This push to eliminate victims' rights is a big, messy, costly embarrassment, even for the extremist groups this bill represents.
"If the Libyan conflict had gone on for longer, there would have been an even greater flow of weapons and an even greater opportunity for extremists to take hold in Libya," he said.
And the very fractiousness of the opposition that Sunni extremism fosters is increasingly allowing extremist elements to define the anti-Assad forces — fueling further fractiousness and, in a vicious cycle, creating even more openings for extremists.
Before the Pentagon goes any further, President Bush must work a lot harder to restore democracy — the best hope for holding off the chaos that would make Pakistan an even more hospitable host for extremists.
As someone who opposed Iraq, Obama should have learned this fundamental lesson - don't needlessly turn the region into an even bigger recruiting ground for extremists.
And it can be simpler to try to pretend the problem will go away – even though that leaves a vacuum for extremists to exploit.
In France, for example, even the extremists, the heads of the fundamentalist groups, talked to me about how they would really like to go to America, because the thing that America promises to immigrants is a chance of success.
He's too extremist even for a Republican president.
Even Kuwait, probably the biggest single source of private funding for extremists fighting in Syria, has cracked down.
But even that can be a source of dissonance — several of the pages have become magnets for extremists hawking the bizarre theory that the killings in Newtown were a hoax intended to advance the cause of gun control.
