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July 25, 2007
Imaginando la Derrota
Sólo por argumentar, imagine que los opositores de la guerra en Irak tienen razón. Suponga que nuestro ejército – diseñado para enfrentar a un enemigo distinto,...
July 25, 2007
Mired in Mogadishu
Two weeks ago a "national reconciliation congress" that Somalia's ineffectual "Transitional Federal Government" (TFG), under pressure from international donors who are its only means of supp...
July 25, 2007
Suicide Reversal?
As is the case for most surveys of public opinion in the Muslim world, the Pew survey is a mixed bag. It is encouraging that support for suicide bombings has declined in seven of the eight countr...
July 25, 2007
Imagining Defeat
For the sake of argument, imagine that opponents of the war in Iraq are right. Suppose that our military — designed to confront a different enemy, on a different battlefield, in a different...
July 22, 2007
Degrees of Enmity and the “War on Terrorism”
Last Tuesday, the Bush Administration released portions of a new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on The Terrorist Threat to the U.S. Homeland. The first of the "key judgments" of the NIE com...
July 22, 2007
Give War a Chance!
Two items in the batch of international news and commentary at the end of last week strike us as particularly noteworthy, justifying our recall in a new context of the title of P.J. O'Rourke...
July 18, 2007
The Indian Tiger’s African Safari
While the African travels of Chinese leaders and their troubling arms sales to regimes on the continent, have caused increasing concern in Washington and other Western capitals, India's grow...
July 18, 2007
The First Openly Muslim Priest
The day before the Episcopal Church's House of Bishops voted to confirm the church's first openly gay bishop in the late summer of 2003, conservative humor website ScrappleFace satirize...
July 18, 2007
Know Thine Enemies
It would be nice — or at least more convenient — if America could fight just one enemy at a time. But that’s seldom how it works. World War II was called a world war fo...
July 18, 2007
Conozca a sus Enemigos
Sería agradable – o por lo menos más conveniente – que Estados Unidos pudiera luchar sólo contra un enemigo a la vez. Pero raramente funciona así....
July 16, 2007
We Need a National Security Court
In this 2006 white paper, which will be incorporated in a forthcoming AEI book on Outsourcing American Law, Andrew McCarthy, director of FDD’s Center for Law & Counterterrorism, explore...
July 16, 2007
Preventing the West from Understanding Jihad
In the years that followed 9/11, two phenomena characterized the Western public's understanding of the terrorists' ideology. The first characteristic stemmed from the statements made by...
July 16, 2007
Six-Party Celebration?
According to inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, North Korea has shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon. Those familiar with North Korea’s recent history are forgiven...
July 15, 2007
Musharraf Gets Tough
In a country that for the past year has consistently ceded ground to terrorists, the storming of the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad was a rare bit of good news. As Pakistani forces wrapped up the...
July 13, 2007
The ACLU Loses in Court
The American Civil Liberties Union's Steven Shapiro is one of the best lawyers in the United States. Still, he was flat wrong when he told the New York Times that a federal appeals court...
July 12, 2007
Duty, Honor, Country
Thursday’s interim progress report on the surge in Iraq ran into a long-expected cold shower: Nobody wants to hear it. Bad news out of Iraq is what the market wants. Signs of progress cause...
July 11, 2007
A New Strategy in Iraq?
Contrary to what you’ve read in the newspapers, we are not debating whether to “change course” in Iraq. We are debating whether to accept defeat in Iraq. Contrary to wh...
July 11, 2007
¿Una nueva estrategia en Irak?
Contrario a lo que Ud. haya leído en los periódicos, no estamos discutiendo si “cambiar el rumbo” en Irak. Estamos discutiendo si aceptar la derrota en Irak. Co...
July 10, 2007
The Security Challenge of West Africa’s New Drug Depots
Last week, gendarmes in the Senegal seaside resort of Nianing seized fifty-one 24-kilogram sacks containing a record 1.25 metric tons of cocaine with a street value of over $100 million....
July 10, 2007
Can the U.N’s Global Compact Initiative Teach Good Corporate Behavior?
Can the United Nations teach good corporate behavior? That’s the mission of a fast-growing UN initiative called the Global Compact – run out of the Secretary-General’s executive...
July 9, 2007
For Senator Clinton, It’s 1993 All over Again
I n February 1993, just days after their bomb failed to bring down the Twin Towers (though it did kill several people, injure over a thousand, and cause nearly a billion dollars in damage), jihad...
July 8, 2007
Living History .. with the New York Times
“U.S. Aborted Raid on Qaeda Chiefs in Pakistan in ‘05.” So blared the top headline of Sunday’s New York Times. Breathlessly, correspondent Mark Mazzetti reported...
July 4, 2007
The Moral Hazard of Kosovo’s Independence
Last week's summit between President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin resulted in no "grand bargain" that could pave the way for the birth of an independent Kosovo. The mo...
July 4, 2007
Cabinda: The “Forgotten Conflict” America Can’t Afford to Forget
Because of the sense of urgency repeatedly communicated by this column as well as the parallel efforts of other "Africa hands," the precarious situation of Nigeria – which I have described...
July 3, 2007
Iranian Trip Wire
The West's standoff with Iran reached an ominous point recently when Tehran hinted that it might expel inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency should the U.N. Security Council...
July 3, 2007
Let’s Accept the Truth of Our Own Defeats
As the current situation in Palestine worsens, let Arabs not forget their past. Events that are portrayed as victories by Arab politicians are not always victories for the Arab people. Last month...
July 2, 2007
Andrew McCarthy Discusses Al-Qaeda Prisoner Dentention Case
In this online debate, Senior Fellow Andrew McCarthy discusses the recent al-Marri case in which a divided panel of the Fourth Circuit held that the president could not...
July 1, 2007
Islamic Terror Strikes the U.K. …Again
The investigation of the latest terror plot to target the United Kingdom is very fluid. Right now, the headlines are these: There have been at least three attempted car-bomb attacks, the perpetra...
June 30, 2007
Beyond the Illusions
Steven Rosefielde and D. Quinn Mills, Masters of Illusion: American Leadership in the Media Age (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 568 pp., $34.00. As America's great exp...
June 27, 2007
Hu’s Selling Guns to Africa
In recent years, United States policy makers and analysts as well as American businesses and non-governmental organizations have begun paying closer attention to the already significant – a...
June 27, 2007
Insensatos en Gaza
“Los extremistas se asocian con extremistas”. Así decía esta semana la Secretaria de Estado, Condoleezza Rice, después de oír que Ayman al-Zawahri, el luga...
June 27, 2007
Feckless in Gaza
Extremists link up with extremists." So said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week upon hearing that Ayman al-Zawahri, the top deputy to Osama bin Laden, had released a message enthusiast...
June 26, 2007
The Hamas Blitzkrieg
Hamas‘ blitzkrieg in Gaza was “ordered” by the Tehran-Damascus “axis” to make the peace and democratic processes in Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Palestine crumble....
June 26, 2007
Light at the End of the Tunnel
If what goes up must come down, every surge must eventually recede. According to recent reports, the current one in Iraq may give way to large-scale withdrawals of U.S. forces as early as spring...
June 24, 2007
Hezbollah, Hamas, and Humanitarians
While most Middle East watchers know about the takeover of Gaza by Hamas and its transformation into the terrorist enclave of "Hamastan," readers of the mainstream press might be surprised to lea...
June 24, 2007
The Profession v. Gitmo
Continuing to beat the drum for a return to September 10th America, the Washington Post reported on Saturday that a military lawyer, fleetingly involved almost three years ago in assessing whethe...
June 22, 2007
Symposium: Strategies of Death
FP: Daveed Gartenstein Ross, Walid Phares, Steven Emerson and Bill Roggio, welcome to Frontpage Symposium. Daveed Gartenstein Ross, let’s begin with you....
June 21, 2007
The End of War as We Know It?
I have been following the Hamas takeover of Gaza with a sense of what Yogi Berra, in reference to Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, described as "déjà vu all over again." Almo...
June 21, 2007
Gaza: A Joint Iran-Syria Production
The latest dramatic military and terror events in Gaza and Lebanon can be viewed from a regional geopolitical perspective: A Syro-Iranian axis offensive on its (their) primarily western front str...
June 20, 2007
Dónde Lucharemos
Estados Unidos está en guerra contra al Qaeda – en eso seguro que podemos coincidir – y sabemos que al Qaeda tiene bases en Pakistán. De hecho, es probable que Osama bin...
June 20, 2007
Al Qaeda’s Franchise in Africa
More than a year ago, I inaugurated this column with an essay whose title – "The War on Terrorism's Forgotten Front" – laid out what has been one of the recurring themes of this...
June 20, 2007
Our Terrorists Are Better Than Your Terrorists
President Bush’s stirring post-9/11 message that regimes the world over have to choose between aligning with civilization or with terrorists should officially be interred in war-torn &ldquo...
June 19, 2007
A Gathering of BMWs & Tyrannies
Geneva — So, how many BMWs does it take to make one United Nations Human Rights Council? Many — to judge by the scene I came across Monday evening in the parking lot of the U...
June 17, 2007
Iranian Dissidents Gather To Discuss Regime Change
Regime change for Iran may be a dead letter in the loftiest councils of world affairs, but as a prime goal, it is very much alive in the plans of some 200 exiled Iranian dissidents who gathered h...
June 14, 2007
Symposium: Al Qaeda: What Next?
American intelligence has discerned that al Qaeda is rebuilding in Pakistan’s tribal areas and that a new generation of leaders has emerged under Osama bin Laden. T...
June 14, 2007
Syro-Iranian Massacre of Politicians in Lebanon
With the assassination of Lebanese MP Jebran Tueni in December 2006, months after the murder of political leaders George Hawi and Samir Qassir during the summer, the Syro-Iranian terror war room...
June 13, 2007
Jihad’s New Leaders
The recent deaths of prominent Al-Qaeda terrorists such as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq and Abu Hafs al-Urdani in Daghestan, as well as a host of less publicized kills and captures, have hastened...
June 13, 2007
Unhappy Anniversary
If one definition of mental illness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results — e.g. “this time the door will break, rather than my head” — tha...
June 13, 2007
Nigeria: Flailing State
On the final day of their summit last week at the German Baltic seaside resort of Heiligendamm, as they are nowadays wont to do, the leaders of the G8 received a select delegation of their Africa...
June 13, 2007
Infeliz Aniversario
El cuadragésimo aniversario de la Guerra de los Seis Días, acaecida del 5 al 10 de junio, dio pie a un aluvión de retrospectivas en los medios de comunicación. Menos a...
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