by Henry Oliner | Sep 8, 2015 | Foreign policy, Middle East
from the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, The West’s Refugee Crisis The lesson is that while intervention has risks, so does abdication. The difference is that at least intervention gives the West the opportunity to shape events, often for the better, rather...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 8, 2015 | Foreign policy, Middle East, Politics
from Bret Stephens at The Wall Street Journal, Farewell to the Era of No Fences: How did this happen? We mistook a holiday from history for the end of it. We built a fenceless world on the wrong set of assumptions about the future. We wanted a new liberal order—one...
by Henry Oliner | Feb 8, 2015 | Anti Semitism, Foreign policy, Middle East, Terrorism
from Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe,’ I see parchment burning, but the letters are soaring free’ I refuse to excerpt this article. I insist you read it in its entirety.
by Henry Oliner | May 9, 2011 | Middle East, Military
At an industry meeting last week at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, CO, the first speaker on Monday, May 2, was General Stanley McChrystal. Given the killing of Bin Laden the day before he changed his topic from one of leadership to speak about the special forces...
by Henry Oliner | Jan 14, 2010 | Israel, Middle East
… according to Mideast expert Micah Halpern Excerpt This explosion was so powerful and out of control it was designed to kill, maim and damage in a wide circumference around the bomb. This was not the work of a Western intelligence force, it was not even the...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 29, 2009 | Israel, Middle East, Terrorism
Jeff Jacoby in the Boston Globe Peace vs the ‘peace process’ October 14, 2009 Excerpts: In an important article in the current Middle East Quarterly, Daniel Pipes reviews the terrible failure of the 1993 Oslo accords, and homes in on the root fallacy of...
