Many pundits remarked that we saw neither hide nor hair of anything related to national security or foreign policy in the platforms of any of the main parties during the election campaign.
Category: Perspectives
Our focus on Western victims of Islamist terrorism is understandable but misplaced: the vast majority of those targeted are Muslim.
Declaring ‘victory’ over a terrorist group/terrorism may be a nice sound bite, but it is rarely accurate.
The conflict in Yemen is complicated: war and terrorism are killing thousands and no one seems to care.
On December 4, 1971 the Ulster Volunteer Force exploded a bomb at a bar called McGurk’s in a Catholic neighbourhood of Belfast, killing 15 and wounding 17.
On this day in 1975, six armed men boarded a train at the Dutch town of Assen and seized the passengers as hostages.
The recent Canadian federal election bucked Western trends by rejecting populism – and that is indeed a good thing!
We usually associate marriage with the phrase “till death do us part”: this couple took the words literally.
Recent attacks by a jihadi group in Mozambique demonstrate that this brand of terrorism is not going away: quite the opposite.
The simple truth is that there are no simple answers on what to do with terrorists: let’s stop pretending there are.