Obama can’t restrain his anger over Bibi Netanyahu saying that Arab voters are turning out in droves prior to the Israeli election, but if coldblooded killers gun down Christians for their faith, he turns to careful verbal gymnastics.

As a matter of sheer intellectual honesty, we should be forthright about the religious hatred that motivates attacks on Christians.

One of the Garissa gunmen was a law-school graduate and son of a Kenyan government official, who presumably wasn’t driven into the arms of al-Shabab by blighted economic prospects.

If the administration worries about playing into the Islamist narrative of the Western “crusaders,” the 11th century wants its foreign policy back.