. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation&#8217;s 2008 hate crimes data released last week, anti-black hate crimes rose 4 percent from 2007&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Wow. A 4 percent increase in anti-black hate crime.</p>
<p>Is that an indication of a major increase in anti-black racism in America? You decide.</p>
<p>According to the FBI Hate Crime statistics, in 2007, 3,434 blacks were victims of a hate crime, and in 2008, the number increased to 3,596 — an increase of 162. Given that there are about 40 million blacks in America and about 260 million non-blacks, to charge America with increasing racism based on an increase of 162 incidents of racism is absurd and morally indefensible. To put it statistically, the increase, as a proportion of the black population, was .0004 percent.</p>
<p>Moreover, the number itself, 3,434, is incredibly small for such a large population. And bear in mind two additional factors: One has no way of knowing how many of those 3,434 incidents were committed by non-whites, such as Hispanics; and of those 3,434 hate crimes, a total of one was murder, not one was a rape, a tiny 386 were aggravated assaults, and 1,257 were &#8220;acts of intimidation,&#8221; not acts of violence.</p>
<p>Only to black and white liberals, including most New York Times readers, who e-mailed Mr. Blow&#8217;s column more than almost any article in the Times, do these statistics describe a racist, or increasingly racist, society.</p>
<p>The column is a fine example of liberal attitudes toward blacks and whites — the latter are largely racist, the former are largely victims. It is a picture that exists only in the liberal mind, but as long as so many blacks believe it, there is little hope for large-scale black progress at this time. There is no chance that black America&#8217;s economic or social problems will be solved until black America rejects the liberal narrative of endemic white racism and black victimization. That is why, though Mr. Blow&#8217;s column is a calumny against America, it mainly damages his fellow African-Americans.</p>
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<p>Watching the left attempting to undo the greatness of American medicine  and dismantle the unprecedentedly powerful American economic engine built almost  entirely on non-governmental entrepreneurial effort, I realize once again that  the left is far better at destroying than building.</p>
<p>I first  realized this as I watched the left &#8212; and here I sadly include the whole  organized left from liberal to far left &#8212; do whatever it could to destroy one  of the most wonderful organizations in American life, the Boy Scouts of     America . From Democratic city  governments to the New York Times and other liberal editorial pages to the most  destructive organization on the left, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),  there has been the most concerted effort to break the Boy  Scouts.</p>
<p>When challenged about this, fellow Americans on the left respond that  this is a false accusation, that they have no desire to destroy the Boy Scouts,  only to coerce the organization into accepting as scouts and scout leaders boys  and men who have announced they are gay.</p>
<p>This is not an honest response, however, because the left is in fact  doing whatever it can to destroy the Boy Scouts until the Boy Scouts change  their policy on gays. The left-wing position is that if the Boy Scouts do not  change a policy that has been in place since the inception of the organization,  they do not deserve to exist.</p>
<p>Therefore it is entirely accurate to state that the left wishes to  destroy the Boy Scouts as that organization now exists. No matter how much good  the Boy Scouts have done and continue to do for millions of boys, for the left,  all this good amounts to nothing.</p>
<p>For the  left in this instance, as in most instances, the attitude is: Destroy the  imperfect in order to build the perfect.</p>
<p>There is  no left-wing Boy Scouts. The left knows best how to crush the non-left Boy  Scouts, but it has never made a boys organization of its  own.</p>
<p>Likewise  with individual lives devoted to the poor. Sure, there are secular and left-wing  organizations devoted to the poor, but the individuals who give up their lives  to the poorest in America and the world, like the members of Salvation Army at  home and the Mother Teresas abroad, are overwhelmingly religious (and to be  fair, Christian).</p>
<p>I just  spent Thanksgiving week in  Zambia and benighted  Zimbabwe with my  teenage son to help an organization give out mosquito nets and seed to the  poorest of the poor. The organization that brought us there, Rock of Africa, is  a Christian organization that works with the destitute in  Zimbabwe . As  with a larger, also Christian-based, organization that I have worked with for  nearly two years (full disclosure: It periodically sponsors my radio show), Cure  International, all those affiliated with the organization get nothing or almost  nothing for their work.</p>
<p>Why do the doctors who work at, and those who build, Cure International’s  hospitals in places like  Honduras ,  Uganda and  Afghanistan and  the volunteers of Rock of Africa do their work? Because they believe that their  faith demands that they do (I have no religious agenda here, as I am Jewish, not  Christian). The number of Christians and Christian organizations doing  self-sacrificing work around the world is large and impressive. Now, there are  also secular organizations doing magnificent work in the poorest parts of the  world &#8212; Doctors Without Borders is a well-known example &#8212; but I would bet that  the number of religious individuals who give their lives for virtually no pay to  the worst off in  America and around the world is far  greater than the number of irreligious individuals.</p>
<p>And just  as there is no left-wing Boy Scouts, there is no Salvation Army built and manned  by people with left-wing values. Nor has there ever been a left-wing country as  magnanimous, as willing to die for others, as opportunity-giving to people from  all over the world, as  America , whose greatness comes from  its traditional secular values and its Judeo-Christian values. As with the Boy  Scouts, the left can bring an  America down, but it cannot build  one.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[EDUCATION BA English l96l (cum laude) UC Berkeley. MA English l963 UC Berkeley. TEACHING l963-69&#8211;Instructor in Freshman English, UC Berkeley. l966&#8211;Instructor in English, University of San Francisco. l964&#8211;Professor of English, Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama. l967&#8211;Instructor in Sociology, UC Santa Cruz. l977-83&#8211;Visiting Writer, UC Berkeley. EDITORIAL 1967-73&#8211;Editor, Ramparts Magazine l982-85&#8211;Consulting Editor, California Magazine 1992-2000—Editor, Heterodoxy ADMINISTRATIVE 1986-91—Co-director, Second Thoughts [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">EDUCATION</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">BA English l96l (cum laude) UC Berkeley.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">MA English l963 UC Berkeley. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">TEACHING </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">l963-69&#8211;Instructor in Freshman English, UC Berkeley.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">l966&#8211;Instructor in English, University of San Francisco. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">l964&#8211;Professor of English, Miles College, Birmingham, Alabama.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">l967&#8211;Instructor in Sociology, UC Santa Cruz.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">l977-83&#8211;Visiting Writer, UC Berkeley.</span></p>
<h1><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">EDITORIAL</span></h1>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1967-73&#8211;Editor, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ramparts </span>Magazine</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">l982-85&#8211;Consulting Editor, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">California Magazine</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1992-2000—Editor, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Heterodoxy </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">ADMINISTRATIVE</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1986-91—Co-director, Second Thoughts Project, Washington D.C. (Organized a movement of former New Leftists who had “second thoughts” after a decade and a half of commitment to the “revolution” of the 60s; set up campus appearances across the county for this group; debated spokesmen for the Left before university audiences; published a newsletter, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Second Thoughts</span>; traveled to Nicaragua for the State Department to inspire the “civic resistance” to defy the Sandinistas; organized “Second Thoughts Conference” in Washington D.C in 1987, followed by “Second Thoughts about Race” in the same city, and “Second Thoughts about the 60s and Totalitarianism” in Poland in 1989.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1992-97—Vice President, Center for the Study of Popular Culture, Los Angeles, California.  (Did corporate planning; designed, edited and published a monthly magazine,<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Heterodoxy</span>, and two quarterlies, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Defender</span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Report Card</span>; edited a series of books and pamphlets, including <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Deconstructing the Left</span> and <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Stranger than Fact</span>; set up subscription, sales and distribution systems; wrote direct mail and did personal fund raising; organized two conferences on the role of Hollywood and Hollywood politics in American life; appeared in speaking engagements at campuses across the country.)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1998-2006&#8211;Publisher and President, Encounter Books.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">WRITINGS</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong>Articles</strong> in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">New York Times</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Washington Post</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Reader’s Digest</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Public Interest</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Commentary</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Weekly Standard</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The National Review</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The American Spectator</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Vanity Fair</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Rolling Stone</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Esquire</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Playboy</span>, Wall Street Journal, etc. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong>Short fiction</strong> in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Triquarterly</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Canto</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Seattle Review</span>, etc.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong>Books (fictio</strong>n)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Downriver: A Novel </span>(Holt, Rinehart&#8211;1978)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The King’s Giraffe </span>with Mary Collier (Simon and Schuster&#8211;1995).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong>Books (nonfiction):</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">When Shall They Rest: A History of the Cherokee People</span> (Holt, Rinehart&#8211;1972)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty</span> (Holt, Rinehart&#8211;l976)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Kennedys: An American Drama </span>(Simon and Schuster&#8211;1984)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Fords: An American Epic </span>(Simon and Schuster&#8211;1987)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts about the Sixties</span> (Simon and Schuster&#8211;1989)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Fondas: A Hollywood Dynasty</span> (G.P Putnam’s&#8211;1990)\</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties</span> (Madison&#8211;1991)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Roosevelts: An American Saga</span> (Simon and Schuster&#8211;1994);</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Medal of Honor</span> (Workman Publishers&#8211;2004)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong>Film Scripts</strong>:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">“Shades of Gray: the Life and Death of Fay Stender” (1990);</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">“Cowboy Days,” the story of Theodore Roosevelt in the West (1997).</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"> <strong>Television Documentaries</strong></span></p>
<ul><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"><strong> </strong> Executive Producer for “Campus Battleground,” funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting as part of its “America at the Crossroads” and shown nationally on PBS in 2007.</span></ul>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">PUBLISHING HIGHLIGHTS</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Three books (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Rockefellers</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Kennedys</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Roosevelts</span>) main selections Book of the Month Club. Two books (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Downriver</span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Fondas</span>) featured alternates. Nominated for the National Book Award (<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Rockefellers</span>) and the Pulitzer (The Kennedys).  <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Rockefellers</span> on the NYT best seller list for 16 weeks.  <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Kennedys</span> on the NYT best seller list for 22 weeks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Called by the New York Times, &#8220;America&#8217;s premier biographer of dynastic tragedy.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">Books translated into 13 languages. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">HONORS</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1979&#8211;Fellow, National Endowment of the Arts</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1980&#8211;State Department Lecturer Abroad in Scandinavia</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;">1987&#8211;State Department Lecturer Abroad in Nicaragua</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: small;"> 1998&#8211;State Department Lecturer Abroad in Italy</span></p>
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		<title>Defending Sudan’s Christians from Islamist Terror</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark D. Tooley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archbishop John Sentamu delivers uncomfortable truths to the leftist Church of England. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/?attachment_id=149000" rel="attachment wp-att-149000"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-149000" title="John-Sentamu_1742060c" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/John-Sentamu_1742060c.gif" alt="" width="315" height="225" /></a>The Church of England’s Archbishop of York continues to distinguish himself as a frequent fly in the ointment of political correctness by defending British culture and Christianity. Himself a Ugandan refugee from the horrors of Idi Amin, John Sentamu is thankful for the civilization that has protected and elevated him.  It’s perhaps no great surprise that a Church of England commission assigned to nominate the next Archbishop of Canterbury, who would be their church’s and the global Anglican Communion’s senior prelate, declined to nominate Sentamu.  Amid allegations of adamant resistance by some to the Archbishop of York, who is a strong and sometimes polarizing figure, the commission instead has so far failed in its duty and nominated nobody.   The Church of England is left dangling.  Almost certainly the Archbishop of York would provide greater leadership and clarity than the often left-leaning, poet intellectual who is currently the Archbishop of Canterbury.</p>
<p>Further evidence of Sentamu’s leadership emerged in an October 17 speech he delivered to the House of Lords in defense of the besieged and mostly Christian people of South Sudan.  The South Sudanese won their independence from the brutal Islamist regime in Khartoum last year after decades of vicious war in which millions perished.  Yet Sudan’s tyrants still threaten the south just as they continue to wage war against various Muslim minority groups in northern Sudan that don’t subscribe to Khartoum’s nasty brand of radical Islam.</p>
<p>In May Sentamu attended a retreat in South Sudan with 14 senior Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops.  Bishops from Sudan itself, representing the often besieged Christian minority that remains in the north, were unable to travel.   The senior prelates issued an appeal to a world that does not often heed their plight. “Much of the last six decades has been characterized by a struggle for freedom on the part of marginalizd peoples within the old nation of Sudan,” the Sudanese bishops noted with understatement.  They celebrated the “peaceful birth” of South Sudan amid the north’s frequent refusal to abide by the peace accord and despite “military provocation from Khartoum.”   And they emphasized that South Sudan represents only “one section of the marginalized peoples of Sudan.”  The bishops expressed frustration that the United Nations and other prominent international actors mostly are ignoring the ongoing plight of Sudan’s oppressed minority groups against whom Khartoum continues to wage war.  The targeted peoples include Darfur and the peoples of the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile.</p>
<p>The Anglican and Catholic bishops accused Sudan of supporting “rebel militia” in South Sudan that are abducting recruits to fight against the “democratically-elected government” there.   “Unlike the rebel movements in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile, they do not appear to have any popular support nor just cause,” noted the bishops, who said Khartoum is suspected also of supporting the notorious Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army.   Citing Martin Luther King, Jr., the bishops declared they “too have a dream” about “two nations which are democratic and free, where people of all religions, all ethnic groups, all cultures and all languages enjoy equal human rights based on citizenship,” and where Christians and Muslims “can attend church or mosque freely without fear.”</p>
<p>Such a dream from the Sudanese bishops is lofty, and the international community, above all the churches, should embrace it. But most are silent in the face of Khartoum’s ongoing crimes.  As the Archbishop of York politely told the House of Lords:  “The fact is that the needs and aspirations of these noble people are not actually understood in the West.”  Sentamu said Britain should encourage Sudan to recognize the reality of itself as a “multiethnic, multicultural and multireligious nation.”  But of course, Khartoum’s Islamist regime despises this notion.   “Freedom of religion is an essential element of respect for human rights in Sudan and needs to be emphasized,” Sentamu said, citing the “significant indigenous Christian presence in Sudan whose rights must be respected.”  With restrained language, he recalled “dangerously provocative language” earlier this year from Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, which was followed by a Sudanese Islamist mob destroying a Presbyterian church and the Khartoum police destroying an Anglican church.  Sentamu described the senior Roman Catholic and Anglican clerics as key leaders for negotiating a satisfactory peace in wider Sudan.  And he concluded:  “I call upon Her Majesty’s Government to do all in their power to assist both countries in making this dream [of the bishops] a reality.”</p>
<p>Let’s see if Her Majesty’s Government or other Western nations pay sufficient heed to the Archbishop of York’s appeal.   Or even if Western churches bother to listen and echo Sentamu’s concern.  The many Western church elites, for example, who obsess over Israel’s reputed oppression of Palestinians in the West Bank might make just a little time to examine the many millions more who suffer far, far worse in Sudan.  Just as South Sudan did for decades, the tormented minority groups of north Sudan yearn for decent government if not independence.  Unlike Israel, which has repeatedly acceded to the idea of a Palestinian state, Khartoum prefers to crush its opponents where possible.</p>
<p>Of course, acknowledging the wickedness of a radical Islamist regime is hard for many Western church elites who, unlike Sentamu, typically locate evil only in Western culture. But at least the Archbishop of York is speaking when too many other clerics are silent.</p>
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