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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...
December 6, 2006
Los Crímenes de Guerra de Hizbolá
Este verano, los comandos de Hizbolá en el Líbano invadieron Israel donde mataron y secuestraron a soldados israelíes, desencadenando una guerra de 34 días. Durante es...
December 6, 2006
Hezbollah’s War Crimes
Last summer, Lebanese-based Hezbollah commandos invaded Israel where they both killed and kidnapped Israeli soldiers, setting off a 34-day-long war. During that conflict, photographs of what were...
December 6, 2006
Symposium: Iraq Study Group Report
The cover of the Iraq Study Group report is red, white, and blue. The title sounds promising: “The Way Forward — A New Approach.” It’s pretty much downhill from there....
December 6, 2006
Preliminary Thoughts
The Iraq Study Group’s approach seems consistent with what we’ve heard it would be: negotiate with Iran and Syria, pressure Israel for concessions in the hope that our enemies will be...
December 6, 2006
Fight the Real War
Iraq is disintegrating, and no one knows quite what to do. Some, like congressional Democrats, a growing chorus of disaf...
December 6, 2006
A Puzzling Run for President in Lebanon
If you're lucky enough not to be obsessed with Middle East politics, you may be surprised to learn that the keynote speaker at Hezbollah's massive Beirut demonstration last week wa...
December 5, 2006
After Bolton
The Democratic majority hasn't even formally taken over on Capitol Hill, yet it already has a scalp to claim — that of the American ambassador at the United Nations, John Bolton. It is...
December 4, 2006
Franchising Jihad
In a forthcoming study for the Institute for Counter-Terrorism at Israel's Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, senior researcher Ely Karmon raises the alarming prospect of Hezbollah affili...
December 1, 2006
Cambio Means Freedom in Cuba
In the town of Madrugas on the outskirts of Havana, something extraordinary happened in the early evening of November 2. Several dozen agents of the Cuban state security tried to arrest dissident...
December 1, 2006
The Originalist Error
Authored by Alykhan Velshi "There is no such thing as man in the world. During my life, I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians, etc.; I know, too, thanks to Montesqu...
November 30, 2006
Islamism Comes to the Niger Delta
Last month, I discussed in this column the immense importance of the Nigerian elections scheduled for April 21, 2007, concluding: "If President Obasanjo manages to hand ov...
November 29, 2006
Can We Talk?
This is a war of will. If we lose it, the historians will marvel at how mulishly we resisted understanding the one thing we needed to understand in order to win. The enemy. In Iraq, we&r...
November 28, 2006
Denles algún tema de conversación
La controversia sobre si Estados Unidos debería hablar con Irán y Siria sugiere la pregunta: ¿Qué diríamos? Más específicamente, ¿qué...
November 28, 2006
Give Them Something to Talk About
The controversy over whether the U.S. should talk with Iran and Syria begs the question: What would we say? More specifically, what are we willing to offer in exchange for cooperation -- and what...
November 28, 2006
Plunder Down Under
At United Nations headquarters, Secretary General Kofi Annan likes to imply that the Oil-for-Food era is over (“If there was a scandal” was his locution earlier this year). But Down U...
November 27, 2006
The UN’s Jew-Obsession
Every single day, hundreds of African tribesmen are killed in Darfur by militias acting with the blessing of Sudan's Arab Islamist government. Eac...
November 26, 2006
Education Versus Jihad
In the few hours following the terrorist attacks on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, media in the United States began looking for answers. The very first series of questions asked by all was indica...
November 24, 2006
Crushing a Flower of the Cedar Revolution
The assassination of Lebanese Christian politician Pierre Gemayel this Tuesday has revealed that the Tehran-Damascus axis remains busy with terror activities across the Fertile Crescent....
November 22, 2006
Iraq Options
Iraq is a mess. We have come to that conclusion because virtually every day we see innocent Iraqis slaughtered by suicide-bombers. Of all the possible responses, the most perverse may be this: To...
November 22, 2006
Opciones en Irak
Irak es un lío. Hemos llegado a esa conclusión porque prácticamente todos los días vemos a iraquíes inocentes asesinados por terroristas suicidas. De todas las...
November 22, 2006
Al Qaeda Wants an ‘American Madrid’
The latest audio by al Qaeda's Iraq commander -- posted 48 hours after the midterm elections -- sends a clear signal to the readers of the jihadi strategic mind: Al Qaeda and its advisers ar...
November 22, 2006
The Assassination of Pierre Gemayel
After his son was shot pointblank Tuesday in Beirut, former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel called on his countrymen “to contemplate the meaning of this martyrdom and how to protect this co...
November 22, 2006
The Somali Radicals Must Be Destroyed!
Convinced that the peace of the Mediterranean world and security of the Roman Senate and People depended on the final elimination of the threat posed by Carthage – which many of his contemp...
November 21, 2006
Response to the Terrorist Assassination of Pierre Gemayel
The assassination of Minister Pierre Gemayel in Beirut is another war crime against the democratically elected Government and Parliament of Lebanon, and another strike in the Terror War waged by...
November 16, 2006
A U.S. Security Agenda in Africa: Part II
Since its inception, this column has been dedicated to the proposition that that Sub-Saharan Africa which, even in the best of times, has historically been treated as something of a stepchild by...
November 15, 2006
Where to Stand and Fight
Earlier this week, in a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Bush threatened Iran with "isolation" if it continues plowing forward in its nuclear program. Thi...
November 15, 2006
The Courtier to Annan
Not so long ago, Kofi Annan was up to his ears in the Oil for Food scandal, and his legacy as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations was on its way down the drain. He was ducking que...
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