I originally posted this blog November, 2015--but feel it’s even more relevant now. It’s a “distant mirror” to the mounting hysteria in the United States and Europe today.
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Terrorism: Paris & Orlando-an Existential Crisis
Americans still reeling from the horrific attack in Orlando probably don’t know it, but Paris today is also staggered by another bloody terrorist killing: two police—an officer and his wife, who also worked for the police—were hacked to death late last night. The French are particularly stunned and outraged by the fact that the police couple were murdered in their own home—the husband stabbed to death—the wife’s neck slashed--in the presence of their three year old son, who survived.
Read MoreAmerica and Cuba: Right out of Orwell
For the first time since 1956, an American President has held substantive discussions with a Cuban head of state. The world is now poised for Barack Obama’s next Orwellian gambit: Removing Cuba from Washington’s list of state sponsors of terrorism.
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