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May 21, 2005 Tough Surprise PREVENTING SURPRISE ATTACKS: Intelligence Reform in the Wake of 9/11 By Richard A. Posner Rowman & Littlefield, 208 Pages, $18.95 RICHARD A. Posner is a rare breed. A U... May 19, 2005 Abbas Talks, Won’t Walk the Walk… By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. With Israel set to withdraw from the Gaza Strip this summer, you'd think everyone would focus on the Jewish state's daring gamble for peace. I... May 18, 2005 MAD No More; Can America’s New Enemies be Deterred? Once upon a time, "credible deterrence" was the main pillar of America's national security strategy. The Soviet Union may have been, as President Reagan said, an “evil empire.” B... May 18, 2005 The Long-Planned “Spontaneous” Riots By: Dr. Walid Phares. With one sentence, Newsweek triggered a series of violent intifadas in countries as remote as Pakistan, Afghanistan, and beyond. That's at least how m... May 18, 2005 How the Lebanese Won Their Freedom Back By: Dr. Walid Phares. Since the Israeli withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, four major benchmarks have had an impact on Lebanese politics: the 9/11, the Syria Accountabili... May 17, 2005 Galloway Deplores U.S. Probe of U.N. WASHINGTON - A left-wing member of the British Parliament, George Galloway, named by Senate investigators as having been granted lucrative rights by Saddam Hussein to buy oil under the U.N. oil-f... May 17, 2005 Our Insular Media With Newsweek's retraction of its story about Koran abuse at Guantanamo Bay, we are now deep into yet another bout of soul-searching by the U.S. media. The pity would be if, in all the parsi... May 16, 2005 The Smug Delusion of Base Expectations We’re in the grips of a pathology. And it’s not media bias. Here's the late-breaking news (you'll want to be sitting down for this): The mainstream media is ideolog... May 14, 2005 Uday’s Oil-for-News Program Co-authored by: Eric Stakelbeck. On January 6, 2005, the U.S.-funded Arabic satellite network Al Hurra broadcast an explosive exposé detailing the financial links between... May 12, 2005 Oil for Food: The List Goes On When Senator Norm Coleman (R., Minn.) last year compared the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal to “an onion,” he had just one thing... May 12, 2005 Confessing Error Making an unsound argument is bad. Leaving it uncorrected is worse. Since I would prefer to be bad than worse, it’s time–for me, at least–to reconsider filibusters.... May 11, 2005 Know Thy Enemy The United States is not fighting a war against terror. Terror is an emotional response. Fighting a war against terror makes no more sense than fighting a war against greed or envy. Are... May 11, 2005 Alhurra is at the Heart of the War of Ideas By: Dr. Walid Phares. Debate and discussion are at the cornerstone of any democracy. There have been many changes throughout the Middle East in the past year with the elections... May 8, 2005 Congressional Team and Volcker Committee Wrangle Over Secret Evidence About Annan The hottest question right now in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal is who has rights to boxfuls of secret evidence concerning the secretary-general of the world body, Kofi Annan. Congressional inves... May 4, 2005 The Battle for Britain By: Andrew Apostolou. The war against terrorism has barely registered as an issue in the British general election campaign. Yet underlying this campaign has been a worrying tren... May 4, 2005 Kofi’s Break Kofi Annan is not a crook. Or, to be more precise, the United Nations Secretary-General has not been convicted of criminal activity. It is possible that the investigations now underway w... May 3, 2005 Congress Probes Routing of Funds To Suspect Firms Investigators looking into the U.N. oil-for-food program, poring over documents provided to Congress here, are discovering that vast sums intended for humanitarian purposes in Iraq were rerouted... May 3, 2005 Happy Days Are Here Again It's always risky to celebrate security and good times, especially in an age when there is no way to rule out that along with the usual perils of life, we will suffer another terrorist attac... May 1, 2005 Bad Packaging of a Good Effort The State Department and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) have disclos... April 27, 2005 Release ‘Em Terrorist attacks globally are up sharply. Perhaps by well over 300 percent. That’s bad. But it’s a fact. Given that international terrorism is the defining national-security issue of... April 27, 2005 Teddy Kennedy Yelled at Me! So Shouldn’t He Resign? For 20 years I have kept my silence. I will do so no longer. In the debate over John Bolton's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, it finally has been made clear to me tha... April 26, 2005 Rohrabacher To Probe Role Of French Bank Rohrabacher To Probe Role Of French Bank Next up in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal is a trip down the money trail, by way of the French bank tapped by the United Nations - in cahoots with Saddam H... April 24, 2005 Bolton’s Critics and Intelligence Failure The most recent angle of attack on President Bush’s nomination of John Bolton to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations speaks volumes about... April 21, 2005 The Road Back to Damascus By: Amb. Richard Carlson & Barbara Newman. There is no better time than the present for the U.S. to press its advantage in the Mideast; to further pressure Syrian president... April 20, 2005 Muscular Idealism You can't fight terrorism without fighting terrorists. You have to eliminate both those who load cars with explosives and those who tell them where to go and whom to kill. Most people grasp... April 20, 2005 Benedict Should Face Off with Persecutors of his Flock By: Dr. Walid Phares. As soon as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pontiff, the new Pope Benedict XVI fell in the crosshair of a highly politicized media around the world, a... April 19, 2005 Stale Kofi Yet more scandal at the United Nations? Secret deals, millions in bribes, leading to billions in global kickbacks? What to do? Have no fear, reform is here. The United Nations has alread... April 17, 2005 Canadian Tycoon Could Assist In U.N. Probe Who are the two mysterious high-ranking U.N. officials fingered in one of the latest indictments of the oil-for-food scandal? The indictment, issued last Thursday, doesn't give the... April 13, 2005 Not-So-Secret Agents Perhaps there was a good reason why secret agents used to stay secret. So long as espionage was a profession that average citizens encountered only in fiction, we could imagine spies wer... April 13, 2005 Material Support to… “Business Professionals” Back in July, the Justice Department held a bells-’n-whistles press conference to announce a major case: a 42-count indictment, charging seven men and an ostensible charity with underwritin... April 9, 2005 “Hell, No”– He’s Not Exonerated In the epic United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal, we now have a moment of high farce, with what will surely be remembered as Kofi Annan's "Hell, no" press conference--named for the secretary... April 6, 2005 The Pope of Freedom By: Dr. Walid Phares. It was October 1978, during the Lebanon war. Syrian artillery pounded the free enclave of my motherland: Dozens of civilians were killed every day. As a la... April 6, 2005 John Paul’s Final Victory The threat posed by Islamist extremism was not widely recognized prior to September 11, 2001. And, after 9/11, Pope John Paul II was too frail to energetically address it. But what the P... April 6, 2005 Spinning the Patriot Act Andrew Napolitano has embarrassed himself enough times that one would think Fox News might have him do a little homework before passing off still mor... April 5, 2005 ‘The Truth’: A Simple Demand From the Lebanese and Oppressed People Everywhere A friend was wondering the other day what frontiers are left to explore, now that scientists have pretty much mapped the planet. The answer, I'd suggest, lies less in the stars than along th... March 31, 2005 Has the War in Iraq Helped to Spread Democracy? There were those who predicted that if American forces over-threw Saddam Hussein the Arab Street would rise in response. They were right. It's happening -- for example, in Lebano... March 28, 2005 A Response to Prof. Swire Professor Peter Swire's thoughtful response goes wrong in three major respects. First, he gives short shrift to the national security threat. If we were not actually facing a public... March 28, 2005 A Response to Professor Cole First, he gives short shrift to the national security threat. If we were not actually facing a public safety challenge, individual interests in the privacy of financial, medical and reading recor... March 23, 2005 Syria’s Secret War By: Dr. Walid Phares. Officially, Syria is making plans to pull back its occupying forces from Lebanon. But according to sources inside the “Cedar Revolution,” the g... March 23, 2005 Why We Fought Two years ago this week, the American invasion of Iraq was underway. Why had we gone to war? In the months leading up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, President Bush repeatedly gave his reasons.... March 22, 2005 Giving Till It Hurts Upfront I must acknowledge a debt to Jeffrey Sachs. One night a decade back, when I was reporting for this newspaper out of Moscow, the power blew out as deadline was approaching, taking with it... March 22, 2005 Syrian Dissidents Find Their Voice As Lebanon Provides a Megaphone With Lebanese democrats speaking up and Syria's occupying forces pulling out, it may sound unsurprising that one of Beirut's leading Arabic newspapers ran a searing critique this week o... March 22, 2005 In Deep Trouble There he goes again. "This hall has heard enough high-sounding declarations to last us for some decades to come," Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the U.N. General Assembly Monday. "Wha... March 20, 2005 As Window of Opportunity Opens in Lebanon, Hope Surges Above a busy shopping street where a bomb blew out the front walls of a building Friday night, injuring nine people, there now stretches a long row of glittering lights. Local authorities have re... March 17, 2005 The Russia-Syria Connection Dr. Walid Phares gave the following testimony before the U.S. Senate on the issue of Russia's arming of longtime ally Syria.... March 16, 2005 Michael Scheuer’s Bloody Logic By: Andrew Apostolou. M... March 16, 2005 Fighting the War of Ideas President Bush's appointment of Karen Hughes and Dina Powell to the two top communications jobs in the State Department tells us this: He recognizes that perception is as important as realit... March 16, 2005 Lebanon Celebrates Freedom With Humor, Communication BEIRUT, Lebanon - Along with Monday's landmark demonstration for freedom, Lebanese democrats are sending around by e-mail their own deck of cards, featuring the most wanted - or rather the m... March 14, 2005 Million Lebanese Stage Massive Retort to Terrorists Flags fluttering, horns honking, and fingers flashing V for victory, Lebanon's opposition converged on downtown Beirut yesterday in the biggest democratic protest in the history of the moder... March 13, 2005 Lebanese Staging Rallies Demanding ‘the Truth’ Behind Hariri Murder BEIRUT - With a crucial democratic protest planned for today, members of Lebanon's opposition held a vigil last evening, setting out candles across a big swathe of downtown Martyrs' Squ...

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