Monday, July 25, 2011

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- July 25, 2011



Islamophobia And Mass Murder -- Mark Steyn, NRO

I have been away from the Internet for the weekend, and return to find myself being fitted out for a supporting role in Friday’s evil slaughter in Norway. The mass murderer Breivik published a 1,500-page “manifesto.” It quotes me, as well as several friends of NR — Theodore Dalrymple, Daniel Pipes, Roger Scruton, Melanie Phillips, Daniel Hannan (plus various pieces from NR by Rod Dreher and others) — and many other people, including Churchill, Gandhi, Orwell, Jefferson, John Locke, Edmund Burke, Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, not to mention the U.S. Declaration of Independence.* Those new “hate speech” codes the Left is already clamoring for might find it easier just to list the authors Europeans will still be allowed to read.

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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials

The not-so-terrible fate awaiting Norway’s alleged mass killer -- Robert Zeliger, Foreign Policy

What Did the Norwegian Murderer Think? -- Arutz Sheva editorial

Rise of the Radical Right -- Jamie Bartlett and Jonathan Birdwell, Foreign Policy

Guerrilla Warfare and Terrorism
-- Max Boot, Commentary

China’s Two-Pronged Maritime Rise -- Robert C. O'Brien, The Diplomat

Chinese governance seen through the people’s eyes
-- Tony Saich, East Asia Forum

We can’t abandon Iraqis who aided the U.S. -- Kirk W. Johnson, Washington Post

The West must learn lessons of history to avert tragedy in Africa -- Kevin Rudd and Andrew Mitchell, The Australian

Washington's Foreign-Policy Hypochondria -- Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest

Clinton to Asia on debt ceiling crisis: Don’t panic -- Josh Rogin, The Cable/Foreign Policy

U.S. should look north for its oil
-- Mark Milke, Montreal Gazette/Calgary Herald

With government spending, virtue hath its own rewards
-- Neil Reynolds, Globe And Mail

Illegal immigration is way down and falling fast -- Washington Post editorial

The FBI’s new tools -- Washington Post editorial

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