Author Archive | Chip Joyce

Next month it will be the second anniversary of the worst day in American history. How goes the war? To our government’s credit there has not been a repeat terrorist attack in the US. The Taliban government was overthrown. Saddam Hussein is no longer a potentially dangerous wildcard that might have helped terrorists get weapons [...]

The East Coast blackout seemed to be straight out Atlas Shrugged: 60 million people without electricity and the official reaction was that things worked like they were supposed to! I just had to verify that the New York Times editorial on the subject was a call for more government control — and, of course, it [...]

Daniel Pipes’ recent column identifies changes to the way the West (namely, the USA and Israel) conduct war. He seems to report this factually and there is no explicit opinion on the matter, but the implication is that he doesn’t have a problem with it–and may even endorse it. He cites the following characteristics of [...]

FrontPage mag published leftist Nat Hentoff’s piece explaining what he did not march to protest the Iraqi war. In his article he quotes himself from a newspaper interview: “There was the disclosure . . . when the prisons were briefly opened of the gouging of eyes of prisoners and the raping of women in front [...]

We are in the midst of a radical change in world geopolitics. The twentieth century saw two major geopolitical shuffles that resulted from the world wars. The second world war’s effect remained intact through 1989 when the Soviet Union collapsed and since then there has been the tremors of a reshuffling. The United States of [...]

Reader Ben Rathbone pointed me to this letter that he wrote, and I applaud the position taken. Here’s the background: [On February 22, 2003, the] 24-hour Arabic cable news network, Al-Jazeera, will be broadcasting a two hour “open dialogue” from the Harris Theater at GMU. Our campus newspaper, Broadside, has a writeup about it here. [...]

A reader asked the following questions, and since they’re asked politely and with seeming sincerity, I’ll answer them. Question 1: What is a ‘militant Muslim’, how do you suppose you round them up and how exactly do you get rid of them? More to the point, what creates a ‘militant Muslim’? A ‘mililtant Muslim’ is [...]

I always disliked Powell but was almost willing to give him a second chance, given his recent hawkishness. Then I realized that I was making a mistake: he hadn’t changed an iota. The mistaken view is that somehow he’s seen the truth about Iraq, namely that they’ll never voluntarily disarm no matter what international pressure [...]

In the past few weeks radical Muslims have attacked again, including a bombing of a French ship, a bombing that killed hundreds–mostly Australians–in Indonesia, bombings in the Philippines, and possibly a bombing of a Moscow McDonald’s restaurant. The director of the CIA told Congress in October 2002 to expect another major attack within the U.S.’s [...]

Empathy for the Palestinian people for being in an “occupied” territory and without their own sovereign government is horribly misguided. This is a people, aside from a few voiceless individuals, who chose as their leader an oppressive dictator who not only supports terrorism against Israel, but who also has a Gestapo-like internal secret police, prohibits [...]