Monthly Archives: December 2007

If They Strapped Bombs on Dogs or Horses…

Last month’s Annapolis conference, like Oslo, was pure kabuki theater, in which leaders gathered to pretend that the central issue of the Arab/Israeli conflict is land, not irrational hatred, corruption, and brainwashing of the next generation of “martyrs.” Meanwhile, as leaders nitpick over borders and definitions, the education of an entire generation of Muslim children …

An Issue for Obama?

Here’s an issue for Barack Obama, or any presidential candidate who is sincere about both fighting terrorism and championing human rights: condemning the recruitment of children to become suicide bombers. Today in her talk to U.S. service members at National Defense University in Washington D.C., Brooke Goldstein, director of the legal project at Daniel Pipes’ …