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September 26, 2006
With Fear and Favor
An essential American institution is in crisis but the story is not being covered by the mainstream media. That's because the institution in crisis is the mainstream media which appears inca...
September 26, 2006
No Iraq War = Easier War on Terror?
No Iraq war = easier war on terror? The latest National Intelligence Estimate says the Iraq war is making the war on terror tougher. Democrats pounced on the report and said the U.S. mus...
September 26, 2006
Yes, Our Iraq Policy Has Helped al Qaeda Recruit…
Another day, another New York Times publication of classified information. Another election cycle, another strategic intelligence-community leak transparently designed to affect th...
September 25, 2006
Hamdan and the Sunset of Sovereignty
The cacophony over wartime interrogation tactics and military-commission trials obscures a more profound issue: the sunset of national sovereignty itself. The cause of the ruckus, the Su...
September 21, 2006
Financing Somalia’s Islamist Warlords
Since the fall of the sometime Somali capital of Mogadishu to the armed radicals of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in early June, United States policymakers and analysts have debated not only the...
September 20, 2006
What We Can Learn from a Medieval Dialogue
Amid all the metaphorical smoke arising from the, alas, very real flames of hatred that some Muslim fanatics have managed to kindle out of Pope Benedict XVI's lecture to academics at the Uni...
September 20, 2006
Symposium on United Nations
President Bush said so many of the right words. He was so right to address some of those words not to the assembled "excellencies" of the General Assembly, but directly to the people of Iraq, Afg...
September 20, 2006
You Have the Right to Remain Silent
A number of friends and colleagues (both conservative and liberal) have either quarreled with or expressed alarm about my contention that the 2005 McCain Amendment conferred Miranda rights on ali...
September 20, 2006
The Intelligence Mess
(Editor's note: This article first appeared in April 2004.) Intelligence-gathering is something of a square peg in the round hole of contemporary political morality. It is about unearthing t...
September 20, 2006
Opposing View: Intelligence Comes First
The case of Maher Arar, a Canadian Muslim allegedly tortured in Syria after being taken there by the CIA, warrants scrutiny. So, indeed, does the whole practice of rendition, a favorite of the Cl...
September 19, 2006
Submit or Die
Many commentators have pointed out the apparent hypocrisy: Muslims are outraged by cartoons satirizing Islamic extremism while in Muslim countries Christianity and Judaism are attacked viciously...
September 19, 2006
Down on the Farms
As we mark the one-month anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, the best that can be said is that ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah terrorists who carved a state...
September 15, 2006
The New Juristocracy
From the Founding right up until the still-quaking bombshell of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, issued at the end of the Supreme Court's term in late June, the primary imperative of national government...
September 14, 2006
West Africa and the Coming Naval Battle in al-Qaeda’s Economic War Against America
Despite the unfortunate tendency among many talking heads to oppose "soft power" to "hard power" – usually these days to the detriment of the latter – the truth is that the two aspect...
September 13, 2006
The Enemy’s Ideology
In his speech on the anniversary of the September 11 atrocities, President Bush said the United States is fighting “the decisive ideological struggle of the 21st century.” OK, b...
September 13, 2006
Enact the President’s Code for Military Commissions
In the raging 2006 controversy over military commissions lies the pressing 2008 question: Can the nation afford a President John McCain? The universal, reciprocal chivalry that guided wa...
September 13, 2006
Books: Some Unconventional Wisdom
Ian Bremmer, The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 320 pp., $26.00. Charles Peña, Winning the Un-War: A New Strate...
September 12, 2006
About that Mercedes
Remember Kojo Annan's Mercedes? The car that reporters kept asking about last year, finally sending Kofi Annan into a temper tantrum at a televised press conference? I'm talking of cour...
September 11, 2006
Terrorism Happens Because It Works – and We Let It
Since the 1970s, Islamist terrorists have been attacking Western interests. It took almost thirty years before many realized it. FSM Contributing Editor Peter Pham examines major attacks since 19...
September 11, 2006
Symposium: 9/11: Five Years Later
On this fifth anniversary of 9/11, Frontpage Symposium has assembled a distinguished panel to discuss the significance of that terror attack, what we have done right and wrong since then, a...
September 8, 2006
America’s Somali Policy Still Dangerously Adrift
This column is dedicated to the premise that the strategic neglect of Africa was the weak link in the advancement of American foreign policy interests in general, and the successful prosecution o...
September 7, 2006
Walid Phares’ Testimony Before House Subcommittee
On Thursday, September 7, 2006, FDD's Walid Phares testified before the House Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation. The topic was 9/11: Five Years Later - Gaugi...
September 7, 2006
Who’s Really Ignoring the Geneva Conventions?
Authored by Alykhan Velshi and Howard Anglin In a landmark speech Wednesday, President Bush announced that all captured terrorists will receive the protections of Common Article...
September 7, 2006
5 Years Later, More Needs to be Done
Most of us can remember exactly where we were nearly five years ago, on the morning of Sept. 11. I was in small-town America, where the guys in the local doughnut shop - watching the endless TV r...
September 6, 2006
Five Years Later: It’s Time to Unite and Fight
Five years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Americans have not been slaughtered a second time on U.S. soil. That is no small achievement. It has come about not because our enemies h...
September 6, 2006
Saying What Needs To Be Said
That's the guy I voted for. President Bush's speech yesterday was simply stellar. Would that he gave it every day. He didn't back down to pressure from Muslim int...
September 6, 2006
The Tragedy of Conrad Black, Intermezzo
Authored by Alykhan Velshi The last three years have not been kind to Conrad Black: his media empire and his reputation are in a shambles, his various properties are being aucti...
September 5, 2006
Countdown to Genocide
The final countdown for Darfur looms. Back in April, in a widely commented piece on TCS, we warned both that the impending Darfur crisis was...
August 31, 2006
Iran’s Congo Connection
On July 31, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1696, which invoked Chapter VII of the world body's charter to demand that Iran to suspend all activities related to its pur...
August 31, 2006
Excess Baggage
Despite today's United Nations deadline for Iran to give up its nuclear bomb program, Iran has done no such thing. The next diplomatic move is supposed to be for the U.N. to impose sanctions...
August 30, 2006
Jihadist Games in Gaza
The release in Gaza of Fox News journalist Steve Centanni and camera man Olaf Wiig, kidnapped Aug. 14 by a group calling itself Holy Jihad Brigade, raises a number of salient issues: "We were for...
August 29, 2006
Iraqi Lessons
We are where we are in Iraq, and it's not a comfortable place. We are where we are in Iraq because mistakes were made both in planning and executing the war there. If we could do it all over...
August 29, 2006
Helping to Return Joe Lieberman to the Senate
What a sad spectacle these last few days, as Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., and John Kerry, D-Mass., and even former Vice President Al Gore have been falling all over themselves in condemning the...
August 29, 2006
Europe’s Munich Moment
In March 2003, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the current French Prime minister, Dominique de Villepin -- then his country's foreign minister -- condemned the Coalition of the Willin...
August 27, 2006
Crowning of Nasrallah? – Annan’s Diplomacy Harms the Cause of Peace
BRACE YOURSELF. In the United Nations-brokered farce known as the "cessation of hostilities in Lebanon," we may now be heading for the moment in which Secretary General Kofi Annan jets to Beirut...
August 25, 2006
Call the Enemy by the Name it Calls Itself
The organized campaign against the use by government of the term "Islamic fascists" is an indication that the War of Ideas is raging in the center of the War on Terror. In this clash of words and...
August 19, 2006
Turtle Bay Does Beirut
Brace yourself. In the United Nations-brokered farce known as the “cessation of hostilities in Lebanon,” we may now be heading for the moment in which Secretary-General Kofi Annan jet...
August 17, 2006
Word Choice: Are We at War With “Islamic Fascism”?
Mohamed Eljahmi Bush's use of the term “Islamic fascist” is both sincere and correct. However, the scope of his definition is of limited utility. The problems of the curre...
August 17, 2006
Niger Delta Blues
Last week's announcement by British Petroleum (BP) that it might have to shut down its 400,000 barrels-per-day Prudhoe Bay oil field – after an inspection turned up severe corrosion an...
August 17, 2006
Blinded by Hate, Israel’s Enemies Will Never Relent
I've been reporting on the Arab-Israeli conflict for more than 42 years and I've just come to a horrifying but unavoidable conclusion: Nothing has changed - and probably nothing can cha...
August 15, 2006
Terrorists Win — What Next?
The Second Battle of the Litani (following our Civil War practice of naming engagements after the strategically significant waterways along which they are fought) is over. With a ceasefire called...
August 15, 2006
Israel and Azerbaijan’s Furtive Embrace
Authored by Ilya Bourtman The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 changed the geopolitical landscape of the Middle East. Within weeks, six predominantly Muslim countries...
August 14, 2006
Who Wins?
In the wake of Friday night's vote on a ceasefire resolution at the United Nations on the crisis in the Middle East, are there any winners in the thirty-some days' war? National Review...
August 12, 2006
If Turtle Bay Had a Moral Compass…
It's happy hour at the United Nations. After four weeks of Hezbollah-provoked war in Israel and Lebanon, accompanied by much diplomatic hand-wringing, the U.N. Security Council met Friday ev...
August 11, 2006
The Only Option Is to Win
Yesterday on this page, in a serious and thoughtful survey of a world in crisis, Richard Holbrooke listed 13 countries that could be involved in violence in the near future: Lebanon, Israel, Iraq...
August 11, 2006
Reform the Only Hope for the Middle East
Despite virtual around-the-clock coverage of the war between Israel and Hezbollah, one important aspect remains poorly understood: the reaction of the 300 million strong "Arab Street." Turn on an...
August 11, 2006
Connecticut? This is London Calling
We are reading only about 24 arrests today. If we were already in the heralded antiwar world of Ned Lamont and the war-against-the-war crowd, it could be much different. We could just as easily b...
August 11, 2006
Smarter Commercial Aviation Security
The United States and one of its most faithful allies in the war on terrorism, the United Kingdom, have providentially averted a terrorist plot of frightening magnitude that, had it succeeded, wo...
August 10, 2006
The Honest Broker
When it is finally written — probably in Arabic — the history of the war on terror will convey one over-arching lesson: One side fought with conviction; the other developed a convicti...
August 10, 2006
Hezbollah’s African Network
Despite the valiant efforts of the men and women of the Israeli Defense Forces to degrade the lethal capacity of Hezbollah terrorist organization&...
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