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June 7, 2007
Echoes of the Future
THE FACE OF TERROR is constantly evolving as terrorist tactics, and even the foot soldiers trying to attack America, change. When authorities announced last weekend that they had foiled a plot de...
June 6, 2007
Securing the New Strategic Gulf
In his 2006 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush issued a call for the United States to "replace more than 75 percent of our oil imports from the Middle East by 2025" and to "make...
June 5, 2007
Before Talking, See if There is Anything to Talk About
Recently, writing in The Washington Post, US Congressman Darrell Issa made "the case for talking to Syria." However, implementing his proposal would effectively reverse years of multilateral US p...
June 4, 2007
Next Year in Jerusalem
Forty years ago this week, on the third day of the Six-Day War, Israel entered the Old City of Jerusalem. Returning to the Western Wall from which he and all other Jews had, in blatant violation...
June 4, 2007
Military Judge Dismisses Commission Charges Against Omar Khadr
When it comes to figuring out who is with al Qaeda, Omar Khadr is not a close case. In July 2002, Khadr was on the battlefield in Afghanistan, aligned with al Qaeda. During a ferocious f...
June 4, 2007
Quick Lessons From the JFK Plot
The announcement by U.S. authorities of the arrest of three men and the search for another man, all implicated (allegedly by legal perspective) in a plot to kill thousands of people in an...
June 3, 2007
Register’s Last Hurrah?
To understand the challenge faced by Al-Hurra, the U.S. taxpayer-financed Arabic TV network, consider the case of Yasser Thabet. For years, Mr. Thabet has been a leading figure in shaping news co...
June 2, 2007
Killing America…Twice
War is about breaking the enemy’s will. Having laid bare the sorry state of our brains and our guts, jihadists are now zeroing in on the will’s final piece: our hearts. That...
May 30, 2007
Building Security by Ending Impunity: The Trial of Charles Taylor
This being a column devoted to terrorism and other security issues affecting Africa, it regrettably must devote most of its coverage to the bad news of which the continent is all too familiar: po...
May 30, 2007
Defeating a Superpower
To those who see the world through a partisan prism, last week’s congressional vote to continue funding American troops in Iraq looks like a loss for Democrats. On the contrary: Those Democ...
May 30, 2007
Derrotando a Una Superpotencia
A los que vean el mundo a través de un prisma partidista, el voto en el Congreso de Estados Unidos la semana pasada para seguir financiando a las tropas americanas en Irak parece una derro...
May 27, 2007
On Memorial Day We Remember the Fallen
I was born at Fort Carson hospital, to a young West Point graduate from Puerto Rico, and his wife, a beautiful young refugee of the Cuban revolution. My earliest memories are of the U.S. Army tak...
May 26, 2007
Using Mickey Mouse to Incite Terror
THE WORLD REACTED in horror the other week as video spread over newscasts and the Internet of beloved children’s character Mickey Mouse being used to incite Palestinian children to hatred a...
May 24, 2007
U.N.’s Reading List for N. Korea
Not only has the United Nations been caught funneling cash to the rogue regime of North Korea's Kim Jong Il, but it's now emerging that the U.N. Development Program was ordering up book...
May 24, 2007
Prisoner of Her Desires
IN the United States and in Europe, there is a widespread belief that the Bush administration has failed to engage Iran diplomatically. Among the advisers to the Iraq Study Group, of which I was...
May 23, 2007
The Turkish Model
Why aren’t more moderate Muslims protesting against Islamism? Actually, hundreds of thousands have been doing exactly that -- marching in the streets of Turkey’s major cities to insis...
May 23, 2007
Smokin’ on Somalia
Last week, my colleague at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), Andrew McCarthy; the former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York who led the pros...
May 23, 2007
Things Fall Apart, Again
Perhaps the single most surprising, and enchanting, thing about Lebanon is the stillness of the place. High above Beirut on Mount Lebanon, signs at the Monastery of Saint Maron-Anaya admonish vis...
May 23, 2007
El Modelo Turco
¿Por qué no hay más musulmanes moderados protestando contra el islamismo? En realidad, cientos de miles lo han estado haciendo – desfilando por las calles de las princi...
May 22, 2007
Preoccupied with Democracy in Iraq
Kudos to former Senator Bob Kerrey. The Nebraska Democrat has written a stirring opinion piece i...
May 18, 2007
Crying Wolfowitz
For two of Paul Wolfowitz's most prominent critics, Mark Malloch Brown and Ad Melkert, the war over the World Bank presidency could not have come at a better time. Whatever else the ousting...
May 16, 2007
Federal Judge Intrudes Upon Executive Authority to Designate Terrorist Organizations
In an epic litigation already immensely damaging to government’s anti-terrorism arsenal, a California federal court has yet again invalidated a law that bars private individuals from...
May 16, 2007
Vulnerability of Nigerian Oil Infrastructure Threatens U.S. Interests
Last Friday, oil prices climbed toward $67.00 a barrel as supply disruptions in Nigeria compounded concerns about insufficient gasoline inventory levels in the United States; which have been decl...
May 16, 2007
Brits Bash Bolton
To understand why the Bush administration has become so unpopular in the United Kingdom, one needn’t look much further than the utterly misleading headline that screamed across Wednesday&rs...
May 15, 2007
Take the Lute
Maybe there really is a newsworthy story in the appointment of General Lute as special assistant to the President for Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet the story is both more mundane and more interesting...
May 12, 2007
Call It the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Dictatorships
With Zimbabwe elected Friday to chair the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, we now have the latest poster-child for the usual U.N. Orwellian abuse of the noble mandate, glorio...
May 10, 2007
Additional Sparks Fly in the Horn of Africa
A little less than year ago, I appeared before a joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations and the Subcommittee on International Terrorism and...
May 10, 2007
A New French Resistance
The electoral victory by Nicolas Sarkozy is the product of the French public's rejection of a decay eroding the foundations of the Fifth Republic since its inception in 1958. The country...
May 10, 2007
Know Thy Enemies
SOMETIMES WHAT WE DON'T KNOW can indeed hurt us. This was the case in 2006, when reporters noticed significant fighting between Iraqi insurgent factions. This confused journalists and govern...
May 9, 2007
Lock and Load Your Portfolio
What can you, an average citizen, do to help defend America against terrorists sworn to our destruction? How about not investing in them? A campaign to cut off such investments is gainin...
May 9, 2007
No Better Friend?
AS THE DEBATE HEATS UP about whether the United States should set a deadline for withdrawal from Iraq, little attention has focused on the effect such a move would have on America's allies i...
May 9, 2007
Prepárese a Luchar con su Cartera de Inversiones
¿Qué es lo que Ud., un ciudadano promedio, puede hacer para ayudar a que Estados Unidos se defienda de los terroristas que han jurado destruirnos? Hay...
May 9, 2007
French Resistance to Jihadism
When I was leaving Paris at the end of October 2005 after a visit to France, I had two things in mind: First, I had seen the beginning of the urban intifada, which would soon engulf about two hun...
May 8, 2007
Fort Dix Jihad: The Media Misses the Point
The mainstream media is atwitter this morning over the six Muslim men arrested in south Jersey for conspiring “to kill as many soldiers as possible” at the Fort Dix U.S. army base. Th...
May 7, 2007
Bush Plummets…As He Wins the Argument
Polls taken through Iraq’s thick prism reflect increasing public disenchantment with the Bush presidency. The economy hums and the stock market climbs daily to heights previously unknown, b...
May 5, 2007
The Return of Moral Equivalence
“...the argument artfully directs attention away from an obvious evil—the catastrophic humanitarian disaster in Darfur...—in order to refocus it on a series of less obvious supp...
May 3, 2007
Global Air Carrier Suspended in U.N. Procurement Investigation
Co-Authored with George Russell The grinding investigation of scandal in the United Nations’ multi-billion-dollar procurement department — an inquiry that has gone o...
May 2, 2007
Too Many Micromanagers
In January, Gen. David Petraeus was unanimously confirmed by the Senate as the top American commander in Iraq. He and his troops are now on the battlefield pursuing a dramatically different strat...
May 2, 2007
Nigeria Teeters Back from the Brink — For Now
Two weeks ago in this column space I observed that free, fair, and credible elections in Nigeria "would lead to the inauguration of a legitimate political order;[which] would not only consolidate...
May 2, 2007
Saving the World
For their May/June issue, the editors of Foreign Policy magazine asked 21 “leading thinkers” to propose ideas to “save the world” -- or, failing that, to come up with &ldq...
May 2, 2007
Salvemos al mundo: Lo que piensan los profundos pensadores
Para su edición de mayo/junio, los editores de la revista Foreign Policy (Política Exterior) preguntaron a 21 “pensadores”de vanguardia” que propusieran ideas para...
May 2, 2007
The Uncertainty Dilemma
In Voltaire’s Micromegas, a gigantic visitor from another planet asks a sailor why humans bicker so much. “Because we agree on the two or three things we understand,” explains t...
May 1, 2007
Symposium: Can This Washington Be Saved? Can This War?
President Bush had no choice but to veto a bill that would have undermined an American commander on the battlefield, a bill that would have legislated a consequential American defeat. Th...
April 30, 2007
Mad TV
Testifying under oath recently, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice misled Congress in her strong defense of Al-Hurra, the taxpayer financed Arab TV network. It was unwitting, though. She herself...
April 30, 2007
Making Sense of a Senseless War
Since most of the coverage on the Sierra Leonean war has focused on the brutal outbursts of violence — exemplified by the quasi-voyeuristic broadcast media fixation on the ‘rebel hand...
April 29, 2007
Tenet Does 60 Minutes
Hawking his new book, At the Eye of the Storm, former CIA Director George Tenet bared his soul Sunday night to Scott Pelley of the CBS news magazine, 60 Minutes. Some preliminary thoughts about h...
April 26, 2007
Middle East Strongmen, Ancient and Modern
The war in Iraq has exposed fissures in the structure of that modern Middle Eastern state earlier camouflaged by Arab nationalism and Saddam's brutal rule. While Arab leaders speak of unity,...
April 26, 2007
Last Lap in Iraq
When President Truman sent General Matthew Ridgeway to replace Douglas MacArthur, a surprise Chinese offensive had pushed American forces all the way back to the starting line of the Korean War....
April 25, 2007
New Fronts Call for New Capacities
As a longtime advocate for the creation of a unified regional combatant command for Africa; an idea for which, in a column published in this very space last year, I argued "the time is now"; I wa...
April 25, 2007
Gacetilleros o portavoces?
A los periodistas por lo general se les acusa de parcialidad. Raras son las veces que se aplican a sí mismos esa imputación. Pero los 35.000 miembros del Sindicato Nacional de Perio...
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