Month: September 2013

  • On Christian Zionism

    NOTES FROM THE IIIT CONFERENCE ON GOOD GOVERNANCE IN ISLAM: CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES #12 [This is the twelfth in a series of my notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on Good Governance in Islam: Classical and Contemporary Approaches held in Herndon, VA. These notes have only been lightly edited and represent…

  • News and Analysis (9/9/13)

    “On Sunday, Syrian rebels, including some affiliated with al-Qaeda, swept through Maaloula for the second time in four days, after an assault a few days earlier in which the last of its few thousand residents fled and the specter of unchecked violence threatened to convulse the iconic town”: Syrian War Makes Sudden Appearance at Convent…

  • News and Analysis (9/6/13)

    Does Obama have any clue of the dangers of a U.S. strike on Syria. Apparently so, but does he care? US Orders Diplomats out of Lebanon Amid Fears (AP / abc News) Kerry Portrait of Syria Rebels at Odds with intelligence reports (Reuters) U.S. Intercepts Iranian Order for Attack on U.S. Interests in Iraq: Report…

  • News and Analysis (9/4/13)

    The Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed a resolution Wednesday granting President Obama limited authority to launch a military strike on Syria in response to its reported use of chemical weapons against civilians … Senate Committee Approves Resolution Authorizing U.S. Strike on Syria (Washington Post) … but who’s giving the orders? Pro-Israel and Jewish Groups Strongly…

  • News and Analysis (8/30/13)

    Although the U.N. has not yet revealed the findings of  its investigation, after the British parliament’s refusal to knuckle under Cameron’s war plans,  the U.S. is prepared to move ahead on its own … Will the US Go It Alone on Syria? (Christian Science Monitor) … and on the strength of purported evidence that “chemical…

  • News and Analysis (9/2/13)

    James Madison said that the Constitutional placement of the power to declare war into the hands of the Congress was a conscious attempt to limit the President, but John Kerry says he knows better than Madison … Bomb Syria? President Obama Must Go to Congress for a Declaration of War (Forbes) Syria Crisis: Obama ‘Has…

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