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September 24, 2009 The President And Two Dictators America has "re-engaged the United Nations," said President Barack Obama in his maiden speech Wednesday to the U.N. General Assembly. Yes, it has, and within hours both Libya's Col. Muammar... September 24, 2009 Gaddafi, Ahmadinejad and the Muslim Political World’s Ongoing Clown Show Pop quiz: Who is the President of Indonesia? If you knew the answer was Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, award yourself a gold sticker in the shape of the Wikipedia logo. But if you're amo... September 24, 2009 UN Turns Blind Eye to Weaker Middle East Nations By Dr. Walid Phares How ironic that Middle East's dictators and their allies showed up at the General Assembly in New York in 2009 to blast what they coined as a Western ab... September 23, 2009 Message to the U.N. – Support Democracy Not Dictators By Dr. Walid Phares As President Obama was addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations, just before Libya's dictator Moammar Kadhafi called for the demise of the... September 22, 2009 Ahmadinejad Personally Recruited Sanctions Buster During New York Trip, Court Documents Show For the fifth time in five years, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is descending on New York to speak at the September opening of the United Nations General Assembly. His previous visits... September 21, 2009 Will Obama ‘Do a Rumsfeld’ In Afghanistan? When I was in Afghanistan earlier this year it was clear we didn't have enough troops to do anything more than tread water. Things have only gotten worse. President Obama is offerin... September 18, 2009 Pashtuns and Pakistanis The war in Afghanistan obviously isn't going well. Depressing critiques from all quarters underscore Afghanistan's appalling poverty, warlordism, religious conservatism, corruption, pop... September 18, 2009 Obama Tosses an Ally Overboard – And We Get Zip Remember Polish jokes? They're politically incorrect these days, so no one makes them. No one, that is, except President Obama. By cancelling the promised missile shield, he in effect cut Po... September 17, 2009 Why Is Missile Defense Controversial? Missile defense - as the term might suggest - is defensive, not offensive. Brilliant American scientists have developed sophisticated technologies to prevent missiles - including those armed with... September 17, 2009 Axis Of Opportunism The bad old Axis of Evil is back in the news. That's not because President Barack Obama has resurrected the label, but because he's now planning to hold direct talks with its two surviv... September 17, 2009 Somali Instability Still Poses Threat Even After Successful Strike on Nabhan By Dr. J. Walid Phares The United States struck an important blow against Islamist terrorism in the Horn of Africa earlier this week when, in the middle of the day on Monday, Sp... September 17, 2009 Meet Diana Ralph, the Bizarre Anti-Israeli Conspiracy Theorist Who Charmed the United Church of Cana The United Church of Canada narrowly avoided disgrace last month, when its members rejected a bigoted resolution aimed at boycotting Israel. But a scandalous new revelation suggests the controver... September 16, 2009 Bin Laden: U.S. Must Break From Israel For Peace By Dr. Walid Phares Al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden spoke to the American people on the eighth anniversary of 9/11 asserting that the main reason for the al-Qaida attacks on New... September 15, 2009 Oil Itself Is A Problem On June 18, 2009, inFOCUS editor Jonathan Schanzer interviewed R. James Woolsey. Mr. Woolsey was Director of Central Intelligence from 1993 to 1995. Mr. Woolsey is Chairman of the Adviso... September 15, 2009 Are Naomi Klein et al Being Used as Palestinian Authority Sock Puppets? For the last little while, Toronto has been the scene of a teapot tempest over its International Film Festival (TIFF). On one side are a bunch of Hollywood celebrities and local anti-Israeli acti... September 15, 2009 Canada Grows Up Anti-Americanism has been Canada's defining intellectual ailment for generations. Not the fire-breathing hatred felt in some parts of the world, or even the elitist sneer directed westward f... September 14, 2009 Bin Laden’s Strategy Shift By Dr. Walid Phares In a 12 minutes address on audio tape, Al Qaeda chief Usama bin Laden, spoke to the American people on the eighth anniversary of 9/11. The tape was produced... September 11, 2009 KSM’s Sleeper Agents Posed A Serious Threat You would think the identification and arrest of sleeper agents working for al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), and operating on U.S. soil in 2003, is a success story our intelligen... September 10, 2009 Eight Years and Counting Eight years ago this week, Osama bin Laden watched and then celebrated as a terrorist attack he had authorized brought down the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon, slaughtering thousands... September 10, 2009 It Takes A Nuclear Village WASHINGTON -- New York County District Attorney Robert Morgenthau left his home turf and came to the nation's capital on Tuesday to sound the alarm about a "blossoming relationship" between... September 10, 2009 Book Review: What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism, Alan B. Krueger (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007), 180 pp. Reviewed by Daveed Gartenstein... September 3, 2009 UNICEF’s Proliferation-Prone Banker With four sets of sanctions over the past three years, the United Nations is supposed to be leading the charge to stop Iran's drive toward the nuclear bomb. The most recent U.N. move, Securi... August 14, 2009 Smart Sanctions Can Work Against Iran After a fraudulent election and its brutal aftermath, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his junta must now be persuaded that their pursuit of nuclear weapons will be unbearably costly.... August 6, 2009 Syria Celebrates Too Soon on Sanctions The Obama administration has announced it is easing the processing of certain export licenses to Syria, within the framework of sanctions in effect since the previous administration. Syrian spoke... July 29, 2009 Terrorism in the West 2008 The Center for Terrorism Research has released its newest report, Terrorism in the West 2008, by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Joshua D. Goodman, and Laura Grossman. Terrorism is not a new ph... July 29, 2009 How to Stop Iran’s Nukes At the dawn of the atomic weapons age, a group of nuclear scientists created a theoretical 'Minutes to Midnight' doomsday clock to signify how close the world was to annihilation. Since... July 22, 2009 Iran: Recent Developments and Implications for U.S. Policy On July 22, 2009, FDD Senior Fellow Orde Kittrie delivered testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs regarding Iran: Recent Developments and Implications for U.S. Policy. June 25, 2009 Where’s The U.N. On Iran? People are being killed in Iran. Where is the U.N.? What institution could be better positioned to relieve President Obama of his worries about America standing up unilaterally for freedom in Ira... June 24, 2009 Hezbollah Is Being Elusive on Wilayat al-Faqih There is a glaring contradiction between Hezbollah's recent statements about the concept of Wilayat al-Faqih (the rule of the jurisprudent) and events in Iran. The reverberations of the even... June 23, 2009 Fiddling While Somalia Burns Difficult as it may be to conceive, the already-bad security situation in Somalia deteriorated further over the weekend. Yet as Islamist militants brought their offensive to the edge of Mogadishu... June 22, 2009 The June 12 Revolution The modern Middle East has had numerous "game-changing" moments, when history turned. Napoleon Bonaparte's invasion of Egypt in 1798, Muhammad Ali's conquest of the Nile Valley in 1805,... June 21, 2009 The Koran and the Ballot Box WHATEVER happens in Iran in the aftermath of this month’s fraudulent elections, one thing is clear: we are witnessing not just a fascinating power struggle among men who’ve known each... June 19, 2009 How Should We Help Iran? Suppose that President Obama decides to support the revolution in Iran. You may say it’s unlikely, but you’d have said that the revolution itself was pretty darned unlikely, wouldn&rs... June 18, 2009 How to Crush Debate Following the shootings of a Kansas abortion doctor and a guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, two prominent New York Times columnists, Paul Krugman and Frank Rich, spoke out forcefully a... June 18, 2009 The Green Rebellion With great courage, Iranians have been rising up against the tyranny of their 30-year-old Islamic Republic. This is a weak moment for Iran's terror-based regime, and democracies such as the... June 18, 2009 Obama Must Send Iran a Message — Reagan Showed Us How to Do It President Obama, be careful what you wish for; it may come true. Two weeks ago President Obama's Cairo speech lit a spark in the Muslim world, which Iranian demonstrators are now fa... June 16, 2009 Why Western Media Got Lebanon’s Elections So Wrong The biggest failure in Lebanon’s election was not just General Michel Aoun. Sharing first place with him was a coterie of Western journalists and analysts who, in the run-up to the election... June 15, 2009 Read the Gitmo Files On Sunday night, CNN ran part of an interview with a Uighur named Khalil Abdul Nasser. Until just a few days ago, Nasser was detained at Guantanamo. Nasser's transfer to Bermuda, along with... June 11, 2009 Addressing Genocide The shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum serves as a stark reminder: Holocaust denial is not a problem simply because some people choose to falsify history. Holocaust denial is a proble... June 11, 2009 Living on Obama Beach "Obama Beach." That phrase was a slip of the tongue by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, speaking last Saturday in Normandy, alongside President Barack Obama and other leaders gathered in hono... June 10, 2009 How Do They Radicalize Others? The shooting in Arkansas last week that claimed the life of a 24-year-old soldier and the bomb plot that was disrupted in the Bronx in late May put questions about homegrown terrorism into sharp... June 10, 2009 A Looming Crisis In Lebanon? On Sunday, June 7, the Lebanese held parliamentary elections and handed the incumbent coalition a decisive victory over the opposition, which is led by the Iranian-sponsored militant group Hezbol... June 10, 2009 Will a Key Anti-Terror Tool Fall Victim to Obama’s Muslim Outreach? On the same day Barack Hussein Obama enthralled an Egyptian audience with his airbrushed version of Islam and its historic interactions with the United States (complete with adoption of CAIR&#039... June 10, 2009 Obama Must Consider the Military Option on North Korea North Korea snatched two American journalists and is holding them hostage under the window dressing of calling them 'spies.' They've detonated two nuclear bombs. They've... June 7, 2009 Inconsistent Interrogation Tales As the controversy continues over what and when Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew about the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation methods (EIM), there is a significant overlooked dimension to this Was... June 5, 2009 Making Believe Making Believe Obama's speech was deep in fable, short on fact. The Islamic world has heard the much anticipated speech about the relationship between Islam and America from... June 4, 2009 Obama Derangement Syndrome? Long afflicted with Bush Derangement Syndrome, Rall has his knickers in a knot now because he thinks Obama has a plan for "preventive detentions." He claims to have seen "reports in U.S. state-co... June 4, 2009 What I Saw at Tiananmen It's now 20 years since I ran through a cross-fire of tracer bullets, heading into Beijing's Tiananmen Square in the early hours of June 4 to witness the end of the uprising in which mi... June 4, 2009 What Obama’s Mideast Trip Says About The U.S. Americans woke up this week to news that President Obama is now describing the U.S. as--if you take into account the number of Muslim Americans--"one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.... June 2, 2009 General McChrystal — The Right Man for the Job FOXNews.com - June 02, 2009 Lt. Gen McChyrstal’s confirmation hearings this week provide an much needed opportunity to review our policies going forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan...

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