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...scholar of international relations, May has published extensively on historical reasoning and policy analysis. He turned to European history in his latest book, Strange History: Hitler’s Conquest of France, which was published...
...concept of election puts enormous pressure on them to try to live up to the measure of God—a moral outlook that does not tempt many converts, and has made Jews notoriously susceptible to political defeat. By contrast, Islam is a religion that has affirmed itself through conquest. Along with its humanitarian and spiritual teachings, the sword is one of its proudest symbols, and the current effort to increase its numbers, including in America, is part of this drive for universal reach. Is there anything wrong with that? Perhaps not. But why should Islam’s drive...
...Five Arab countries invaded Israel, vowing in the words of the Secretary-General of the Arab League, that “this will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades. Israel’s conquest of what was formerly the West Bank of Jordan in 1967 was the result of the Arab war against the Jewish state, the so-called occupation of those disputed territories cannot retroactively have become its cause...
...their syrupy pleasantness, would fit in quite well at Disney. Clad in their bright red frocks for Freshman Week, the Crimson Key are as unmistakable as an army of Brazilian tourists in matching fluorescent yellow t-shirts marching through Disney, their leader bouncing a flag as if on a conquest of a newly discovered land...
...story of a divorce: “People ask have you seen her/I say not for a while/I’m going to see my girlfriend way down in Argentina/We going to have a blast for a while.” Jagger’s last high-profile conquest may have been Brazilian, but it’s hard not to admire the emotional honesty of the man: It may be the closest you’ll get to feeling sorry for a rock star. Jagger’s still looking out for himself though: “Don?...