 AP Photo One of President Barack Obama’s main themes is to convince Middle East Islamists that America is not their enemy. But the reason this strategy never works is that the radicals know better. The United States is their enemy. TAGGED: Political Islam, Islamists, Barack Obama, 2012, Egypt, Palestine, United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, Israel, Israel Navy, United StatesRECOMMENDED ARTICLES| The narrative about an inexorable, ineluctable Islamist rise to power in post-dictatorship Arab societies has been further undermined by a series of under-appreciated and quietly dramatic developments in North Africa. The failure... more ›› |
| From Egypt’s Sinai desert to eastern Libya and the battlegrounds of Syria’s civil war, the push for greater democracy made possible by revolts in the Middle East and North Africa has also unleashed new freedoms that militants... more ›› |
| For almost two years, the Syrian people have tried to free themselves of Bashar al-Assad's cruel iron fist. They have looked repeatedly to America for help. But the Obama administration has failed to robustly support the Syrian... more ›› |
| There’s an implicit, and sometimes explicit, question in the domestic U.S. political discussion of the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya: Were the attackers part of al-Qaeda? After all, the young Islamist... more ›› |
| There are two problems with US policy toward the Middle East: both the analysis and response aren’t just wrong, they make things much worse.The White House has supported the anti-Semitic, anti-American Muslim Brotherhood in... more ›› |
| |
