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February 21, 2005 Wrong Turn in Lebanon By: Dr. Walid Phares. When the blasts rocked Beirut, massacring former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri and his companions, history was taking a new turn in Lebanon: In the hours aft... February 16, 2005 Terrorism’s Victims It is a common misperception that most terrorism is directed against Jews and Christians. The fact is no group has suffered more than Muslims from radical Islamist violence. Especially at risk ar... February 16, 2005 Say What? The Wall Street Journal’s Latest: An Asylum Tutorial With today's offering following hard on Monday's skewed Eason Jordan rant, it has become necessary to ask: What is going on at the Wall Street Journal's editorial page this week?... February 15, 2005 Opposition During Wartime By: Andrew Apostolou. Opposing a government in wartime is proving to be a frustrating experience for the political enemies of president George W. Bush and prime minister Tony Bl... February 14, 2005 Lynne Stewart & Me; Justice and Sadness Maybe she’s just bipolar. I've had this queasy feeling in my stomach ever since I learned, back in 2002, that my old Office — the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Sou... February 13, 2005 Contra Iran In quoting my bewilderment as to what policy Washington should adopt to prevent Iran's theocrats from obtaining nuclear weapons, Franklin Foer neglects to mention that I was endeavoring to a... February 13, 2005 It’s No “Kerfuffle” The Wall Street Journal has a very strange editorial this morning regarding the controversy (which it gently labels a "kerfuffle") that resulted last Friday night in the resignation of CNN's... February 13, 2005 Kofi Annan’s Silence On February 3, the United Nations-authorized inquiry into the Oil-for-Food scandal, led by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, issued its first interim report. Volcker's most lurid... February 9, 2005 No Exit; The Choice is Between a Strategy for Victory — or Defeat When a politician or a journalist talks about an “exit strategy” from Iraq, there is only one appropriate response: Roll your eyes and leave the room. Imagine some senator or... February 8, 2005 One Down, Two to Go; Democracy Has Come to Iraq. Is There Hope for North Korea? It's not only in the Middle East that Iraq's election lights a way. Let us turn to what may be the world's most abandoned population, 23 million souls living under a government tha... February 7, 2005 We Will Never Forget This Day – Election Day in Iraq By: Joseph Morrison Skelly, 2003 FDD Academic Fellow. A few weeks ago the election season opened with a bang in Baquba, a city of 280,000 people located on the eastern edge of t... February 3, 2005 Our Friend in the Gallery By: Eleana Gordon. Wednesday night, Americans watched as President George W. Bush turned to the gallery of the U.S. Congress and recognized an Iraqi woman, Safia Taleb al-Suhail... February 3, 2005 1864 & Me Some of the good folks at Southern Appeal have taken umbrage at my essay Monday, which drew parallels between Sunday’s Iraq election and the American presidential election of 1864. At least... February 2, 2005 U.N. Follies Is the United Nations attempting self-parody? How else to explain the announcement that a panel has been elected to decide which complaints will be heard by the UN Human Rights Commissio... February 2, 2005 Bush Declares: Leaders of the Middle East, Tear Down Your Walls By: Dr. Walid Phares. President George Bush’s State of the Union address will be a momentous inspiration to millions of freedom-craving citizens of the Arab Middle East. A... February 1, 2005 Volcker’s Report Raises Questions of U.N.’s Role The interim report on the United Nations' scandal-wracked oil-for-food program is due to be released tomorrow, according to the U.N.-authorized Independent Inquiry Committee, led by a former... February 1, 2005 Make Up Your Mind It is too late in the day to rehearse why anyone not wearing a tinfoil hat to guard against invasive gamma rays should avoid squandering valuable time on anything written by Seymour Hersh. Been t... January 30, 2005 The Reachable Star In the short history of this novel democratic experiment, the national election would easily be the single most critical development ever...if there actually could be an election worthy of the na... January 29, 2005 The Whole Region Is Watching By: Ambassador Marc Ginsberg. Richard Daley, the late mayor of Chicago and a master of ward politics, would have been proud. In a Baghdad suburb last week, activists for Prime M... January 28, 2005 Iraqi Democracy Debuts in Pre-Election Debate Last Sunday, when Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi aired his infamous declaration of holy war against democracy, six main Iraqi leaders performed Iraq's first televised electoral debate on Al Hurra TV.... January 26, 2005 It’s Time to Recognize Taiwan’s Rights Remember that U.N. official who complained about Washington's contribution to the tsunami victims? He neglected to mention that even as he was deriding Americans as "stingy," the United Nati... January 25, 2005 Iraq’s Historic Debate On the same day that terrorist mastermind Abu Mus’ab al Zarqawi declared holy war on democracy, six principal Iraqi leaders appeared in their nation’s first televised electoral debat... January 19, 2005 The War of Ideas; It’s Time the Free World Began Seriously Fighting It An old saw has it that a lie can circle the globe before the truth even laces its sneakers. That's more accurate now – an era when satellites and the Internet have revolutionized commu... January 15, 2005 Oil-for-Food Audits Reveal Sevan as Mysterious Manager Perhaps Paul Volcker (search), head of the United Nations-authorized inquiry into the U.N. Oil-for-Food program, was speaking solely of graft when he said recently that the internal audits of Oil... January 13, 2005 A Nominee and the Attack; Michael Chertoff’s Experience In its eminently fair profile on Wednesday of Judge Michael Chertoff, President George W. Bush's extraordinarily able nominee to become the second secretary of the Department of Homeland Sec... January 12, 2005 Moderate Mahmoud? Don’t Ask the Impossible of the New Palestinian Leader – Demand the Possible Inste Americans, Europeans, Israelis, diplomats, reporters, editorialists -- just about everybody wants Mahmoud Abbas, the newly elected president of the Palestinian Authority, to be a moderate. So the... January 11, 2005 A Chance for Peace? There were no televised debates, an underwhelming turnout and charges of serious ballot stuffing. But the election of Mahmoud Abbas as the new Palestinian leader is one of the first promising sig... January 11, 2005 Another Trail to Follow; Did Saddam Hussein Loot a Fund to Compensate Victims of the 1990 Invasion? Let's be honest. Along with United Nations secrecy, Saddam Hussein's perfidy, and the general coyness of the bribed, one of the big obstacles to getting to the bottom of the Oil for Foo... January 9, 2005 Jihadists and the Big Lie As soon as the news of the killer tsunami aired, and the estimated fatalities started to escalate, most of the world reacted with sorrow and kindness.The reaction of jihadists and the clerics of... January 9, 2005 Abbas’ Victory: Until Jihad comes back? As of mid Sunday, Western media networks were in awe as of the results of the Palestinian presidential election. Anchors and newswires projected a landslide result in favor of Mahmoud Abbas, the... January 9, 2005 A Tale of Two Elections; Abbas and Allawi Authored by Andrew Apostolou The Palestinian election on January 9 was the first of two important national votes in the Middle East, the second being the Iraqi polls on Jan... January 6, 2005 Fatuous: The Witnesses Against Judge Gonzales Torture Logic For hours, the confirmation hearing for the Attorney General designate, Alberto Gonzales, was grueling — for his detractors. The White House Counsel handled often strident questioning with... January 4, 2005 Should We Make a Treaty with al Qaeda? Since the early 1990s, al Qaeda has, at the very least, killed American soldiers and desecrated their remains in Somalia; urged the murder of all Americans — civilians and military alike &m... December 31, 2004 Iraqis Living Abroad Numbers reflect impressive turnout "One in four Iraq expats to vote," states the BBC, as registration for expatriates closed overseas. The insinuation is clear: not enough Iraqis have re... December 29, 2004 Superpower No More? Iraq is a Critical Test Is the United States a superpower? For years, we've assumed this was true. It was an easy assumption to make based on the amount of money we spend on our military and the high-tech... December 28, 2004 Iraq After Saddam’s Capture By: Dr. Walid Phares. Many asked the question last week: How is Iraq faring one year after the capture of Saddam Hussein? A Byzantine debate ensued immediately. To the natural a... December 28, 2004 Blue: The Next Orange? Forget Reform. The U.N. Needs Regime Change The advance of liberty and its attendant institutions can be a rough business, provoking stiff resistance by those who find their interests most threatened: the dictators, cronies and retinues of... December 22, 2004 A Battle Between Democracy and Terror When the Army of Ansar al Sunna – a group tied to al Qaeda – attacks an American base near Mosul it should be apparent that Iraq is the front line in the War on Terrorism. Wh... December 15, 2004 Shouldn’t Palestinians Have a Real Election? Shouldn't Palestinians Have a Real Election? In Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai defeated a raft of candidates to win his historic election. In Iraq, more than 200 political parties have r... December 14, 2004 ‘Never Say Never’; The Ukrainian Revolution and the Renaissance of Democracy Orange, rose, yellow. These are the colors not just of sunrise, but of a few of the many "people power" revolutions that over the past generation have been by increments changing the world. Yello... December 14, 2004 Serious on Syria By: Walid Phares and Robert G. Rabil. In early October, just days after the Syrian leadership had reportedly promised a U.S. delegation to Damascus that it would cooperate with... December 13, 2004 Material Support to Counterterrorism; The Intelligence Reform Act Shores Up a Key Law-Enforcement To A serious national debate is underway about how much the Intelligence Reform Act, which passed in both houses of Congress last week, will actually improve the performance of the intelligence comm... December 9, 2004 Contracts Chief Shown To Be Annan Son’s Main Cotecna Tie UNITED NATIONS - The next chapter of the Kofi Annan saga will focus on whether there was any real substance to the job for which the secretary-general's son, Kojo Annan, received lucrative p... December 8, 2004 International Law Targets American Sovereignty It is high time for the American people to ask: Just what is international law? Is it a body of obligations, rooted in the principles of consent and comity, that provides sovereign nations with a... December 8, 2004 Defend Arab Dissidents "It is outrageous and amazing," wrote Salama Ni'mat, a columnist for the London-based Arabic-language daily Al-Hayat, "that the first free and general elections in the history of the Arab na... December 6, 2004 Go Ahead, Make Our Day If Kofi Annan keeps his job, the upside is that we are going to learn a lot more about what ails the United Nations. Secretary-General Annan may not be the only cause of the secretive and self-se... December 5, 2004 Syria’s Murderous Role By: Amb. Richard Carlson, Barbara Newman, and William Cowan. A factor complicating the coalition mission of bringing stability to Iraq is the covert role played by Syria in fina... December 4, 2004 Iran and the Bomb Armed only with boxcutters, the 19 al-Qaida hijackers on Sept. 11, 2001 killed 3,000 people and caused hundreds of billions of dollars in damage to New York City, the Pentagon and the global econ... December 1, 2004 Give Freedom a Chance Readers of a certain age will recall the name Anatoli Sharansky. He was a Soviet dissident who in 1978 was tried by a kangaroo court, convicted of treason and shipped off to the Gulag. A... November 30, 2004 Secretary and Son "He is a grown man, and I don't get involved with his activities and he doesn't get involved with mine." Thus did the U.N. secretary-general, Kofi Annan distance himself at spe...

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