Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Alan Caruba; The Absent Superpower

Warning Signs   
"Just as in the past, the threat of Islamic fanaticism looms large again and just as in the past we are seeing its most potent instrument of conquest, terror, being used. From 9/11 to the slaughters in Sudan’s Darfur region, the attacks in Nigeria, and tumult everywhere the Muslim population reaches a tipping point, the headlines are a reminder of its former history. Islam and bloodshed are synonymous."
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"What is astonishing and dismaying is that Obama recently said that the world is more stable now than in the last five years. What world is he talking about?
"His foreign policy failures in the Middle East are ceding much of it and the African Maghreb to militant Islamists."

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