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January 17, 2007
Practicando windsurf en Guantánamo
Hace 5 años este mes, se abrió una instalación americana en la bahía de Guantánamo, Cuba para hospedar a los combatientes más peligrosos capturados en la...
January 17, 2007
Somalia May Save the War on Terrorism
In my last column in this series, I argued that while “Ethiopia may not have been the ideal intervener in Somalia, better it than no one and perhaps the one thing worse than Ethiopia interv...
January 17, 2007
Windsurfing to Guantánamo
Five years ago this month, an American facility was opened in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to house the most dangerous combatants captured in the global war against Militant Islamism. To commemora...
January 16, 2007
UNder the Law
In what surely qualifies as the single-most-promising United Nations reform effort to date, federal prosecutors in New York, jointly with the New York District Attorney, have just announced the i...
January 16, 2007
The Pot Calling the Kettle “Interim”
In lambasting the Bush administration for politicizing the appointment of the nation’s United States attorneys, Democrats may be on the verge of redefining chutzpah. The campaign i...
January 14, 2007
The Stability Dodge
When last we noted CBS News, it was trying to topple the Bush administration in the 2004 campaign, courtesy of Dan Rather’s ham-handed document fraud. If you want to indulge a fiction, you...
January 12, 2007
Reach Out To Cuba’s People
With Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visiting Venezuela today, it might be a good time to consider another "change in course" for U.S. policy. The isolation of Cuba, a legacy of the Cold Wa...
January 11, 2007
Getting Iraq to Work
The American mission in Iraq must succeed. Our goal--promoting a stable, accountable democracy in the heart of the Middle East--cannot be achieved by purely military means. Iraqis nee...
January 11, 2007
Opposing View: Don’t Accept Defeat
Opponents of President Bush's plan for salvaging the dire situation in Iraq have every right to speak out. And those in Congress who believe it pointless to do anything other than accept def...
January 11, 2007
Resurrecting Somalia
As of this week, the United States is directly engaged in Somalia, Ethiopian forces are successfully advancing and Al-Qaeda and Islamic Courts Union (ICU) fighters have been effectively cornered-...
January 9, 2007
Symposium: Surge Scoring
Clifford D. May There are really only three options: 1) Stay the course. At this point, just about everyone believes the course we have followed for the past year has not worked....
January 9, 2007
El momento de la paz en Oriente Medio: No es ahora
Resolver el conflicto árabe-israelí sería algo maravilloso. Pero la realidad nos dice que por más de medio siglo, todos los presidentes americanos han intentado encont...
January 9, 2007
A Time for Middle East Peace
Resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict would be a wonderful thing. But the reality is that for more than a half century, every American president has attempted to find a magic formula that would bri...
January 9, 2007
Don’t Get Too Excited about the President’s Warning to Iran and Syria
Supporters of the war on terror — the global war against jihadists as distinguished from its isolated battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan — were surely heartened last night by Presid...
January 9, 2007
Religion of Peace?
Islam is quintessentially tolerant. Its adherents are hospitable to liberty, equality, and pluralism, the rudiments of modern democracy. Those committing terror in its name are heretics — a...
January 8, 2007
9/11 Commission Day
A lack of seriousness, the chasm between frivolous campaign rhetoric and real-world governing, and the politicizing of our national security — the one subject always claimed to be above suc...
January 8, 2007
Strikes in Somalia
On Sunday, a United States Air Force AC-130 gunship launched a strike against what Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman on Tuesday called “principal al-Qaeda leadership” operating in sout...
January 4, 2007
Sex Tips From the Marquise de Pompadour
Authored by Alykhan Velshi Some study history for knowledge, others to honor their ancestors, but few, I suspect, do so to improve their sex lives. This is most unfortunate, si...
January 4, 2007
Sweeping Up in Somalia
The reports continue to stream in of the hasty retreat of the militants of Somalia's Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in the face of an unexpectedly heavy offensive by Ethiopian air and land force...
January 2, 2007
Ban’s Burden
As the new secretary general of the UN, South Korea's Ban Ki-moon faces a choice: style himself as the next self-serving pop star of global diplomacy or dedicate himself more humbly and brav...
January 2, 2007
Singing CAIR’s Tune, On Your Dime
On a weekend when the Bush administration achieved a new CAIR-friendly low, a prominent Democrat, following the lead of other prominent Democrats, distanced herself very publicly from the unsavor...
January 1, 2007
Is The Nation State Threatened?
“Is the Nation State Threatened?” This question, though apt, may fail to convey how dire the threat to sovereignty truly is. It might be better to ask, “Is the Nation Stat...
December 30, 2006
Gentlemen, Start Your Plug-Ins
An oil and security task force of the Council on Foreign Relations recently opined that "[t]he voices that espouse 'energy independence' are doing the nation a disservice by focusing on...
December 29, 2006
Justice for Saddam, Precedent for the Future
There’s plenty to be miserable about where Iraq is concerned these days. Few still think the sacrifices the U.S. and its partners have made during the war worthwhile; and the world watches...
December 29, 2006
In Somalia, An Africa Hawk Rises
With most Westerners in the throes of holiday mirth this week, an estimated 20,000 Ethiopian troops deployed to neighboring Somalia went on the offensive against the forces of the Islamic Courts...
December 29, 2006
Why We Need More Troops in Iraq
I've just spent 10 days traveling in the Middle East and speaking to leaders there, all of which has made one thing clearer to me than ever: While we are naturally focused on Iraq, a larger...
December 27, 2006
Diplomacy Theater
Last week saw two new episodes in the opera buffa of modern American diplomacy. The Six-Party Talks on North Korea suffered a brief relapse in Beijing (just long enough for the U.S. to get slappe...
December 26, 2006
The Dark Fate of Christians Under Palestinian Rule
Having failed to bribe the Islamic Republic Iran out of its nuclear ambitions, the State Department is putting on its cheeriest face after Saturday’s Security Council resolution, imposing t...
December 26, 2006
Symposium: Best Books of 2006
For my money, the most important book of 2006 was Melanie Phillip's Londonistan. It is a real eye-opene...
December 26, 2006
Symposium: Predictions for 2007
Was it Yogi Berra or Casey Stengel who said: “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future”? Either way, that has never been truer than it is today; the world has...
December 26, 2006
Sending the Mullahs to Bed Without Supper
Having failed to bribe the Islamic Republic Iran out of its nuclear ambitions, the State Department is putting on its cheeriest face after Saturday’s Security Council resolution, imposing t...
December 22, 2006
Nigeria’s Electoral Intrigue
It barely registers on inside-the-Beltway policy discussions, but few countries are as vital to the strategic interests of the United States as Nigeria. With some 35.9 billion barrels of proven p...
December 21, 2006
The Next Sudanese Conflict
Almost all of the attention which policymakers in the West have given to Sudan over the course of the last year has been rightly focused on what even the United Nations describes as "the world�...
December 20, 2006
Correspondence Course
How often have you heard journalists tell politicians they should admit their mistakes rather than equivocate or cover up? So when a major mainstream newspaper makes an error how is it handled?...
December 20, 2006
Curso por Correspondencia
¿Con cuánta frecuencia ha oído Ud. a los periodistas diciendo a los políticos que deberían admitir sus errores en vez de dar una respuesta ambigua o de encubrir...
December 19, 2006
Mystery Surfaces Over Apartment of Kofi Annan
As Secretary-General Annan prepares to leave his post at the United Nations, a mystery is surfacing surrounding his apartment on Roosevelt Island, subsidized by New York taxpayers, which is still...
December 18, 2006
Time’s Up
This weekend, Time magazine announced that...
December 15, 2006
Tis the Season in Darfur
As much of the Western world busies itself with merriment in preparation for the celebrations of Chanukah and Christmas, the light is fading rapidly in the scarred vastness of Darfur. In the late...
December 14, 2006
Misjudging Charity
Authored by Alykhan Velshi & Howard Anglin The charitable reputation of the American people, much remarked in these pages, is well-deserved. Whether it is to earthquake vict...
December 14, 2006
Not Being Had by Al-Itihaad
The news from the Horn of Africa continues to be worrisome. The recent catastrophic floods that swept through the region have not slowed the advance of the radical Islamists, who in June seized c...
December 13, 2006
Un Plan para Irak
Tuve el privilegio de servir como uno de los “expertos” consejeros del Grupo de Estudio sobre Irak (Iraq Study Group, ISG por sus siglas en inglés) junto con ex embajadores y o...
December 13, 2006
A Plan for Iraq
I was privileged to serve as one of the “expert” advisors to the Iraq Study Group (ISG), along with former ambassadors and CIA operatives, retired military officers and distinguished...
December 13, 2006
Three-Layered Conflicts
The conventional wisdom is that every crisis in Lebanon has three dimensions: domestic, regional, and international. The current crisis in that country is a good example of this. Domesti...
December 12, 2006
Iran Needs a Change of Direction
Iran’s President, M Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently sent a letter to the American people explaining his views and the views of his regime regarding America, its values and US policy worldwide....
December 12, 2006
Opportunity Lost
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan delivered his farewell speech Monday, squandering yet another opportunity to apologize for his failures and come clean about the U.N. Instead, he used...
December 11, 2006
Iron Lady: Remembering Jeane Kirkpatrick
It’s easy to forget how grim a scene confronted America when Jeane Kirkpatrick in November, 1979, published her famous essay in Commentary Magazine, on "Dictatorships and Double Standards."...
December 11, 2006
Pinochet is History
A Spanish joke: a reporter traveled to Spain to learn what people think of Franco. Upon arriving in a village, the reporter asked one man, but the man insisted they walk out into the countr...
December 8, 2006
Negotiate with Iran?
The Iraq Study Group’s call for negotiations with Iran and Syria as “a way forward” has been widely derided. It is, abjectly, a return to September 10th thinking — to the...
December 8, 2006
Hezbollah Offensive in Lebanon: Days One, Two, and Three
DAY ONE After serious warnings delivered by Hezbollah secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah since early November, the generalized offensive to bring down the Cedars Revol...
December 7, 2006
The Time Is Now for a U.S. Africa Command
The last major overhaul of the United States military – the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986 (PL 99-433) – created nine unified combatant commands &n...
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