When history renders its awful verdict of Barack Obama’s responsibility for the human catastrophe of Syria, the Corker-Blinken confrontation will be part of the brief.
Joseph LoconteOctober 7, 2016
These facts—the moral seriousness and quiet valor of everyday Syrians—have been ignored during a presidential election year blackened by nativism and anti-Islamic tirades. In the morally debased culture of American politics, it is now necessary to point out that the vast majority of White Helmet volunteers are believing Muslims.
Joseph LoconteAugust 24, 2016
Nearly two years after the start of the Second World War—with most of continental Europe under German occupation—Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill held their first wartime meeting, where they drafted the Atlantic Charter.
Joseph LoconteAugust 10, 2016
Turkey’s relationship to NATO is edging toward the brink of collapse: caught in a miasma of Islamic radicalism, power-grabbing, and naïve foreign policy.
Joseph LoconteAugust 5, 2016
There should be no confusion about the identity and motives of the Tunisian man who drove his truck into a crowd celebrating Bastille Day on a promenade in Nice, France, killing at least 84 and injuring hundreds. This is the face of the modern holy warrior, the fanatical foot soldier in the Islamic jihad against the West.
Joseph LoconteJuly 15, 2016
Under threat, Europe is at another crossroads. Whether NATO will help it find the right direction is an open question.
Joseph LoconteJuly 12, 2016
ISIS militants see Turkey not simply as a gateway to the soul of the West, but a gutter
Joseph LoconteJuly 1, 2016
The cultural left treats the Orlando assault as if religious belief plays no role in the modern world, as if there is no difference between a school shooting by a young man who emotionally snaps and a suicide bombing planned and inspired by ISIS.
Joseph LoconteJune 13, 2016
The earliest champions of a free press were not Enlightenment philosophes. They were dissenting Christians, most of them Protestants, battling the political and religious authoritarians of the day.
Joseph LoconteJune 10, 2016
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