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January 4, 2006 FISA Gotcha! What if President Bush had actually gone to the court created by the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act? Imagine if, instead of relying on his own constitutional authority, he ha... January 2, 2006 Kim Philby Was Here Richard Carlson is Vice Chairman of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism. He has experience in journalism and diplomacy and is a former United State... December 29, 2005 Freed Terrorist is One Too Many By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. Like millions of other Americans, I can't forget the brutal 1985 torture and murder of young U.S. naval officer Robert Dean Stethem. Appar... December 28, 2005 An Old-fashioned War To be fair to our enemies, they are only doing what comes naturally. We are the historical oddballs. Wars have been fought since time immemorial. The vast majority have been over power a... December 27, 2005 Mr. Sevan, I Presume At the United Nations, as a year of many scandals draws to a close, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has been trying to stuff some big unanswered questions down the memory hole--with mixed results. N... December 24, 2005 Sharon’s Next Step — Or Why I Gave up Jelly Donuts By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. Questions about Ariel Sharon's health have thrown the Mideast into a political dither. The seemingly indefatigable Israeli prime minister suffered... December 21, 2005 You Bet Your Life Let's roll the dice. It's been more than four years since terrorists slipped past American intelligence, eluded law enforcement and slaughtered thousands of Americans on American soil.... December 21, 2005 Crossing the Delaware, the Tigris, and the Euphrates By: Joseph Morisson Skelly, 2003 FDD Academic Fellow. On the night of December 25, 1776, with the winter wind whipsawing the water, with waves ripping across the bows of their l... December 21, 2005 The Blow-Up In a telling moment at a United Nations press conference Wednesday, Secretary-General Kofi Annan lost his temper–hurling insults at a widely respected senior member of the U.N. press corps.... December 14, 2005 Misguided Morality No one favors torture. Torture is already illegal under both U.S. and international law. Nonetheless, the United States is fighting a war against ruthless enemies who obey no rules. We cannot aff... December 14, 2005 Unserious Syriana How hopeless is Hollywood? More than four years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, America's movie moguls seem to have not a clue about who attacked us or why, or what sort o... December 14, 2005 McCain & Miranda Senator John McCain’s confusing and vague amendment, calling for a government-wide ban on coercive interrogation, appears to be a done deal. But President Bush should really bear the politi... December 13, 2005 The Elephant in the Middle East Living Room Early in November, hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee examined hate literature being distributed in American mosques. This material had been translated and published earlier this year... December 13, 2005 R., International Community One has to wonder whether Senator Lindsey Graham, in his haste to ban all forms of coercive interrogation — including those that are not torture and that may save American lives — has... December 13, 2005 Gebran Tueni, R.I.P. At a rally of the terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon this past March, among the chants of "Death to America" and the banners lauding Syria, some of the demonstrators brandished posters that thr... December 11, 2005 The International-Law Trap Who should decide what obligations the United States owes to the world? Who should determine what measures are necessary to protect the United States from attack? Should it be t... December 11, 2005 Egyptian Legislative Elections: A Reading of the Results Egypt completed the final round of balloting in legislative elections on December 7. The first round of polling took place on November 9; all told 5,414 candidates vied for 444 seats in the lower... December 8, 2005 U.N. Procurement Scandal: The Case of the Official Who Never Was Co-authored by: George Russell UNITED NATIONS — Trouble in the United Nations Procurement Division is now well established as the world organization’s successo... December 7, 2005 It’s Time to Investigate Able Danger and the 9/11 Commission ’Tis the season when annual performance awards are handed out. If there is one for chutzpah, could there possibly be a more worthy candidate than the 9/11 commission? It appears th... December 7, 2005 Purple Fingers of Freedom I was having dinner with some people I didn't know well, and I happened to mention that a good deal of my time in recent years has been spent working with Arabs and Muslims on questions rela... November 30, 2005 We Have Ways To Make You Talk Abu Ghraib was a travesty and a tragedy. It tarnished America's reputation and credibility. It gave ammunition to America's enemies and critics. It set back progress in Iraq. W... November 29, 2005 Don’t Shred on Me Paul Volcker's findings on Oil for Food have been widely received as the final word on the United Nations relief program for Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Far from it--as Mr. Volcker himself h... November 28, 2005 Our Troops Must Stay I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the last 17 months and can report real progress there. More work needs to be done, of course, but the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed... November 27, 2005 The “Moral Authority” Canard In Rhetoric, Aristotle observed that personal character is often the most formidable weapon in the speaker’s arsenal–more persuasive, if skillfully deployed, than even the logical for... November 23, 2005 Israeli PM Bulldozing His Way to History By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. They don't call Ariel Sharon "The Bulldozer" for nothing. In a move that may reshape the Mideast map, the Israeli prime minister dramatically annou... November 23, 2005 Memo to Murtha Before I say anything else, Congressman Murtha, let me thank you -- for your long public service in Washington and, before that, in Vietnam. And let me commend you, too, for sparki... November 21, 2005 Atta in Prague Ed Epstein has stayed on the case and has done the 9/11 Commission one better: he has actually conducted something resembling an investigation into whether the top hijacker met with in Prague wit... November 21, 2005 New U.N. Scheme: Alliance of Civilizations Co-authored by: George Russell NEW YORK — After the epic disaster of Oil for Food, one might imagine the United Nations would tread carefully before launching any ne... November 20, 2005 A Hashemite Revolution? By: Dr. Walid Phares. In world history, it is rare to see a monarchy leading a revolution, but in Jordan, it may be happening now. Since the bloody strikes by terrorist Abu Mus&... November 20, 2005 Fitzgerald’s Day The two-year criminal investigation into the “outing” of Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee ended with a whimper rather than the bang so obsessively sought by the Bush administrat... November 17, 2005 The Mercedes Monologues The mystery of the Kojo-and-Kofi-Annan Mercedes Benz gets deeper by the day. The real riddle by now is why the U.N. secretary-general’s office keeps dodging all questions about the fate of... November 16, 2005 An Incomplete Investigation It was interesting to hear from the 9/11 Commission again on Tuesday. This self-perpetuating and privately funded group of lobbyists and lawyers has recently opined on hurricanes, nuclear weapons... November 16, 2005 What Good Is NATO? World War II was fought against totalitarianism of the Nazi, Fascist and Japanese Militarist varieties. After the war, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created to defend the Free World... November 15, 2005 ‘Divide’ and Conquer? If Paul Revere were alive today, he'd have his midnight work cut out for him. Most likely he'd be spreading the alarm not on horseback, but by Internet: The U.N. is coming! The U.N. is... November 15, 2005 Snatching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory I wrote Monday that late last week, the Senate–after a year-and-a-half of fiddling while Rome burned–had finally acted to bar al Qaeda terrorists detained in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, fro... November 14, 2005 Say “No” to the McCain Amendment Terrorists do not just flout the laws of war. They turn them into an offensive weapon. When they are not killing civilians, they are hiding among them. When they are not blowing up civilian infra... November 13, 2005 Restoring Law & Order P. Sabin Willett, one of the lawyers who has flocked to Guantanamo Bay to volunteer his services in aid of America’s enemies, has a specious op-ed in Monday’s Washington Post. He char... November 13, 2005 Mercedes Mystery What does it take to get promoted by Kofi Annan at the United Nations? For longtime U.N. staffer Abdoulie Janneh, it took less than two weeks after his recent testimony to investigators helped cl... November 9, 2005 A General’s ‘Suicide’ By: Amb. Richard Carlson & Barbara Newman. The conclusion of United Nations investigators that Syria's leadership planned the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Min... November 9, 2005 Blaming America First We had gathered at the venerable University Philosophical Society of Trinity College, Dublin to debate the resolution: “This house believes that George W. Bush is a danger to world stabilit... November 9, 2005 Death as a Political Option By: Amb. Richard Carlson & Barbara Newman. The conclusion of United Nations' investigators that Syria's leadership planned the assassination of former Lebanese Pri... November 9, 2005 Jordan’s 11/9 By: Dr. Walid Phares. After every jihadist terror attack or violent outburst around the world, the mainstream media always advances its myriad theories about the so-called &ldqu... November 7, 2005 A Patriotic Partnership Authored by: Elise M. Stefanik, FDD Student Fellow. At Harvard, discourse surrounding the U.S. military is awash with issues such as President Bush’s foreign policy, the w... November 6, 2005 A War of the Worlds By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. It's a French cauchemar, a national nightmare with global overtones. For more than a week, gangs of mostly Muslim youngsters have been raging throu... November 2, 2005 When Someone Tells You He Wants to Kill You – Take Him Seriously Call it Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Mein Kampf moment. Eighty years ago, Adolf Hitler published an autobiography-cum-manifesto. Its title translates as “My Struggle.” In... November 1, 2005 Winning, One Student at a Time Authored by: Joseph Morrison Skelly, 2003 FDD Academic Fellow. Dr. Talib Al-Zaidi was an Iraqi patriot. That is precisely why terrorists in Baquba murdered him. But with the ass... November 1, 2005 Islam, Democracy & Assimilation On the one-year anniversary of the brutal, Euro-shattering murder of Theo van Gogh in the Netherlands, Prince Charles–future sovereign of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ir... November 1, 2005 Free Muhamad Mugraby Officially, Lebanon is now free, and its former Baathist overlords in Syria are isolated from the international community following initial findings by United Nations investigators that high-rank... October 28, 2005 Iran Calls for Israel to “Be Wiped Off the Map” The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies – Briefing Iran's Call For Israel to “Be Wiped Off the Map” – Responses Jonathan L. Snow ... October 26, 2005 The Myth of Stability In just a few days, I'm to debate at the University Philosophical Society of Trinity College, Dublin. Trinity was founded in 1592. The Philosophical Society – better kno...

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