John Price, Friday May 30, 2014 In Syria how will the U.S. clearly define moderate opposition groups? That has become a major difficulty as well in Libya. Rebel groups break down into tribes, clans, and broader religious factions—some with fundamentalist beliefs, while others have a more radical interpretation of Islam which includes armed jihad. In […]
Read MoreSpecial Panel on Benghazi Needed for Answers
By John Price, Monday May 12, 2014 We could have learned a lesson from the terrorist attacks on the U.S. embassies in Lebanon and Kuwait in 1983. The State Department did not heed these early warnings. In 1998 terrorists again attacked two U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The State Department needed to protect Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, […]
Read MoreNigeria’s Boko Haram shows radical Islam is growing in Africa – Heard on Fox News
Former U.S. Ambassador John Price told Fox News’ Lauren Green the U.S. is putting “blinders on” and ignoring the threat posed by the Nigeria-based terrorist group Boko Haram. He says the militant group’s current violent streak is a result of Africa “not being on our radar screen.” “Congressional [leaders] don’t know much about what is […]
Read MoreThe 9/11 Memorial Museum Film Tells the Truth
By John Price, Monday April 28, 2014 An Interfaith panel and several Muslim organizations are upset over the film “The Rise of al-Qaeda” depicting the September 11, 2001 terrorist attackers as Islamic jihadists. They do not want the world to believe the hijackers that carried out the heinous attacks against the United States were linked […]
Read MoreGunboat Diplomacy in China Sea Can Lead to a Red Line
By John Price, Thursday April 17, 2014 The United States may be heading for another Red Line moment–this time with China. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel making his fourth trip to the China Sea region recently, wanted to reassure Japan and other nations that the U.S. stands with them if China pursues stated territorial annexation. The “Sleeping […]
Read MoreKeep Your Friends Close, But Your Enemies Closer
Opinion/Commentary By John Price, Tuesday April 8, 2014 This old cliché is still apropos in President Barrack Obama’s saber-rattling standoff with President Vladimir Putin. In Europe last week Mr. Obama said that Russia was a declining “regional power”. In seizing Crimea, Mr. Putin was expanding Russia’s influence over Ukraine–part of the lost former Soviet Empire–was the […]
Read MoreConflict Resolution Through Sports
By John Price, Tuesday February 11, 2014 “Sport has the power to unite people in a way that little else does” – Nelson Mandela It has been twenty years since the genocide that devastated Rwanda. Over 800,000 people lost their lives—for no other reason than belonging to the wrong tribe. The slaughter by the Hutus […]
Read MoreAl-Qaeda’s Presence Has Not Been Diminished
By John Price, Tuesday February 4, 2014 In the 1980’s the U.S. supported the Mujahideen in Afghanistan in their fight against the Soviets. Our ally was Osama bin Laden who organized his Arab fighters to help defeat the Soviets. When the dictator, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990 Osama bin Laden offered to bring his […]
Read MoreCultural Diversity Seen Through the Eyes of African Artists
By John Price, Wednesday January 29, 2014 In July 2012, I wrote the article “Artistic Endeavor: Can Change the Face of Africa”, after attending the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab production of “Africa Kills Her Sun”, or “Afrika Inaua Mwangaza Wake” in Kiswahili. The play had a cast of three African actors and one American, who […]
Read MoreBeirut to Benghazi: We Didn’t Learn a Lesson
By John Price, Wednesday January 22, 2014 We could have learned a lesson from the thirty-six terrorist attacks against Americans in Lebanon in the early 1980’s. The U.S. Embassy in Beirut was bombed in April 1983, killing 63 people. In October truck bombs struck two barracks housing a U.S.-led peacekeeping force in which over 200 […]
Read MoreA Giant is Gone But His Legacy Lives On
By John Price, Thursday December 5, 2013 Nelson Mandela at age 95, lost his battle with respiratory failure, reportedly, the result of recurring infections contracted during his years of prison confinement. Mr. Mandela had spent almost 27 years in a prison cell, eighteen years of which were on Robben Island. His incarceration emboldened thousands of […]
Read MoreSomalia: Education is the Best Way to Defeat Al-Shabaab
By John Price, Tuesday December 3, 2013 In Somalia each day dozens of children twelve years and older are recruited into the ranks of al-Shabaab, the local terrorist organization. Killing an Islamist leader or two will not change the attacks they incur at home, in neighboring countries, and against Western interests. Until recently the United States had all […]
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