ISLAM: Rational Muslims must confront nihilism
The western Christian world again is fighting a religious war. “My God is the only one, your God makes you an infidel open to beheading, torture, terror attack and whatever other brutality we can dream...
View ArticleTERRORISM: Article reflects bias against US ally
Re: “Jordan executes jailed militants as revenge” (TNT, 2-4). I must disagree with this article regarding Jordan’s “revenge” execution of two POWs in retaliation for the caged burning alive of a...
View ArticleISLAMIC STATE: Current violence is nothing new
The violence committed by the Islamic State should not come as a surprise. By now we’re all pretty much shocked out of our senses. But what they are doing is not totally unheard of in the sordid...
View ArticleIS: Stop them before history repeats itself
Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States did nothing to stop the killing of innocent Jewish people by the Nazis. Today, the Islamic State is killing innocent Christians and Muslims, and...
View ArticleSYRIA: US-Turkey cooperation critical to peace
Re: “Pentagon selects first 400 Syrians to be trained to fight Islamic State” (thenewstribune.com, 3-27). This article highlights an important partnership between the United States and Turkey as both...
View ArticleISLAM: Stop genocide against Christians
After reading the article (TNT, 4-19) regarding the continual destruction wrought by the Islamic State, I couldn’t help but notice that the next page’s article involved the trial of a Nazi charged with...
View ArticleIRAQ: Krauthammer lives in fantasy land
Re: “Obama turned Bush’s success into collapse” (Charles Krauthammer column, 5-22). Once again, Krauthammer has danced his way to fantasy land. The collapse of the Iraqi army also happened when we...
View ArticleIRAQ: A black eye for Obama’s legacy
Any blunt assessment of the mess in the Middle East leaves Barack Obama’s legacy with a black eye. Of course, on the other side of the aisle are chicken hawks clamoring to send in more troops to...
View ArticleMIDEAST: Do nothing about the Islamic State
Re: “What would Republicans do about Islamic State?” (Eugene Robinson column, 6-2). Robinson almost endorses Rand Paul’s noninterventionist foreign policy, but hesitates, indicating: “If by some chance...
View ArticleISLAMIC STATE: US is a target-rich environment
The threat of the Islamic State with their horrific and barbaric acts of mayhem is alive and well. This swell of killing will continue throughout the world. They will not stop, ever! These radicals are...
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