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May 17, 2009 Hezbollah’s Agenda in Lebanon This article was... May 14, 2009 Are Two States a Solution? Speaking to the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee the other day, Vice President Joe Biden said: "Israel has to work toward a two-state solution." "You&#03... May 14, 2009 A World Sliding Into Danger Time was when the sun never set on the British Empire. These days, it seems the sun never sets on a crisis. This week alone you can take your pick among the mysteries of the spreading swine flu,... May 8, 2009 Should Those Behind Torture Be Prosecuted? Imagine you are an intelligence officer in 2002, when journalist Daniel Pearl is being held captive by terrorists in Pakistan. You have an al Qaeda leader in custody. He knows who is holding Pear... May 7, 2009 Free Roxana Saberi! In September 1988, the Indian-born British writer Salman Rushdie published The Satanic Verses, a novel containing what some saw as an irreverent depiction of the prophet Mohammed. In February 198... May 7, 2009 U.S. Seeks To Join A Despots’ Club Saudi Arabia, Cuba, China, Russia, Cameroon, Djibouti. What do these countries all have in common? Yes, they are all systematic violators of human rights. Some of them, such as China, Cu... May 6, 2009 Why So Many Tamil “Moderates” Support the Tamil Tigers Yesterday, I... May 6, 2009 What to Do About Pakistan Pakistan is, at this point, undoubtedly more important to U.S. strategic interests than either Afghanistan or Iraq. A plethora of negative trends are converging there, including the recon... May 5, 2009 The Tamil Tigers Have Reaped What They’ve Sown The conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers has deep, tangled roots. But to a rough order of magnitude, the moral stakes can be reduced to a single act of terrorist savage... May 3, 2009 Report from Afghanistan Kabul, Afghanistan “Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.” Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz The first thing that strikes you getting off the plane in... May 1, 2009 Saying No to Justice I did something today that I’ve never done before. The Department of Justice, which I proudly served for a quarter century as an assistant U.S. attorney and a deputy U.S. marshal, asked me... April 30, 2009 Torture TV When I was asked to appear on The Daily Show, the news-with-views edgy-comedy TV program, I was reluctant. The issue: whether “enhanced interrogation techniques” used to pry informati... April 30, 2009 Lives For Sale Probing President Obama's resolve, North Korea is now cranking its nuclear extortion routine into high gear. Following its April 5 illicit test of a ballistic missile, Kim Jong Il's reg... April 28, 2009 Homegrown Terrorists in the U.S. and U.K. The Center for Terrorism Research has released its newest study, Homegrown Terrorists in the U.S. and U.K.: An Empirical Study of the Radicalization Process, by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross a... April 25, 2009 Fixing Our Pakistan Problem This article was published in The Journal of International Security Affairs (No. 16, Spring 2009).... April 25, 2009 What Was the CIA Up To? This is a delicate business involving some unpleasantness; it must be entrusted to the hands and tongues and pens of men who are completely above suspicion and without self-interest, for the weal... April 23, 2009 Shock Therapy Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the mastermind behind the terrorist atrocities of Sept. 11, 2001. If U.S. intelligence operatives had spotted him in a remote area of Pakistan and killed him with a Pre... April 23, 2009 The U.N.’s Durban II Debacle GENEVA -- As I write this, the United Nations Durban Review Conference on "racism" is still officially in session, stumbling toward the close, on Friday, of its five-day run at the U.N.'s pa... April 20, 2009 The Memos Prove We Didn’t Torture The four memos on CIA interrogation released by the White House last week reveal a cautious and conservative Justice Department advising a CIA that cared deeply about staying within the law. Far... April 16, 2009 Romancing the Jihad Ask those on the Left what values they champion, and they will say equality, tolerance, women’s rights, gay rights, workers’ rights, and human rights. Militant Islamists oppose all th... April 16, 2009 We Need Action,Not Words, On North Korea President Barack Obama's hollow response to North Korea's April 5 illicit missile test amounts to another score for North Korea's Kim Jong Il. Kim has again defied the so-called in... April 16, 2009 Hit Iran Where it Hurts Co-authored by Joshua Goodman Barack Obama's recent call for a "world without nuclear weapons" represents a daunting challenge in an era of increased nuclear proliferation.... April 16, 2009 Syria’s plan In an interview with the Emirate daily Al-Khaleej last week, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad once again revealed his intention to dominate Lebanon. Assad made a number of thinly-veiled threats a... April 15, 2009 Speaking Truth to Muslim Power 'The United States is not at war with Islam and will never be. In fact, our partnership with the Muslim world is critical in rolling back a fringe ideology that people of all faiths reject."... April 14, 2009 John Wayne to the Rescue ‘We have this strong bias toward individual action.” It was 1995, and Barack Obama was diagnosing the American character. His conclusion was not a happy one: too much self-reliance, t... April 14, 2009 Will Obama Put an End to Pirates Once and For All? Pirates and presidents. Hostages and heroes. Since the early years of the Republic, we've judged our presidents on their ability to defeat pirates and rescue hostages. Remember Jimm... April 10, 2009 Pirates Test the ‘Rule of Law’ When Somali Muslim pirates raided the Alabama on Wednesday, the U.S.-flagged cargo ship was cruising the Indian Ocean en route to Mombassa. The 21 Americans in the crew were trying to deliver ton... April 9, 2009 Korean Lessons President Obama had warned Kim Jong Il that should he launch a long-range ballistic missile the U.S. would “take appropriate steps to let North Korea know that it can’t threaten the s... April 9, 2009 Bashar Assad the Peacemaker? Think Again In the last two or three years, a number of old arguments regarding Syria have again become fashionable. One of them is that peace with Syria is not only “there to be had”, but that i... April 6, 2009 Beyond Terrorism ‘Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Koran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope." This is the battle cry of Hizb al-Ikhwan al-Musli... April 6, 2009 American Interests in Pakistan Recent turmoil in Pakistan has altered the political landscape in ways that should register with policymakers in Washington. Events have cast something of a pall over the government of President... April 2, 2009 Middle East Caricature Let’s not call the political cartoonist Pat Oliphant an anti-Semite or even an Israel-basher. Let’s just be clear about what he is doing: encouraging those whose intentions are genoci... April 2, 2009 Why Not To Join The U.N. Human Rights Council As part of President Obama's "new era of engagement," the U.S. State Department has just announced plans to seek one of the 47 seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council. This overturn... March 31, 2009 Spain’s ‘Universal Jurisdiction’ Power Play As the U.S. government’s myriad intrusions radically transform our economy, few seem to notice the dangerous progress of the international Left’s assault on American sovereignty. With... March 31, 2009 A Case Built on Irrationality The Uighur saga nicely captures all the irrationality and hypocrisy of our counterterrorism approach. That policy foolishly holds that we can focus on terrorist activity without focusing on the j... March 30, 2009 The Return of Weakness In diplomacy and espionage, there is no worse mistake than "mirror-imaging," that is, ascribing to foreigners your own actions and views. For Westerners this is especially debilitating, given our... March 28, 2009 Let’s Put Bylines on Our ‘National’ Intelligence Estimates Charles Freeman's withdrawal from his appointment as the chairman of the National Intelligence Council (NIC) offers an opportunity to assess whether personal views should have any role in in... March 27, 2009 Obama Gets It Right, Mostly, With His Plan for Afghanistan President Obama outlined his new Afghanistan-Pakistan policy today, and for the most part, got it right. He laid out a specific strategic objective, "to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda --... March 26, 2009 The American Counter-Revolution The question posed by social scientist Charles Murray at the American Enterprise Institute’s annual dinner this month could hardly have been simpler: Do Americans want the United States to... March 26, 2009 The U.N.’s ‘Alliance of Civilizations’ President Obama is expected to travel early next month to Istanbul, where he will attend a meeting of a United Nations-spawned outfit called the Alliance of Civilizations. Under that grand title,... March 26, 2009 Bin Laden’s Somali Gambit Last week, al-Qaeda chieftain Usama bin Laden interjected himself yet once again into the ongoing conflict in the territory of the former Somali Democratic Republic. On closer examination, the mo... March 24, 2009 CAIR’s Well-Deserved Expulsion A week ago, the FBI officially announced that it has cut ties with the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The self-styled civil-rights organization is characteristically squawking, but the FB... March 20, 2009 In Overture to Iran, Obama Negotiates Without Leverage President Obama unveiled the first part of his Iranian policy directly to ... the Iranian People. It was a good opening pitch, insofar as it went. But Iran is playing hardball, so the important t... March 19, 2009 Does The U.N. Really Matter? His travels apparently bankrolled in part by Iran, his excellency the president of the United Nations General Assembly, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, recently took a three-week trip to Syria, F... March 18, 2009 Talking with the Mullahs President Obama keeps telling us that he wants to sit down and talk with Iran’s ruling mullahs, as if this would be a drastic change from the past. But the Bush administration negotiated ex... March 16, 2009 The Administration Kowtows Over the last three weeks, the Obama administration has sent three clear signals to the Chinese leadership. First came the news that Chas Freeman would chair the National Intelligence Co... March 16, 2009 Which Way Will the Wind Blow From Damascus? Syrian President Bashar Assad has become the hottest ticket in the world, from Washington to Paris and from Riyadh to Cairo. Everybody wants to meet him, be seen with him and get on his good side... March 15, 2009 The Appeasers They like to call themselves “realists,” but their proper name is “appeasers.” They follow in the hollow footsteps of Neville Chamberlain, who signed an agreement wi... March 12, 2009 Money to Burn? This month, there was an “International Conference in Support of the People and Economy of Darfur,” and billions of dollars were raised not just from America and Europe but also from... March 12, 2009 The Chinese Navy’s Somali Cruise by Dr. Peter Pham Since the beginning of January, three vessels of China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) - the Guangzhou-class destroyer Wuhan...

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