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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,... July 17, 2006 Course Correction Israel's war against Hezbollah is a watershed in the war on terror. As long as we understand that it's not just Israel's war. And it's not just against Hezbollah. Hez... July 17, 2006 Can The Lebanese Government Be Trusted? 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 16, 2006 Watching al-Manar The long war against radical Islam is a war of ideas as much as a war of arms. For decades, America, Israel, and other democracies have ignored the incitement and violent propaganda emanating fro... July 16, 2006 Stretched to All Proportions While Israel continues its war of self-defense following two invasions by neighboring governments, the usual critics of the Jewish state have managed to find a reason to show their disapproval.... July 13, 2006 Guilty! Oil-for-Food has had its first airing in federal court, and the verdict is in. South Korean businessman Tongsun Park was accused of conspiring to act as an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein&#0... July 12, 2006 Dangerous Fiction: A Tale of Two Cities, Part I Like Cassandra after Agamemnon's Greeks emerged from the Trojan Horse, I have had little time to derive any satisfaction from being justified in my longstanding warnings about the risks to i... July 12, 2006 A Widening War What must Hamas leaders have been thinking? Last month they sent guerrillas through a secret tunnel from Gaza into Israel where they launched an attack, killing two Israeli soldiers and kidnappin... July 12, 2006 Israel: “Act of War” "This was an act of war." Thus Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert succinctly summarized the facts, the law, and the consequences of the raid Wednesday by the Lebanese terrorist group-cum-governin... July 11, 2006 Ties that Bind Authored by Alykhan Velshi Bombay's residents are an eclectic and colorful bunch. Strolling through the city's neighborhoods, you're likely to find Hindus, Buddhi... July 11, 2006 The Jihadist War Against India Is this the beginning of the Jihadi war on India? Yes and no. Yes it is a jihadist war on India, but no, the trains' bombings weren't the beginning of that war. Unlike the U.S., Spain,... July 11, 2006 Mythical Myths Andrew Sullivan, via Georgetown's Marty Lederman (who has posted an analysis of “Myths” about the Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan and related issues), is quailing about NRO's... July 10, 2006 No Free Parking The United Nations keeps promising transparency. But for a real window on the U.N., skip the pronouncements of Turtle Bay. The better place to look right now is the federal courtroom in lower Man... July 10, 2006 Break It Off? Forget about long-term perspective — most of the elite media is either blatantly dishonest or simply incapable of even short-term memory. At least that's the impression given by the co... July 10, 2006 Dead Man Walking The Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld is a national-security disaster. Forget about its undermining of military commissions. Forget... July 5, 2006 The Hezbollah Nexus? The Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah has enjoyed a respite in Western news of late, even though it continues to augment its considerable weapons stockpile despite being required to disarm by U.... July 5, 2006 History as a Cartoon It is no secret that the attacks of September 11, 2001, resulted in two wars. The first was the one in which the United States finally engaged with Islamic terrorists, who had declared war when t... July 5, 2006 Sheikh Aweys Won’t Go Away (At Least by Himself) Regular readers of this column know that I have long warned of the against giving Africa the short shift in the war on terrorism, pointing to the militant Islamism's rise in Sub-Saharan poor... July 5, 2006 Resist Ballistic Blackmail In dealing with North Korea's test-firing of a missile designed to hit the USA, our worst mistake would be to rule out pre-emptive military action. Appeasement would be received by Pyongyang... July 4, 2006 “Don’t Feed the Animals” I spent part of my Independence Day enjoying New York's Central Park. I mention this in passing because there is a connection between my outing and the news I returned to my Upper West Side... June 30, 2006 Odd Alliance Working To Break America’s Oil Habit An improbable coalition of foreign-policy hawks and tree-hugging environmentalists have banded together to end America's dependence on foreign oil. The goal of the project is... June 30, 2006 Why Israel is Free to Set Its Own Borders During this spring's election campaign in Israel, Ehud Olmert was candid about his Kadima party's plan for disengagement from the West Bank. His message was simple: with no one to talk... June 28, 2006 The Non-Recognition “Recognition” "Led on by gushing reports filed on June 27 by the Associated Press (AP) and Agence France-Presse (AFP), media outlets report that Hamas and Fatah have reached a new agreement "implicitly recogni... June 28, 2006 Human Rights and Wrongs A few days ago, two American soldiers, Pfc. Kristian Menchaca of Houston, Texas, and Pfc. Thomas Tucker of Madras, Oregon, were taken prisoner in Iraq. They were brutally tortured, and so severel... June 27, 2006 The U.N.’s Day in Court While United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has already dismissed the Oil-for-Food scandal as over and done, within the wood-paneled walls of a Manhattan courtroom it has just come to life.... June 27, 2006 Pictures From an Institution From Oil-for-Food to peacekeeper rape to bribery in the procurement department, from nepotism to fraud to theft, the modern United Nations has become a carnival of scandal -- all the while unable... June 26, 2006 Lasering in on Leaks Anger over the leaking of national-defense information by the media may have hit critical mass with the exposure, by the New York Times and other newspapers, of the Terrorist Finance Tracking Pro... June 25, 2006 Take 26 Nobel Laureates, Add Hope, Stiry Gently… Sounds like a bad idea for a reality show: Gather 26 Nobel Prize laureates (including the Dalai Lama) at one isolated landmark. Add one king, one President, two prime ministers, assorted media an... June 25, 2006 Our Blind Spot President George W. Bush has made the global war on terrorism not only the cornerstone of his foreign policy, but perhaps the defining element of his... June 25, 2006 They’re Just More Important Than You Are The echo trails off the last defiantly gleeful chorus of “We Are the World.” Reality stubbornly dawns on you: There really are bad people out there. They are the world, too. And they... June 22, 2006 The Media’s War Against the War Continues Yet again, the New York Times was presented with a simple choice: help protect American national security or help al Qaeda.... June 22, 2006 Khobar Towers Ten years ago this Sunday, acting under direct orders from senior Iranian government leaders, the Saudi Hezbollah detonated a 25,000-pound TNT bomb that killed 19 U.S. airmen in their dormitory a...

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