Alan Caruba

The Arab Summit: Even Arabs Don’t Like Arabs

The shouting match that broke out at the March 1 “Arab Summit” in Sharm El-Sheikh, an Egyptian Red Sea resort, was instructive on a number of levels. What it mostly confirmed was that even Arabs don’t like (or trust) Arabs. Behind all the wrangling...

Death to Dictators!

Recently I found myself arguing with some woman who asked me to sign a “Stop the War” petition while I was in the village area of my hometown. On every corner the anti-war folks were staked out trying to collect signatures. When I told her I couldn’t...

Double Standard: Dead Jews vs. Dead Arabs

Does anyone seriously believe the Palestinians want peace? The Israelis retaliated against a man who had plotted the deaths of hundreds of their countrymen and, in return, his colleagues kill whom? University students. Young people among whom were four Americans. The...

The American Taliban is All Green

On September 11th, the Environmental News Service, {http://enn.com} one of the main sources of every bogus environmental claim, shed big crocodile tears about the attack on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon. The event evoked a sudden realization by Jerry Kay,...

The Many Faces of Islam

“The terrorists’ directive commands them to kill Christians and Jews, to kill all Americans and make no distinctions among military and civilians, including women and children.” So said President Bush in his September 20th address to Congress and the...

The U.S. in Wonderland: A Place Where Enemies Become Allies

The first round in the new war against terrorism has been lost. The “leak” of an announcement that the US favors a Palestinian state will correctly be interpreted by Arabs as proof that terrorism works. Just how strange is it that the three most obvious...

The Green Party vs. American Capitalism

The Green Party has 362 candidates running in 39 States. If they can tap into the uncertainty and resentment of voters, they are likely to draw votes from Democrats in the mid-term elections. Political analysts believe Ralph Nader’s run for the presidency in...

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