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Today’s read: part two of Michael J. Totten’s interview with Christopher Hitchens.
Christopher Hitchens, Michael J. Totten, Interview, Militant Islam, Religion, Blasphemy
A must-read: Michael J. Totten interviews Christopher Hitchens, Part One.
Blasphemy, Religion, Militant Islam, Interview, Michael J. Totten, Christopher Hitchens
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In another excellent column, Michael J. Totten interviews the vice president of Lebanon’s Kataeb (Phalangist) Party: Where the Middle East Fights Its Wars. I visited Lebanon after wrapping up my last trip to Iraq, and was pleasantly surprised all over again by how much nicer Beirut is than Baghdad ...
Michael Totten continues his must-read series on The Future of Iraq, Part IV. I don’t think many Iraqis today are afraid of the state. But everybody was terrified of Saddam Hussein’s totalitarian government. Speaking their minds could get them imprisoned or killed. It could get an entire family dragged ...
Robert Spencer is mixing it up with Michael J. Totten and Mary Madigan at Totten’s pad. Totten asks Spencer a good question about his announced participation in the “Pro-Koln” conference — a question I’ve brought up as well: If the nutjobs in Cologne did nothing but invite Pamela, why ...
Michael J. Totten, Iraq, Journalism, Baghdad, Military, Robert Spencer, Andrew Bostom
Michael J. Totten answers an attack from anti-Islam zealot Andrew Bostom: Arguing for Uncertainty. Andrew Bostom – pal of Robert Spencer and the deranged Pamela Geller – bizarrely accuses me of being an uninformed dogmatist for publishing a “roseate view” of Iraq, even though my article in question was ...
Michael J. Totten, Iraq, Journalism, Baghdad, Military, Robert Spencer, Andrew Bostom
Michael J. Totten calls out Robert Spencer for a particularly uninformed comment about Iraq: We Are Not at War with Nouri al-Maliki. Robert Spencer, founder and lead writer for Jihad Watch, has a bit of trouble telling the difference between friend and foe in Iraq and still thinks, despite ...
Michael J. Totten, Iraq, Journalism, Baghdad, Military, Robert Spencer
Part three of Michael Totten’s must-read series on The Future of Iraq: The United States has basically won the war in Iraq. No insurgent or terrorist group can declare victory or claim Americans are evacuating Iraq’s cities because they were beaten. America’s most modest foreign policy objectives there have ...
Michael Totten talks with the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg about The Real Quagmire in the Middle East. MJT: You have talked to Hamas people. Should the Israelis or Americans talk to them? Goldberg: I don’t know what they’d get out of it. MJT: What did you get out of it ...
Michael J. Totten, Middle East, Journalism, Israel, Palestinians, Hamas
Michael J. Totten has posted the second part of his look at The Future of Iraq. A must-read, for the kind of reporting the mainstream media no longer does. The first time I visited Baghdad, I only stayed for a week. The place stressed me out. The surge was ...
Michael Totten has posted the first of a four-part series exploring the big issue on everyone’s minds: The Future of Iraq. Iraq has never been successfully governed by anyone but a strongman. You might even say Iraq has never been successfully governed at all. Who today sincerely believes the ...
Here’s Michael Totten’s account of Christopher Hitchens and the Battle of Beirut. Christopher was encircled by four or five of them. They were geared up to smash him, and I reached for his hand to pull him away. One of the toughs clawed at my arm and left me ...
Christopher Hitchens, Lebanon, Syria, SSNP, Michael J. Totten
Michael J. Totten: A Dispatch from the Border with Gaza.
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Michael J. Totten
A must-read presentation by Jerusalem Post journalist Khaled Abu Toameh, at Totten’s place: A Minority Report from the West Bank and Gaza. There are so many things that are obvious in this part of the world that international leaders, diplomats, all these people in the West who are dealing ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Michael J. Totten, Khaled Abu Toameh
Michael J. Totten points out some simple realities about the intractable Arab-Israel conflict that most of the world spends an enormous amount of energy ignoring: The Mother of All Quagmires. The problem here isn’t just with the worst of the violent rejectionists. Even the moderates on each side remain ...
Palestinians, Hamas, Gaza, Terrorism, Israel, Right of Return, Michael J. Totten
Another gripping report from Iraq by Michael J. Totten, On the Hunt in Baghdad. Hit Michael’s tip jar while you’re there and help support him to write more of these pieces; the mainstream media sure aren’t!
An interesting piece on The (Really) Moderate Muslims of Kosovo by Michael Totten in the new City Journal. Kosovo’s brand of Islam may be the most liberal in the world. I saw no more women there wearing conservative Islamic clothing—one or two per day at most—than I’ve seen in ...
Another must-read from Michael J. Totten in Iraq: The Final Mission, Part III. No excerpt this time; just go read the whole thing. You’ll be glad you did.
Michael J. Totten interviews an Iraqi translator for US forces, in another of his must-read reports from the ground in Iraq: Michael J. Totten: An Iraqi Interpreter’s Story. MJT: Why do you work with Americans? Hammer: When I was 14 years old all I liked was American cars and American ...
Michael J. Totten has another riveting report from Baghdad: Baghdad Raid Night. BAGHDAD – “We want to use you as bait,” Sergeant Eduardo Ojeda from Los Angeles, California, told me before I embedded with his unit on what was shaping up to be a night raid. “Excellent,” I said. “That’s ...
Michael J. Totten gives us some much-needed perspective on Hezbollah’s Christian Allies. BEIRUT – While Hezbollah staged a mass protest and sit-in downtown Beirut with the hopes of ousting the elected anti-Syrian “March 14” government, I watched from the patio of a café across the street. Sitting at the next ...
Lebanon, Michael J. Totten, Hizballah, Hesbollah, Michael Aoun
Here’s an excellent post by Michael J. Totten, who visited Ramallah, talked to quite a few Palestinians, and brought back a batch of interesting photographs: The Other Side of the Green Line. I beg to differ with Michael, however, on his characterization of Arafat mouthpiece Saeb Erekat as “one of ...
Michael J. Totten visits the Lebanon-Israel border, where everything could explode at any moment as Iran has set up a sophisticated surveillance network to identify targets in Israel.
Michael J. Totten has an open letter to Hizballah’s Media Relations person, Hussein Naboulsi. I know you’re still monitoring my Web site. At least you kept monitoring me long after the two of us stopped talking – if “talking” is the right word. One of my colleagues said you told ...