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June 13, 2006 Supporting Iran’s Democratic Future Authored by Alykhan Velshi Policymakers are unsure what America's next steps should be in its long-running imbroglio with the Iranian regime. Should the United Sta... June 12, 2006 The Unreality of U.N. Reform Not to be outdone by his own ruckus-raising deputy, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan himself is now instructing the U.S. on how to treat t... June 12, 2006 Zarqawi Could Run, But Couldn’t Hide Authored by Jay Ambrose One of the most important things about the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is that the dropping of the bombs that shattered his lungs was made possible b... June 8, 2006 Creating Palestine Speaking at the White House during his recent visit to Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert renewed his call for negotiations with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the w... June 8, 2006 Zarqawi Death is an Important U.S. Victory What matters at least as much as the killing of al-Qaeda top terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq is that we, in America, appreciate it for the important battlefield victory it truly is.... June 7, 2006 A Crucial Moment Simply stated, the killing of Abu Musab Zarqawi by U.S. forces in Iraq is more vital to ultimate success in the war on terror than would be snuffing out any other terrorist alive right now. Perio... June 7, 2006 What Did Canadians Do to Deserve This? Are you surprised that terrorists appear to have set their sights on such unlikely targets as the Parliament building in Ottawa and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in Toronto? Astonished that any... June 7, 2006 Faith-Based Realpolitik Notwithstanding that it is arguably one of the strangest documents in the annals of modern diplomacy, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent 18-page letter to President George W. Bus... June 4, 2006 The Elephant in the Room Over the weekend, Canadian authorities apparently smashed a frightening plot involving Islamic terrorists who planned a series of bombings against sites in southern Ontario. Instinctively, the ma... June 4, 2006 Jihad: From London to Toronto Over the past nine months, speeches by Usama Bin Laden, Ayman Zawahiri, other Jihadi cadres and the documents found after the arrest of Terror-architect Abu Mus'ab al Suri all put the... June 1, 2006 Activist Suits Challening Terrorist Surveillance Should Be Dismissed The ongoing controversy over the National Security Agency's (NSA) terrorist surveillance program has, inevitably, generated civil litigation. Federal lawsuits have been filed in the Sou... May 31, 2006 REM: Islamist Terrorist Regime in Khartoum In those now seemingly far-off days before the ubiquitous worldwide web, for the technologically savvy REM did not mean "rich-media email marketing." Rather REM was short for "remarks" and was us... May 31, 2006 Putin and Russia’s Middle Eastern Policy Auhtored by Ilya Bourtman Russian President Vladimir Putin is currently pursuing a two track policy towards the Middle East, allowing Russia to develop friendly ties with Israel... May 31, 2006 What Saudis Preach Nearly four years ago, Saudi dissident Ali al-Ahmed and author Stephen Schwartz conducted a study for the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. They examined textbooks and other publications... May 31, 2006 Unimpeachable? Yesterday, NRO ran an article I'd written about the House of Representatives' mishandling of the controversy surrounding Rep. William Jefferson and the search of his congressional offic... May 30, 2006 Questions for the House Admirers of the House Republicans can only sit in stunned amazement watching what is an increasingly disastrous spectacle over the FBI's execution of a search warrant on the congressional of... May 29, 2006 Who’s “Trampling” the Constitution? Later today, the Republican-led Congress is scheduled to raise to new heights of hysteria and arrogance its protest against the FBI's search of the Capitol Hill office of Rep. William J. Jef... May 25, 2006 A Modest Proposal for Darfur As I write these lines, the genocidal slaughter, both direct and indirect, continues in the western Sudanese region of Darfur. This is notwithstanding the peace accord recently signed between the... May 22, 2006 West Bank Terrorist State What does one say to a good ally who seems determined to reinforce failure? That the U.S. will pay for the undertaking? Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is in Washington, where h... May 17, 2006 Data-mining is the President’s Duty The latest outbreak of controversy over Bush administration efforts to protect our nation from terrorist attack starkly demonstrates that the left and civil liberties extremists are determined to... May 17, 2006 The Brazilian Connection SAO PAULO - When I arrived in this sprawling commercial capital a few days ago, to speak at an international conference on “liberal democracy,” the last thing I expected was to find m... May 17, 2006 Keeping an Eye on the “Peacekeepers” The Bush administration has recently shown an uncharacteristic enthusiasm for United Nations peacekeeping efforts. Last week Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice was dispatched to New York to reinf... May 15, 2006 Egyptian Emergency Once again, the Egyptian regime has responded to violence at home by consolidating the authoritarian structure of the state. On April 30, following two deadly terrorist attacks in the Sinai, Pres... May 11, 2006 Tenured Radical No More As university professors, we value academic freedom, acknowledging -- as did the authors of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP)'s influential 1940 Statement of Principle... May 10, 2006 Facing Reality in Somalia Imagine a country within the greater Middle East ambit that has successfully made the transition to electoral democracy with multiparty municipal, presidential, and, most recently, parliamentary... May 10, 2006 Rue Britannia Vicious as the 9/11/01 atrocities in New York and Washington were, there is a way in which the 7/7/05 attacks in London were worse. On 9/11, Americans were attacked by foreigners, by peo... May 7, 2006 Why Wang Wenyi Was Shouting: Is Beijing committing atrocities against the Falun Gong movement? Wang Wenyi, the woman whose shouts disrupted the welcoming ceremony for Chinese president Hu Jintao on the White House lawn on April 20, is a middle-aged pathologist and a follower of Falun Gong.... May 5, 2006 This Is No Way to Fight a War A signal moment of clarity pierced through the devastation of September 11, 2001. An eight-year jihadist campaign, culminating in a morning of carnage more massive than Pearl Harbor, finally conv... May 4, 2006 A Supreme Mess Even the United Nations' own employees don't trust it to deliver justice. Just ask Cynthia Brzak, an American who has worked for the past 26 years at the U.N. refugee office in Geneva,... May 3, 2006 Offers We Can’t Refuse? An Iraqi acquaintance served as a member of a city council. She is Shia and religious. She had formed an alliance with other Iraqi women – Shia, Sunni and Christian; Arab and Kurd; religiou... May 3, 2006 Militant Islamism’s Shadow Rises Over Sub-Saharan Africa While the genocidal activities currently being perpetrated in the Darfur region of western Sudan at the instance of the country's Khartoum-based Arabist Islamist regime – and this comi... May 2, 2006 What a Bunch of Winners Here's one for the new ethics office at the United Nations: Not only do we now know that Secretary-General Kofi Annan accepted a $500,000 prize from the ruler of Dubai, courtesy of a judges&... May 2, 2006 Prognosis: Doom Conventional wisdom tells us that September 11, 2001, changed everything. The suicide hijacking attacks were supposed to be a clarion call to a new conception of public safety and of national sec... April 30, 2006 The Muslim World’s New Martyrs It's one of today's most compelling news stories, yet it's all but ignored by most of the international media. I'm talking about the growing persecution of Christian minoritie... April 27, 2006 Spare the Rod, Spoil the Peace The Bush administration announced earlier this month that the United States was ending direct financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA), now that the terrorist group Hamas is install... April 27, 2006 Face it, We’re Addicted Co-Authored with Gal Luft Some say that policies to promote energy independence would hinder prosperity. They claim that attempts to meet this goal after the 1970s' oil sho... April 27, 2006 Not for the Feint of Heart The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades), by Robert Spencer (Regnery, 233 pp., $19.95) It is often said that in order to keep polite company polite, we must refrain fr... April 26, 2006 The Middle East Link to Africa’s Conflicts In an earlier commentary in this series, I lamented the fact that, despite clear and substantial evidence of terrorist activities, Sub-Saharan Africa remains largely ignored by both policymakers... April 26, 2006 Break the Oil Monopoly A hundred years ago, Americans could have personal vehicles powered by internal combustion engines running on gasoline. Today, Americans can have personal vehicles powered by internal combustion... April 26, 2006 To Bomb, or Not to Bomb WHEN I WAS RECENTLY in Paris, a French diplomat explained to me why he--and many others in the French foreign ministry--thought the United States would, in the end, bomb Iran's nuclear-weapo... April 25, 2006 United Nations Probes Sale of Irreplaceable Stamp Archive Co-Authored with George Russell Amid the many scandals at the United Nations, a new mystery now looms. What happened to the world organization's unique and valuable postal... April 24, 2006 Reporters and Investigations National Review's Byron York sensibly asks: what are the next steps in the investigation into the intelligence community's leaking of classified information to the press, including the... April 23, 2006 Israel’s Fence, With all its Implications, is an Absolute Necessity Having traveled to Israel recently and many times over the past 35 years or so, I take profound exception to the accusations leveled at Israel by my old friend and syndicated columnist Robert Nov... April 22, 2006 Why Isn’t She in Cuffs? There are countless questions that arise out of the CIA's dismissal of a prominent intelligence officer, Mary O. McCarthy (no relation), for leaking classified information to the media. But... April 19, 2006 Bring Me the Head of Donald Rumsfeld The question is not whether Donald Rumsfeld should resign. The question is not even who should replace him. The question is: What goals would a new Secretary of Defense set, and what strategies w... April 19, 2006 The War on Terrorism’s Forgotten Front In early March, two American warships, the cruiser USS Cape St. George and the destroyer USS Gonzalez, were conducting maritime security operations off Somalia when a suspected "pirate" boat open... April 19, 2006 Human Rights in China “Human Rights in China” House International Relations Committee Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights and International Operations Testimony of Ethan Gutm... April 19, 2006 The War on Terrorism’s Forgotten Front In early March, two American warships, the cruiser USS Cape St. George and the destroyer USS Gonzalez, were conducting maritime security operations off Somalia when a suspected "pirate" boat open... April 18, 2006 Politicized Pulitzers By sheer coincidence, the winners of journalism's Pulitzer Prizes were announced on the same day the Sami al-Arian terrorism case finally ended. The two make an interesting combination.... April 16, 2006 Iraq Is the War on Terror The Bush administration evidently believes revisiting the case for toppling Saddam Hussein is a political loser. That this conclusion — which, of course, has played in the media like a taci...

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