Terrorism

Is Obama making the same mistakes in war as Bush?
The Daily Collegian
University of Massachusetts--Amherst

Dear Editors,

Matthew Robare says that President Obama has not delivered "hope" or "change" in foreign policy, as he promised.

What the lead-up to the Fort Hood massacre reveals about our culture

Last month, Major Nidal Hasan killed 13 people and wounded several others in a massacre at Fort Hood.

Troop surges, tactical air strikes, and withdrawal and retreat. These are all terms Americans should be familiar with by now, especially considering the recently proposed U.S.

North Korea has a long history of being a malevolent nation. The communist dictatorship was first placed on the State Department’s list of terrorist-supporting nations in 1987, after it bombed a South Korean jetliner– an attack that followed years of North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens.

But now, North Korea has been granted its most recent demand: that the world pretend otherwise.

The New York Times recently released a video about a group of Jewish and Arab teenagers in Jerusalem who have come together to sing, rather than to fight. Aaron Shneyer, the organizer of this Arab/Jewish band, sombrely explains his assessment of the current situation: "Here's everyone sharing the city [Jerusalem], but they can't talk to the other side.

Seven years ago, after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and President Bush's subsequent declaration of war on "terror", many argued that the world had changed forever. A "new normal" had arrived, in which Americans could no longer live in blithe ignorance to the rest of the world. A violent faction sought their destruction, and the United States had to acknowledge and respond to that fact.

Former President Jimmy Carter, already famous for surrendering America's interests to militant Islamists during the Iran Hostage Crisis in the late 70's, is yet again betraying America. Last week, Carter met with Nasser Shaer, a senior Hamas politician, under the pretense of promoting "peace" in the region.