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May 31, 2003 The Real Roots of Islamic Extremism By Stephen Schwartz The victimized terrorists are variously thought to be directing their anger against Western-induced poverty; the Western-supported rise of Israel; or the Western impe... May 26, 2003 Slippery Roads Americans live in Canada. Canadians live in the United States. There are Germans in France, and Frenchmen in Germany, There are Arab citizens of Israel and, of course, there will be Jews in any n... May 25, 2003 Throwing Out the Baath Water By Amb. Richard Carlson The other day, General Tommy Franks made a pleasing announcement: The ruling Baath Socialist party of Iraq was dead, its carcass hung upside down on a fence. Afte... May 21, 2003 The Fire Next Time Is the War on Terrorism a real war? If this is the real thing – not just a metaphorical war like the War on Poverty or the War on Drugs – you have to expect real casualties; you can&#... May 20, 2003 What Would Scoop Do? By Donna Brazile and Timothy Bergreen Forty-eight hours after President Bush told a cheering throng of sailors on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln that major combat in Iraq was over,... May 20, 2003 Road Building By Ithaar Derweesh Despite the latest terrorist attacks, the conventional wisdom in Washington, D.C. remains that the "roadmap" for peace between Israel and the Palestinians offers the g... May 19, 2003 Trouble on Long Island By Stephen Schwartz On Saturday, May 10, I was welcomed to a memorial in Queens, honoring Shi'a clerics killed by the fascist Saddam regime. Hundreds of Shi'a imams were brutal... May 18, 2003 Road Rage Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was to meet with President Bush on Tuesday to take a hard look at the "roadmap" to Middle East peace, to decide if it's really possible to get there from... May 15, 2003 Saudi Spinning By Stephen Schwartz DENIAL IS A RIVER in Arabia, not Egypt. The proof of this axiom came Friday. In place of a serious assessment of the Saudi kingdom's increasing loss of credibili... May 14, 2003 The Real Saudi Arabia The Monday bombings in Riyadh are only the latest evidence that the Saudi government cannot and will not suppress extremism. The wake-up calls keep coming, but the U.S. refuses to recognize the k... May 14, 2003 Wahhabi Horse The latest suicide-terrorist attacks once again raise this question:  Are the Saudis the enemies or the allies of al Qaeda? The answer, frustratingly, is both. We know that al Q... May 11, 2003 Mr. Hariri Goes to Washington By Amb. Richard Carlson According to the Washington Post, a fellow you've probably never heard of named Rafik Hariri wants to build a $25 million house in Washington, D.C., a Kenned... May 7, 2003 Fork in the Road Map It happened 55 years ago. Israel had declared its independence on May 14th, 1948 and was immediately invaded by Arab armies intent on strangling the infant nation in its cradle.... May 4, 2003 Demise of a Dictator By Amb. Richard Carlson Those who have followed the war of liberation in Iraq know how slanted and unfair the news coverage has been in parts of the Arab world. Quotes like this from Pal... May 4, 2003 North of the Border By Stephen Schwartz WHILE WESTERN MEDIA and politicians peddle their alarums in the aftermath of Iraq's liberation, focusing on Syria and Iran, attention should also be paid to Saud... May 1, 2003 A Battle Is Won President Bush's address to the nation Thursday night was more than just an inspired photo op and a tribute to the troops. It also was a welcome elaboration of the president's vision of... April 30, 2003 Abu Mazen’s Alternative to Terrorism Death and destruction aside, what is most disturbing about Tuesday's terrorist attack in Tel Aviv is who has claimed responsibility. The attack was jointly planned by Hamas and the Al Aqsa M... April 30, 2003 Bombs, Bugs and Poisons “We have yet to find any weapons of mass destruction. …Does it matter that we were misled into war?” - New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, 4/29/03... April 29, 2003 U.S. foreign policy an ideological struggle between Powell, Rumsfeld camps By Philip Dine WASHINGTON _ The outcome of a tug-of-war between the administration's two most powerful Cabinet members _ Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Col... April 27, 2003 Bashing Bashar By Amb. Marc Ginsberg ACCORDING TO pre-Islamic Alawi belief, people at first were stars in the world of light, but fell from celestial orbit through disobedience. Faithful Alawis believe... April 26, 2003 Winning the Peace Start by recognizing what's already been achieved: With the toppling of Saddam Hussein the United States has removed a ticking time bomb, neutralized a sworn enemy who was preparing to take... April 24, 2003 Syria and Bashar Assad Assad provided Saddam with military support, including night... April 23, 2003 Foggier Bottom Look at the history of the last dozen years and you can only come to one conclusion: Generals learn; ambassadors don't. In 1991, U.S. forces methodically and efficiently pushed Sadd... April 22, 2003 The Two Faces of Fascism By Stephen Schwartz What is the difference between Dennis "Justin" Raimondo, who publicly encouraged U.S. service personnel to desert, not long before the Iraq operation began, and his a... April 20, 2003 Mogadishu, Mon Amour American and European intellectual elites were not moved to action when 182,000 Kurds - a people who trace their history back more than 3,000 years - were slaughtered by Saddam Hussein.... April 19, 2003 Selective Outrage By Stephen Schwartz I was as disturbed as any student of Near Eastern and Islamic history would be at the destruction of the National Library in Baghdad in the chaos following Iraq'... April 17, 2003 Oil, Food and a Whole Lot of Questions President Bush's call to lift economic sanctions against Iraq could mean the end of the United Nations oil-for-food program, which has overseen the country's oil sales since 1996. Not o... April 16, 2003 But Who Was Protecting Iraqis From Human Shields? .By Norah Vincent The ironies of war are always bitter, but few are rich and still fewer have ever been quite so rich as those that have enshrouded the farcical crusaders we have... April 16, 2003 Preemptive medicine Among the many ways America is exceptional is this: Average citizens living in the heartland often carry more wisdom in their guts than the elites living in the intellectual capitals hold in thei... April 9, 2003 Let America Be America the Liberator Again! By Stephen Schwartz Iraq is free. The dictatorship has fallen. The process that began with the end of Marcos, the fall of the Berlin wall, and other democratic victories has reached the... April 8, 2003 You call this liberation? My phone rang this morning before 6 A.M. It was a CBS News producer. “I’m sorry to wake you,” she said. “But we have some extraordinary pictures coming in and we wondered... April 8, 2003 Hitler, Elvis, Saddam What if we never find out for certain whether Saddam Hussein is dead or alive? What if - Hitler-like - Saddam has now vanished, with most of the world presumi... April 6, 2003 Oil for Food, Money for Kofi IT'S HUGE, OPAQUE, PERVERSE, run by the United Nations, and about the last thing a postwar Iraq will need. But after a short pause, the Oil-for-Food program is with us once again, revived la... April 6, 2003 U.N.Reliable – U.N. Investigations Focus on Process, not Substance "Cover-up" may sound farfetched, given the number of hearings and investigations now zeroing in on the United Nations Oil-for-Food scandal. The Iraq Governing Council began its own inquiry back i... April 3, 2003 U.N. Go Home By Stephen Schwartz THE WAR FOR IRAQ'S LIBERATION began on March19. The fourth anniversary of the NATO intervention in Kosovo was March24. Kosovar Albanians, a majority of whom are... April 2, 2003 True Left Versus the Lunatic Fringe By Norah Vincent The left is not dead. It isn't dying. It hasn't lost its moral mind. In fact, after nearly a decade of decline and... April 1, 2003 Beneath the Surface By Terry M. Neal As the mainstream media obsess over the operational details of the war in Iraq, something ominous is brewing in lands beyond that does not portend well for the United St... April 1, 2003 How Goes the War? No one promised you a rose garden. Where did you get the idea that Iraq would be a cakewalk? Who told you that Saddam Hussein's regime would fall like a house of cards?... March 31, 2003 Progress in Iraq Opponents of the use of force to remove Saddam Hussein are now criticizing the campaign's progress. Anti-war activists and a number of European and Arab leaders continue to call on the United States to withdraw and leave Saddam in power. Meanwhile, Arab media such as al-Jazeera portray the allied forces in Iraq as “invaders.” It is worth highlighting a few key points to put the war in Iraq in perspective. March 31, 2003 The Saddam No-Show Well, one thing’s for certain: Saddam Hussein has not hired David Frum and Peggy Noonan as speechwriters. After Iraqi state television announced “Saddam to Address Nation Tue... March 31, 2003 Iraq belongs to Iraqis By Frank Gaffney It has been clear for many months that the wild card in any campaign to liberate Iraq would be not the quality of American military might or the malevolence of Saddam Hu... March 30, 2003 Mugged by Surreality By Stephen Schwartz FRANCE HAS ALWAYS BEEN a country with a divided soul: on one side, a record of humanistic Enlightenment philosophy and modern art unrivalled by any other nation; on t... March 26, 2003 Wahhabism in the War By Stephen Schwartz ON THE IRAQI WAR FRONT, Sunday, March 23 was a blood-red day for the terrorist Wahhabi movement, funded by "our Saudi allies" and aiming at control over world Islam.... March 25, 2003 It’s Not Unilateralism A political cartoon in Sunday's Washington Post shows the word "unilateralism" written in sand with Uncle Sam asking: "Do you think this would make a good foundation" for U.S. foreign policy... March 25, 2003 Brazile Says Her Party Must Support Troops By Donald Lambro Democratic strategist Donna Brazile says she backs President Bush's war to overthrow Saddam Hussein and wants her party's leaders to project a stronger message... March 24, 2003 Liberating Iraq; Will the people of Baghdad bask in freedom after the war? By Dr. Walid Phares After the amazing technological display of "shock and awe" in Baghdad, which destroyed Saddam's palaces and ministries, a second awe is brewing. While the first... March 23, 2003 Fear Not the Shias By Stephen Schwartz Sheikh Fadhel Al-Sahlani, an Iraqi American and president of the largest Shia Muslim congregation in North America, speaks perfect English. He sits with quiet dignity... March 19, 2003 Interview with Stephen Schwartz By Katie Bacon What misunderstandings about Islam do you most want to correct with this book? First, I want Westerners to get over their fears. Second, I want to correct the mis... March 19, 2003 The War is Justified by Saddam’s Evil…It Will Give Iraq a Better Future By Richard Chesnoff There's a lot of hand-wringing over what happens to Iraq after Saddam Hussein is ousted, which he will be very shortly, now that the war has begun.... March 18, 2003 UNdone Five things that grownups should no longer believe in: Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, Tinker Bell, the United Nations and the "international community." Let&#0...

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