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The Obama administration’s fear of offending Muslims will hurt the U.S. war against terrorism, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) said Thursday in a speech blasting the president’s new counterterrorism strategy. Lieberman said that Obama’s strategy, which was released in June, “was ultimately a big disappointment,” and while it successfully identified the core of the domestic radicalization problem, it did not establish a clear plan of attack to deal with the growing issue. The four-term senator and one-time presidential candidate said one of the key problems with the Obama administration’s strategy was that it continues to call terrorism that aims to harm...

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The chairman of the Senate's Homeland Security committee, Joe Lieberman, on Sunday said that the deadly shooting at Texas' Fort Hood military base was an act of "Islamist extremism." Lieberman, a former Democratic vice-presidential candidate, said it was too early to definitively state the motives of Nidal Hasan, who is alleged to have killed 13 and injured 30 on a murderous rampage last week, but said clues pointed to terrorism. "There are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this was a terrorist act," he told Fox...

A MERE 60-odd years on, World War II still haunts us like a livid vision out of a waking dream. Three generations after fascism annihilated itself in the manner of a suicide-bomber, Leftists and conservatives still wrestle for the laurel of true anti-fascist. Even today our bright-eyed Judeophobes know that they must transfer the shame of the Holocaust elsewhere before they can set about the unsubtle business of depicting Israelis as the modern Nazis. And our open-hearted efforts to "understand" our own era's grand-operatic reactionaries - flint-eyed jihadis such as Indonesia's Noordin Mohammed Top, or the cynical corridor-lurkers of our...

Allowing the fanatics who've ravaged Islam (and who've slaughtered countless Muslims) to speak for themselves, author Laurent Murawiec quotes the late Ayatollah Khomeini: "Those who know nothing of Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war . . . I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim . . . A religion without war is a crippled religion. It is war that purifies the earth."A notorious ally of Khomeini's, Ayatollah Khalkali, put it even more bluntly: "Those who are against killing have no place in Islam." Those are but two of the hundreds of chilling citations in "The...

There is something profoundly wrong when opposition to the war in Iraq seems to inspire greater passion than opposition to Islamist extremism. There is something profoundly wrong when there is so much distrust of our intelligence community that some Americans doubt the plain and ominous facts about the threat to us posed by Iran. And there is something profoundly wrong when, in the face of attacks by radical Islam, we think we can find safety and stability by pulling back, by talking to and accommodating our enemies, and abandoning our friends and allies. Some of this wrong-headed thinking about the...