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November 13, 2006
Maqdisi’s Minions
Authored by Dan Wilson On November 13, 1995, two explosions ripped through an American-run training center in the heart of Riyadh, killing five American military advisors and wo...
November 9, 2006
Speaker Pelosi’s Impending Intelligence Failure
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is in line to make history as the first female Speaker — and second in line of succession for the presidency — when the new Congress convenes in January....
November 9, 2006
The Fall Guy
With democracy’s seductive melody lilting in the background, the Bush administration and its petulant partner, the new Iraqi regime of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, have waltzed into chao...
November 9, 2006
Two Views on Rumsfeld
When the nation went to war in Iraq in 2003 (with overwhelming popular support) and for a long time after that, Rumsfeld had rock-star status. With Abu Ghraib and his management of this millstone...
November 9, 2006
A U.S. Security Agenda in Africa — Part I
One of the frustrations that foreign nations and individuals have with the United States is Americans' biennial self-absorption in electoral campaigns during which pressing international con...
November 9, 2006
Symposium: The D.O.D. After Rumsfeld
When the nation went to war in Iraq in 2003 (with overwhelming popular support) and for a long time after that, Rumsfeld had rock-star status. With Abu Ghraib and his management of this millstone...
November 8, 2006
Las elecciones en Estados Unidos
Los demócratas dijeron: “¿Hartos?”...
November 8, 2006
The Rainy Season’s Over; Killing Can Commence
The rainy season has just ended in northwestern Sudan—now killing can recommence in earnest. Two months ago, we warned that inaction in Darfur was tantamount to a "countdown to genocide" wi...
November 7, 2006
Post-Election Thoughts
What happened on Election Day? It boils down to this: The Democrats said: “Had enough?” The Republicans said: “It could be worse!”...
November 6, 2006
It’s National Security, Stupid
There is no doubt that a wide variety of issues factor into the dynamics of this year's midterm elections. While the war in Iraq looms large, nationwide voters will decide dir...
November 5, 2006
Symposium: Saddam Hussein’s Verdict
Clifford D. May Upon being sentenced to death, Saddam Hussein played to both his key constituencies. Militant Islamists heard him shout: “Allahu Akbar!" (&ld...
November 3, 2006
Reflections of an Attorney General
The United States Department of Justice is like a battleship of enormous size and storied traditions, patrolling familiar seas under time-honored rules of engagement. Modern Islamic radicalism, a...
November 2, 2006
The Coming Chaos in Guinea
Getting the outside world to focus on the current terrorist and other security challenges in Africa is a difficult enough task (see last week's discussion of the ongoing Somali crisis). Dire...
November 1, 2006
If Democrats Win
According to polls and pundits, voters will soon turn the keys to the House and possibly the Senate over to the Democrats. Less easy to forecast: what that will mean for foreign policy in general...
November 1, 2006
Si los demócratas ganan: Cómo podría cambiar la política exterior
Según las encuestas y los expertos, los votantes entregarán las llaves de la Cámara de Representantes y posiblemente del Senado a los demócratas muy pronto. Menos f&aa...
November 1, 2006
Traitors Will be Prosecuted
Authored by Alykhan Velshi Just as a muscle will atrophy if unused, criminal prohibitions may lapse into desuetude when no one enforces them. Fortunately, and to its everlasting...
November 1, 2006
Future Terrorism: Mutant Jihads
The strategic decision to carry out 9/11 was made in the early 1990s, almost ten years before the barbaric attacks on New York and Washington took place. The decade-long preparations and the test...
October 31, 2006
Divided They Stand: The Syrian Opposition
His son and successor, Bashar, has failed to manage these divisions. Unfavorable international conditions, colossal foreign policy failures, and a precarious economy have left the regime wi...
October 31, 2006
Syrian-Saudi Media Wars
The recent conflict between Israel and Hezbollah produced a dramatic resurgence of Saudi-Syrian tensions, which have been boiling beneath the surface since the assassination of former Lebanese Pr...
October 30, 2006
Symposium: What Happens If the Democrats Win
During the Cold War, Democrats were regarded as weak on national security. From Lyndon Johnson's departure from the White House in 1969 to Bill Clinton's post-Cold War return there in 1...
October 30, 2006
Right on Target
On October 23, after ten more Qassam missiles were fired from northern Gaza into Israel in forty-eight hours, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) troops entered the area in search of the launchers and t...
October 26, 2006
Update: Islamist Radicals Still on the March in Somalia
While recent crises in other parts of the world have pushed them even farther from the headlines, the Islamist radicals who took control of the sometime Somali capital of Mogadishu in early June...
October 25, 2006
An Unveiling
Muslim women veiling has become the subject of intense controversy in Britain in recent days, with Prime Minister Tony Blair calling the veil a “mark of separation.” National Revi...
October 25, 2006
Hamas’ Must-See TV
Hamas may not have funds to pay the salaries of civil servants and improve social services for Palestinians. But resources to fund its propaganda efforts? That, evidently, is not a problem. This...
October 24, 2006
No se pierda la tele de Hamás
Puede que Hamás no tenga dinero para pagar el sueldo a sus funcionarios y para mejorar los servicios sociales de los palestinos. Pero ¿fondos para pagar sus esfuerzos propagand&iacu...
October 24, 2006
Is Iraq a Worthy Cause?
Even conservatives are now starting to become almost irretrievably saturnine in their pessimism on Iraq. On National Review Online last week, Jonah Goldberg wrote that “the Iraq war was a m...
October 23, 2006
The Caliph-Strophic Debate
It seems that the US is having a hard time winning the hearts and minds of Arabs and Muslims, but an equally serious problem can be observed in the intellectual circles of America where some have...
October 23, 2006
American “Stupidity” and “Arrogance” in Iraq
Isn't this just wonderful? The State Department's top spokesman on the Middle East, Alberto Fernandez, has pronounced that American “arrogance” and “stupidity” i...
October 20, 2006
The Blind Sheik’s Mistress
Legal ethics rules in all fifty states absolutely prevent lawyers from assisting their clients in the commission of criminal acts. Confidentiality and lawyer-client privilege rules have, everywhe...
October 20, 2006
Pragmatism Trumps Suicide
Judge Richard A. Posner, of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, is one of America's most prolific intellectuals and legal philosophers. Following the September 11, 2001, attacks, his power...
October 20, 2006
In Defense of Liberty
Coauthored with Herbert London In 2004, Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, general manager of the Al-Arabiya news channel, courageously wrote, "It is a certain fact that not all Musl...
October 18, 2006
Una clase distinta de guerra
Los generales prefieren luchan la guerra anterior por una buena razón: La guerra anterior puede ser estudiada y entendida. Por el contrario, en el conflicto del momento parece que nos move...
October 18, 2006
A Different Kind of War
Generals prefer to fight the last war for a good reason: The last war can be studied and understood. In the current conflict, by contrast, we seem to be wrestling a ghost in a fog. We ca...
October 16, 2006
A War, or Un-War?
Dear Dr. Pham: In the spirit of constructive debate to advance American foreign policy to navigate "through the shoals of the coming years" and "safely steer the ship of state",...
October 16, 2006
Krauthammer, Kennedy & Korea
With characteristic sagacity last Friday, Charles Krauthammer invoked President Kennedy's Cuban-missile-crisis strategy as a model for dealing with North Korea's most recent nuclear ant...
October 16, 2006
Sentencing Day Arrives for Lynne Stewart
The radical attorney Lynne Stewart is scheduled to be sentenced in Manhattan today on her 2005 conviction, after a lengthy trial, for providing material support to terrorism. As pr...
October 16, 2006
The New Secretary General
On Friday, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon was elected to be the new Secretary-General of the United Nations, by “acclamation” in the General Assembly. The U.S. seemed pleas...
October 13, 2006
The Culture of Obstruction
Imagine for a moment a public official of the highest order. He was a confidant of the vice president and the president. Entrusted with the most sensitive national defense information, he enjoyed...
October 12, 2006
Still at Large: Qadhafi the War Criminal
It's hard to have any sympathy for Charles Ghankay Taylor. During his murderous fourteen-year rampage through West Africa, the former Liberian president was responsible - according...
October 12, 2006
In Nigeria False Prophets Are Real Problems
Last week a judge in Yola in the Nigerian state of Adamawa sentenced Musa Ali Suleiman (aka Musa Makaniki) to death by hanging. As his nom de guerre hints, Musa Makaniki is a mechanic who gave up...
October 11, 2006
Breaking China
The great 19th century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov said it was a rule of the theatrical stage: If a loaded gun appears in the first act, that gun will be fired before the curtain falls. It&#...
October 11, 2006
Ignore a Pyongyang, centre la atención en Pekín
El gran dramaturgo ruso del siglo XIX, Anton Chekhov, hablaba de una regla de teatro: Si una pistola cargada aparecía en el primer acto, esa pistola sería disparada antes de que baj...
October 11, 2006
Palestinians Invite Disaster, Yet Again
Here's one of the Mideast's few sure things: When there's a bad decision to make, Palestinian leadership will make it. Consider the region's latest intelligence buzz....
October 11, 2006
Take Ten: A decade’s worth of analysis.
Editor's Note: In the last ten years, how has the world changed, and how has it remained the same? As we mark our tenth anniversary here at National Review Online, we asked a group of commen...
October 10, 2006
Too Much Make-Believe
In the early years of the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia was effectively cut off from all sources of raw film stock. Luckily for the Soviets, cheap copies of the silent films imported during the wa...
October 9, 2006
The Significance of the “Dear Leader” Testing His Nuke
The announcement from the official Korea Central News Agency was couched in the communist state's usual blend of solipsistic discourse, hyperbole, and surrealism: The...
October 6, 2006
Going South
Whatever else can be said of the United Nations, it is remarkably predictable. Later this fall the organization will anoint a successor to Secretary-General Kofi Annan who is due to step down aft...
October 6, 2006
After Annan
Authored by Velykhan Velshi Kofi Annan's tenure as UN Secretary General will finish at the end of the year. His legacy will be one of scandal and failure. The UN peacekeepi...
October 5, 2006
Nigeria at the Crossroads
Over the long-term, perhaps no African country is as vital to the strategic interests of the United States as Nigeria. Alas, the country is also a study in contradictions. With some 35.9...
October 5, 2006
Guantanamo is Not the Problem
To fly into the damp Caribbean heat of this U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is to enter a place of multifaceted myth, a zone that continues to inflame the imagination of the world. And y...
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