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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&... August 9, 2006 The August Purge of Joe Lieberman Until this week, Senator Joseph Lieberman was the most prominent representative of the Scoop Jackson wing of the Democratic Party. Now, that wing is down to its last few feathers. On Tue... August 8, 2006 Terrorism? What’s That? Among the many reasons to beware the United Nations as a vehicle for peace in Israel, Lebanon, or any other part of the globe now threatened by Islamic terrorists, there is one item so obvious th... August 7, 2006 Hate to Say We Told You So, But… While events make it seem like an age ago, it was in fact exactly one month ago that TCS published a column whose prescience and eerie timing surprised even to us, its authors.... August 4, 2006 No Justice, No Peace? "No peace without justice" has become more than a pious mantra in contemporary international relations. Since the end of the Cold War, the establishment of mechanisms for legal accountability has... August 4, 2006 A War Crime at Qana? The Qana tragedy has intensified accusations that Israel's actions in Lebanon violate international law. Every death of an innocent person is extremely regrettable; but there is no evidence... August 3, 2006 Forgotten Interests: Why Cote d’Ivoire Matters Last week I participated on a panel on Capitol Hill under the aegis of the bipartisan Congressional Caucus for Côte d'Ivoire, co-chaired by Congressman John Boozman (R-Arkansas) and Co... August 2, 2006 Tehran & Damascus Move to Lebanon Lebanon-born Walid Phares is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Author of the recent book Future Jihad, he was also one of the architects of 2004's United Nati... August 2, 2006 Hezbollah’s Psych-Ops Hezbollah and its foreign sponsors deserve credit: They understand the perverse psychology of the Middle East. They knew they could launch a war against Israel and then have Israel get the blame... August 1, 2006 Stephen Breyer, the Court’s Necromancer Authored by Alykhan Velshi Originalism is the house judicial philosophy of conservatism. It maintains that the Constitution has a fixed and knowable meaning, that this meaning i... July 31, 2006 The Limits Of Lebanon’s “Democracy” In his weekly radio address on Saturday, President George W. Bush thrice described Lebanon's government as “democratic” and pledged that “we will stand with the democratic... July 29, 2006 Rolling Smear Co-Authored with Mark R. Levin In a screed Rolling Stone is passing off as journalism, James Bamford becomes the latest in a growing crowd of hacks to smear our friend Michael L... July 28, 2006 Symposium: Proving Saddam’s WMDs Despite the antiwar Left's favorite mantra about how Bush lied regarding WMDs in Iraq, the evidence now proves there were WMDs after all. According to recent announcement made by Se... July 27, 2006 Al Qaeda Moves to Africa While events in the Middle East understandably preoccupy American policymakers at the moment, we cannot afford to forget that Israel's war of self-defense against the terrorist Hamas and Hez... July 26, 2006 Who’s Dissin’ Whom As Israel fights to defend itself against the Iranian-and-Syrian-backed terrorists of Hezbollah, are we really seeing a reckless, damaging and — yes — disproportionate response?... July 26, 2006 War? What War? The Bush administration's reluctance to identify the enemy in the “war on terror” — to deal with the Islamic in Islamic milita... July 25, 2006 U.N.’s Human Shields As part of international efforts to end the conflict in southern Lebanon, there has emerged the scheme of a United Nations peacekeeping force to separate the opposing forces. NPR reports that U.N... July 23, 2006 Iran Pulls the War Strings Make no mistake. Israel's raging war with Hezbollah is more than a battle between the Jewish state and a fanatic Islamist enemy. It is a bloody, ruthless struggle whose outcome could determi... July 23, 2006 Hezbollah Lets Iran Buy Time for Nukes The big winner thus far in the clash between Hezbollah and Israel is Iran. Through attacks by its proxy, Hezbollah, Iran is deftly succeeding in distracting the world from the rapidly progressing... July 22, 2006 Hezbollah’s Iranian War in Lebanon When Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, secretary general of Hezbollah held his press conference to declare his new victory over his enemy, Israel, he was triggering –probably without knowing- a new... July 19, 2006 National Interests Start with what's best for Lebanon. For years, Lebanon was occupied by Syria for the benefit of Syria. The Cedar Revolution forced Syrian troops to depart but as former Secretary of State Ma... July 19, 2006 Inside Hezbollah’s Lebanon Authored by Barbara Newman As the Israeli military and the Lebanese Hezbollah exchange blows and Middle East violence escalates, the chattering class moves to center stage on th... July 19, 2006 Dangerous Fiction: A Tale of Two Cities, Part II Last week, I began this "Tale of Two Cities" by pointing to the danger inherent in confusing real effectiveness for the juridical fiction of international diplomatic recognition. Specifically, I... July 19, 2006 Central Park While the United Nations frames its next response to crisis in the Middle East, its last grand venture in that region -- Oil for Food -- has finally resulted in a guilty verdict in open court. La... July 18, 2006 Admirable Restraint As the armed conflict continues in the Middle East, many are finally starting to acknowledge that the connections between the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah and its Syrian and Iranian patrons... July 18, 2006 Now Isn’t the Time for Restraint Imagine that this morning 50 missiles were launched from Cuba and exploded in Miami. In addition to buildings and homes being destroyed, scores of Americans were being killed. Now imagine our all... July 18, 2006 Whither the Bush Doctrine? On May 31,...

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