Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘Recherche Assistance Intervention Dissuasion’

The French confirm that they’re serious this time

The French have struck again. First it was in Paris, and now it’s Mali, where Islamic State terrorists took 170 hostages at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako. American, Malian, and French special forces freed the hostages and killed the terrorists. It isn’t clear how many hostages died. It may be as many as twenty-seven….

 

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A death richly deserved

Amedy Coulibaly was the terrorist who took hostages at a Hyper Cacher (“Super Kosher”) supermarket in Porte de Vincennes on January 9, 2015. Coulibaly was a career criminal, a Muslim convert, and a first-class buffoon who had no idea what he was doing. He richly deserved what happened to him. First, a note to the…

 

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The world is not required to defend Islam

I remember 9/11 as though it happened yesterday. My mother woke my brother Tim and me up by standing in our garden and shouting, “Terrorists have attacked the World Trade Center, and the Twin Towers have collapsed!” The very next day, American politicians took to the airwaves to defend Islam. Why? If I were president…

 

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