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Advice to Golf Star Phil Mickelson: Forget about Golf, Join the Tea Party
By Brigitte L. Nacos Phil Mickelson used to be one of my favorite golf professionals. I like his style of play. I rooted for him. Yesterday, he lost me as a fan. Not because of his less than stellar...
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The Assassination of U.S. Nationals in the "War on Terrorism"
Brigitte L. Nacos Two years ago, Dana Priest reported in the Washington Post that first the Bush administration and then the Obama administration gave the CIA and the U.S. military green light to...
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The Boston Bombings: Terror or Terrorism by Whom?
By Brigitte L. Nacos It was eerily similar to the hours after the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995, when the media reported about “Middle Eastern looking” suspects. Yesterday, there were reports of a...
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Terrorism in Boston, the Tsarnaev Brothers, and Jihadist Radicalization in...
By Brigitte L. Nacos If you want to know about the radicalization path taken by some young Muslims in the West, read the New York Police Department’s 2007 study “Radicalization in the West: The...
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GOP and “Benghazi-Gate” Hype: The Real Target is Hillary in 2016
By Brigitte L. Nacos Of all the so-called “scandals” within the Obama administration, “Benghazi-Gate” remains and will remain the one the GOP and their Tea Party wing love to exploit most for their...
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The Boston Bomber’s Rolling Stone Cover: Why So Much Indignation?
By Brigitte L. Nacos Although banned from their shelves by several large chain stores like Shop & Stop and CVS, the Rolling Stone issue depicting the surviving Boston Marathon Bomber Dzokhar...
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Terrorists Know That Threats are Nearly as Effective as Attacks
By Brigitte L. Nacos As I noted repeatedly in my blogs and in my previous post, when public officials overreact in their public statements to terrorist threats and plot warnings and the media hype...
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Questions about Support for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
By Brigitte L. Nacos While in Egypt with his colleague Senator John McCain, Lindsey Graham said, “The people who are in charge were not elected. The people who were elected are in jail. The status quo...
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Bin Laden is Dead, but Bin Ladenism Is Alive and Well
By Brigitte L. Nacos (Updated Post) On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden, the founder and head of Al Qaeda, was killed in a daring commando raid by the U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six in his hide-out in...
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From the Munich Olympics 1972 to Terrorist Threats against the Sochi Games
By Brigitte L. Nacos When members of the Palestinian Black September group forced their way into the living quarters of Israel’s Olympic team during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, killed two...
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Take a Deep Breath and Think Before Making Missteps in the Ukrainian Crisis
By Brigitte L. Nacos Yesterday, Secretary of State John Kerry told Bob Schieffer of CBS News that Russia’s move into Crimea is “an incredible act of aggression. It is really a stunning, willful choice...
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Bill O’Reilly: “There's got to be some downside to having a woman president.”
Transcript Excerps with Comments by Brigitte L. Nacos With Hillary Clinton the only woman in the discussed line-up for the 2016 presidential race, Bill O’Reilly put forth the argument that there must...
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The Gender Gap in Sports Media and Its Consequences
By Brigitte L. Nacos Each spring, when the media report on “March Madness,” they hype the NCAA men’s basketball tournament with the NCAA women’s basketball play-offs not even an afterthought. That’s...
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Questions about the Controversial Prisoner Swap: 1 Captured US Soldier = 5...
By Brigitte L. Nacos It is hardly surprising that the one-for-five prisoner swap that freed US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl from his captivity in the Pakistani-Afghan border region and five high-ranking...
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Dick Cheney did Not Learn from Iraq Debacle, Wants Repeat
By Brigitte L. Nacos It is difficult enough to listen to John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and others in the camp of perennial foreign policy hawks who have not seen a violent conflict or a perceived major...
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Accidental Downing of Civilian Airliners in War Zones: Last Week a Malaysia...
By Brigitte L. Nacos Last week’s downing of a Malaysian civilian airliner over the Ukrainian region controlled by separatists with close ties to Russia was an unspeakable tragedy for the 298 persons...
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President Obama Must Lead the Fight Against the Jihadist Killing Machine
By Brigitte L.Nacos It took the beheading of American James Foley for “the entire world” to be “appalled” as President Obama said the other day. Never mind that the same savage horde has beheaded and...
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After Air Strikes against ISIS and Two Big Surprises: What Next?
By Brigitte L. Nacos If anyone had told me a few days ago (1) that the governments of five Arab states would join the United States and Western allies in flying air raids against the self-proclaimed...
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After Air Strikes against ISIS and Two Big Surprises (II)
By Brigitte L. Nacos My previous post focused entirely on the joint air strikes against ISIS in Syria and possible follow-up military actions. But military responses from the air and on the ground will...
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ISIS Recruitment of Muslim Girls and Women via Social Media
By Brigitte L. Nacos This time the ultimately nightmare for parents had a happy ending: The three teenage girls from Colorado who last Friday traveled abroad to join the ISIS terrorist organization...
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