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Entries from July 2005

Publicists For Jihad

David Frum wrote on July 26th, 2005 at 12:00 am

The media love statistics. Statistics are facts, or anyway, they look like facts, and facts are what the media promise to deliver. And when those facts corroborate media prejudices–well, all the better.
Which is why so many European newspapers, including the paper in the tiny Irish village in which I happened to find myself last   more

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Can Iraq Recapture Its Golden Age?

David Frum wrote on July 19th, 2005 at 12:00 am

It has been a week of especially harrowing terrorist atrocity in Iraq. A suicide bomber drove his car bomb into a crowd of children in Baghdad, killing 32. Another detonated a fuel tanker in a crowded market in the town of Musaib on Friday, killing at least 98 people. That attack was one of 11   more

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What We Should Expect From Muslims

David Frum wrote on July 10th, 2005 at 12:00 am

Western Muslims feel badly misunderstood. The vast majority of them utterly abhor terrorism against the countries in which they live. And yet they sense suspicion from their fellow citizens.
Meanwhile, those fellow-citizens are feeling increasing frustration with their Muslim neighbors. Since 9/11, Western security forces have foiled some 40 major plots against Western nations. Many if   more

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Why Were London’s Muslims Targeted As Well?

David Frum wrote on July 9th, 2005 at 12:00 am

In the midst of anger and grief, hereÕs the good news:
The London terrorist attacks were markedly less sophisticated not only than the 9/11 attacks on New York, but even than the 3/11 attacks on Madrid and the 1998 embassy attacks in East Africa. The subway system the terrorists attacked is much less closely guarded   more

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Reason For Allies To Remain Willing

David Frum wrote on July 8th, 2005 at 12:00 am

At a meeting in Washington, DC, about a year ago, a senior Australian defense official looked weary, as well he might. He had arrived in the capital only a few hours before, but already he had met top officials at the Pentagon, Homeland Security and the State Department. This brief lunch at a think tank   more

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The Good News Bush Left Unsaid

David Frum wrote on July 5th, 2005 at 12:00 am

Had he wished, President Bush could have filled his entire speech last week with good news from Iraq.
He could have cited the latest economic statistics that show the Iraqi economy growing at a 17% annual rate, that unemployment has dropped by as much as one-half, with per capita income rising from less than US$700   more

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The Words We Need To Hear On Iraq

David Frum wrote on July 3rd, 2005 at 12:00 am

The president is going to talk about Iraq again. He’s going to have to. The problem is not that his speech Tuesday night failed to quell his critics: No speech could have done that. The problem is that his speech failed to reassure his worried supporters.
Those of us who support this president and this   more

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