By: John Zmirak – stream.org – April 12, 2018 President Trump is considering military action against the nation of Syria. Would that be justified? Would the servicemen who took part in it be acting as the legitimate sword of the state, as St. Paul wrote? Or would they be doing something deeply unjust, acting as St. Augustine described the Roman...

By: the Editors – nationalreview.com – April 11, 2018 Bashar al-Assad’s gas attack on the anniversary of President Trump’s missile strike against his regime was an invitation to get hit again, and the president is indeed promising another strike. We weren’t enthusiastic over the first one. Assad is, as Trump is now wont to say, an animal. He has destroyed...

By: Tamara Qiblawi and Sarah Sirgany – cnn.com – February 21, 2018 At least 250 civilians have been killed in two days of relentless bombardment of Eastern Ghouta in Syria, activists say, prompting warnings that the regime of Bashar al-Assad is preparing to crush the rebel-held enclave. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 106 died on Tuesday, the...

By: Tamara Qiblawi and Sarah Sirgany – cnn.com – February 21, 2018 At least 250 civilians have been killed in two days of relentless bombardment of Eastern Ghouta in Syria, activists say, prompting warnings that the regime of Bashar al-Assad is preparing to crush the rebel-held enclave. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 106 died on Tuesday, the...

By: Victor Davis Hanson – nationalreview.com – January 11, 2018 By cutting off hundreds of millions in American aid to the Palestinian Authority, President Trump could radically alter the Middle East. President Trump set off another Twitter firestorm last week when he hinted that he may be considering cutting off hundreds of millions of dollars in annual U.S. aid to...

By: Lukas Mikelionis – Fox News – January 5, 2018 An Islamic State group offshoot in Egypt has officially declared war on Gaza-based Palestinian terror group Hamas, releasing a 22-minute video purporting to show the execution of an alleged collaborator. “Never surrender to them. Use explosives, silenced pistols, and sticky bombs. Bomb their courts and their security locations, for these are...

By: Staff Writer – ouramericanvalues.org – Jan 2, 2018 The Islamic Republic of Iran has been rocked the past week by protests across the country. It is hard to get solid information on exactly what is taking place there. Demonstrations have erupted in at least 40 cities. As many as 20 have been killed and 450 have been arrested. What...

By: Ben Shapiro – nationalreview.com – January 2, 2018 Last week, former Obama national security advisor Susan Rice — she of the infamously shifting Benghazi explanations — published an op-ed in the New York Times dedicated to the proposition that Trump’s “America first” foreign policy has “relinquish[ed] the nation’s moral authority in these difficult times.” According to Rice, Trump has...

President Donald Trump displays an executive order after announcing the U.S. would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, December 6, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – December 7, 2017 The president recognizes reality: Israel is a real country. Jihadists, the tip of the sharia-supremacist spear, rationalize mass murder by denying the humanity of their enemies:...

By: David French – nationalreview.com – December 6, 2017 President Trump’s decision to formally recognize that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and to announce plans to move America’s embassy to the seat of Israel’s government is one of the best, most moral, and important decisions of his young administration. On this issue, he is demonstrating greater resolve than Republican...