Copyright 2010 Daniel Pipes Tue, 09 Feb 2010 08:51:23 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Daniel Pipes :: Writings http://www.danielpipes.org MeqMef@aol.com (Daniel Pipes) webmaster@danielpipes.org en-us http://www.danielpipes.org/7940/sarah-palin-endorses-bomb-iran Mon, 8 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST My National Review Online column last week carried the provocative title, "How to Save the Obama Presidency: Bomb Iran," and provoke it surely did. Leftists on websites like ThinkProgress and DailyKos reacted voluminously and in slightly crazed ways, http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2010/02/geert-wilders-western-civilization-on-trial Mon, 8 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST As the Geert Wilders case goes into pre-trial, National Review Online asked our experts: Is there any legitimate reason he's in court? What are the implications of such a trial being held, never mind its outcome? (For replies by Bat Ye'or, Paul http://www.danielpipes.org/7921/bomb-iran-save-obama-presidency Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:00:00 EST I do not customarily offer advice to a president whose election I opposed, whose goals I fear, and whose policies I work against. But here is an idea for Barack Obama to salvage his tottering administration by taking a step that protects the United http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2010/01/wasting-us-taxpayer-money-in-afghanistan Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST A 2009 critique found that the taxpayer has invested some $53 billion for relief and reconstruction in Iraq since 2003, or about $9 billion a year. Most or all of it has been or will be wasted. Nonetheless, here we go again, this time in Afghanistan, at http://www.danielpipes.org/7888/stand-with-geert-wilders Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST Who is the most important European alive today? I nominate the Dutch politician Geert Wilders. I do so because he is best placed to deal with the Islamic challenge facing the continent. He has the potential to emerge as a world-historical figure. That http://www.danielpipes.org/7886/lawrence-of-arabia-american-strategist Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST A fine article by Bertram Wyatt-Brown, "Lawrence of Arabia: Image and Reality," in The Journal of the Historical Society, December 2009, pp, 515-48, traces the reputation of T. E. Lawrence (1888-1935) through the near-century since his remarkable http://www.danielpipes.org/7866/airport-security-theater Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:00:00 EST As hands are wrung in the aftermath of the near-tragedy on a Northwest Airlines flight approaching Detroit, a conversation from London's Heathrow airport in 1986 comes to mind. It consisted of an El Al security agent quizzing one Ann-Marie Doreen Murphy, http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/12/why-did-nidal-hasan-read-the-middle-east-forum Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST A startling fact just emerged in the course of some routine maintenance work on the mailing lists for www.DanielPipes.org: One "Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan" has been subscribed as nidalhasan@aol.com since March 2009 to all the Middle East Forum mailing lists, http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/12/an-arabists-guide-to-egyptian-colloquial-now Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Here is my "Preface,", dated June 1982, to a brief book I wrote titled An Arabist's Guide to Egyptian Colloquial: Arriving in Cairo for the first time in June 1971, I had two years of Arabic study to my credit, yet I was unable to say anything or http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/12/janet-napolitanos-mentality Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab smuggled 80 grams of PETN in his underwear on a Northwest flight on Christmas Day from Amsterdam to Detroit and almost killed 288 passengers and crew. How did the geniuses in the Obama administration respond? Janet ("man-caused http://www.danielpipes.org/7840/detroit-northwest-near-tragedy Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST The near-success of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, to set off an explosive on Christmas Day should open the American public's eyes to the sad state of counterterrorism eight years after 9/11. The incident involved a Nigerian national in Seat 19A – http://www.danielpipes.org/7828/common-sense-egypt-saudi-arabia Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST Invited recently by the newly formed Pechter Middle East Polls to ask three questions of 1,000 representative Egyptians and 1,000 urban Saudis, the Middle East Forum focused on Iran and Israel, the countries that most polarize the region. The results are http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/12/islamists-in-the-west-and-public-transportation Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Just as Islamists aspire to transform religious symbols, marriage, schools, medical facilities, and other institutions in the West, so they are gunning for public transportation. I have covered two aspects of the taxi wars – liquor and dogs; this weblog http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2009/12/sheikh-obama-and-his-two-wars Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 EST Obama's Nobel "lecture" offers critics the usual cornucopia of opportunities for criticism but I shall focus on just two statements: "I am the Commander-in-Chief of a nation in the midst of two wars." And here I thought there were three wars. Obama's two http://www.danielpipes.org/7808/swiss-minarets-european-islam Wed, 9 Dec 2009 09:00:00 EST [JP title: "Resistance to Islamization"] What importance has the recent Swiss referendum to ban the building of minarets (spires next to mosques from which the call to prayer is issued)? Some may see the 57.5 to 42.5 percent decision endorsing a