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October 24, 2006 Is Iraq a Worthy Cause? Even conservatives are now starting to become almost irretrievably saturnine in their pessimism on Iraq. On National Review Online last week, Jonah Goldberg wrote that “the Iraq war was a m... October 23, 2006 The Caliph-Strophic Debate It seems that the US is having a hard time winning the hearts and minds of Arabs and Muslims, but an equally serious problem can be observed in the intellectual circles of America where some have... October 23, 2006 American “Stupidity” and “Arrogance” in Iraq Isn't this just wonderful? The State Department's top spokesman on the Middle East, Alberto Fernandez, has pronounced that American “arrogance” and “stupidity” i... October 20, 2006 The Blind Sheik’s Mistress Legal ethics rules in all fifty states absolutely prevent lawyers from assisting their clients in the commission of criminal acts. Confidentiality and lawyer-client privilege rules have, everywhe... October 20, 2006 Pragmatism Trumps Suicide Judge Richard A. Posner, of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago, is one of America's most prolific intellectuals and legal philosophers. Following the September 11, 2001, attacks, his power... October 20, 2006 In Defense of Liberty Coauthored with Herbert London In 2004, Abdel Rahman al-Rashed, general manager of the Al-Arabiya news channel, courageously wrote, "It is a certain fact that not all Musl... October 18, 2006 Una clase distinta de guerra Los generales prefieren luchan la guerra anterior por una buena razón: La guerra anterior puede ser estudiada y entendida. Por el contrario, en el conflicto del momento parece que nos move... October 18, 2006 A Different Kind of War Generals prefer to fight the last war for a good reason: The last war can be studied and understood. In the current conflict, by contrast, we seem to be wrestling a ghost in a fog. We ca... October 16, 2006 A War, or Un-War? Dear Dr. Pham: In the spirit of constructive debate to advance American foreign policy to navigate "through the shoals of the coming years" and "safely steer the ship of state",... October 16, 2006 Krauthammer, Kennedy & Korea With characteristic sagacity last Friday, Charles Krauthammer invoked President Kennedy's Cuban-missile-crisis strategy as a model for dealing with North Korea's most recent nuclear ant... October 16, 2006 Sentencing Day Arrives for Lynne Stewart The radical attorney Lynne Stewart is scheduled to be sentenced in Manhattan today on her 2005 conviction, after a lengthy trial, for providing material support to terrorism. As pr... October 16, 2006 The New Secretary General On Friday, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon was elected to be the new Secretary-General of the United Nations, by “acclamation” in the General Assembly. The U.S. seemed pleas... October 13, 2006 The Culture of Obstruction Imagine for a moment a public official of the highest order. He was a confidant of the vice president and the president. Entrusted with the most sensitive national defense information, he enjoyed... October 12, 2006 Still at Large: Qadhafi the War Criminal It's hard to have any sympathy for Charles Ghankay Taylor. During his murderous fourteen-year rampage through West Africa, the former Liberian president was responsible - according... October 12, 2006 In Nigeria False Prophets Are Real Problems Last week a judge in Yola in the Nigerian state of Adamawa sentenced Musa Ali Suleiman (aka Musa Makaniki) to death by hanging. As his nom de guerre hints, Musa Makaniki is a mechanic who gave up... October 11, 2006 Breaking China The great 19th century Russian playwright Anton Chekhov said it was a rule of the theatrical stage: If a loaded gun appears in the first act, that gun will be fired before the curtain falls. It&#... October 11, 2006 Ignore a Pyongyang, centre la atención en Pekín El gran dramaturgo ruso del siglo XIX, Anton Chekhov, hablaba de una regla de teatro: Si una pistola cargada aparecía en el primer acto, esa pistola sería disparada antes de que baj... October 11, 2006 Palestinians Invite Disaster, Yet Again Here's one of the Mideast's few sure things: When there's a bad decision to make, Palestinian leadership will make it. Consider the region's latest intelligence buzz.... October 11, 2006 Take Ten: A decade’s worth of analysis. Editor's Note: In the last ten years, how has the world changed, and how has it remained the same? As we mark our tenth anniversary here at National Review Online, we asked a group of commen... October 10, 2006 Too Much Make-Believe In the early years of the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia was effectively cut off from all sources of raw film stock. Luckily for the Soviets, cheap copies of the silent films imported during the wa... October 9, 2006 The Significance of the “Dear Leader” Testing His Nuke The announcement from the official Korea Central News Agency was couched in the communist state's usual blend of solipsistic discourse, hyperbole, and surrealism: The... October 6, 2006 Going South Whatever else can be said of the United Nations, it is remarkably predictable. Later this fall the organization will anoint a successor to Secretary-General Kofi Annan who is due to step down aft... October 6, 2006 After Annan Authored by Velykhan Velshi Kofi Annan's tenure as UN Secretary General will finish at the end of the year. His legacy will be one of scandal and failure. The UN peacekeepi... October 5, 2006 Nigeria at the Crossroads Over the long-term, perhaps no African country is as vital to the strategic interests of the United States as Nigeria. Alas, the country is also a study in contradictions. With some 35.9... October 5, 2006 Guantanamo is Not the Problem To fly into the damp Caribbean heat of this U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is to enter a place of multifaceted myth, a zone that continues to inflame the imagination of the world. And y... October 3, 2006 The New Detainee Law Does Not Deny Habeas Corpus There are innumerable positives in the Military Commissions Act of 2006, the new law on the treatment of enemy combatants that President Bush will soon sign. Among the best is Congress's ref... October 2, 2006 Global Danger from the Dark Continent Co-Authored with W. Thomas Smith, Jr. The African continent - vast, remote, and perhaps strategically unimportant in the minds of many unknowing Americans – is one of the... October 1, 2006 State of Jihad QUESTION: What has changed about "Future Jihad" since the book first appeared? Answer: Between November 2005 and November 2006, very important developments have been taking place on the... October 1, 2006 Myths of War: The Ten Most Widely Believed Distortions About the Global Conflict Now Underway Co-Authored with Alykhan Velshi Ronald Reagan once said: “It’s not that liberals are ignorant, it’s just that they know so much that isn’t true.&rdquo... October 1, 2006 Will the UN Pick Another Crook? Authored by Alykhan Velshi Kofi Annan's tenure as UN Secretary General will finish at the end of the year. His legacy will be one of scandal and failure. The UN peacekeepin... September 30, 2006 Analysis on Zawahiri Tape In its latest video, as-Sahhab TV production featured “Prime Minister” Dr Ayman Zawahiri addressing the Umma on matters of Jihad and aqida (doctrine). Or at least this was the image t... September 28, 2006 The Growth of Militant Islamism in East Africa The few resources in America's global war on terror as have been directed to Sub-Saharan Africa have largely (and not unreasonably) gone to helping build security capacity in the vital asset... September 28, 2006 The New Cold War Behind the spectacle of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez's insults against the West lurks something more sinister than meets the eye. Chávez seeks to lead the Non-Aligned Movem... September 27, 2006 Admit We’re Peaceful… or Else Addressing a packed St. Peter's Square during his weekly general audience last Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI revisited his September 12 lecture to academics at the University of Regensburg. T... September 27, 2006 Admit We’re Peaceful…or Else Last week, speaking to a packed audience in St. Peter's Square, Pope Benedict XVI revisited his September 12 lecture to academics at the University of Regensburg. The pontiff explained that... September 27, 2006 Testimonio a puerta cerrada ante el Comité de Relaciones Internacionales Testimonio a puerta cerrada ante el Comité de Relaciones Internacionales de la Cámara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos. Presidente Royce, Delegado Sherman, est... September 26, 2006 With Fear and Favor An essential American institution is in crisis but the story is not being covered by the mainstream media. That's because the institution in crisis is the mainstream media which appears inca... September 26, 2006 No Iraq War = Easier War on Terror? No Iraq war = easier war on terror? The latest National Intelligence Estimate says the Iraq war is making the war on terror tougher. Democrats pounced on the report and said the U.S. mus... September 26, 2006 Yes, Our Iraq Policy Has Helped al Qaeda Recruit… Another day, another New York Times publication of classified information. Another election cycle, another strategic intelligence-community leak transparently designed to affect th... September 25, 2006 Hamdan and the Sunset of Sovereignty The cacophony over wartime interrogation tactics and military-commission trials obscures a more profound issue: the sunset of national sovereignty itself. The cause of the ruckus, the Su... September 21, 2006 Financing Somalia’s Islamist Warlords Since the fall of the sometime Somali capital of Mogadishu to the armed radicals of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in early June, United States policymakers and analysts have debated not only the... September 20, 2006 What We Can Learn from a Medieval Dialogue Amid all the metaphorical smoke arising from the, alas, very real flames of hatred that some Muslim fanatics have managed to kindle out of Pope Benedict XVI's lecture to academics at the Uni... September 20, 2006 Symposium on United Nations President Bush said so many of the right words. He was so right to address some of those words not to the assembled "excellencies" of the General Assembly, but directly to the people of Iraq, Afg... September 20, 2006 You Have the Right to Remain Silent A number of friends and colleagues (both conservative and liberal) have either quarreled with or expressed alarm about my contention that the 2005 McCain Amendment conferred Miranda rights on ali... September 20, 2006 The Intelligence Mess (Editor's note: This article first appeared in April 2004.) Intelligence-gathering is something of a square peg in the round hole of contemporary political morality. It is about unearthing t... September 20, 2006 Opposing View: Intelligence Comes First The case of Maher Arar, a Canadian Muslim allegedly tortured in Syria after being taken there by the CIA, warrants scrutiny. So, indeed, does the whole practice of rendition, a favorite of the Cl... September 19, 2006 Submit or Die Many commentators have pointed out the apparent hypocrisy: Muslims are outraged by cartoons satirizing Islamic extremism while in Muslim countries Christianity and Judaism are attacked viciously... September 19, 2006 Down on the Farms As we mark the one-month anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, the best that can be said is that ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah terrorists who carved a state... September 15, 2006 The New Juristocracy From the Founding right up until the still-quaking bombshell of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, issued at the end of the Supreme Court's term in late June, the primary imperative of national government... September 14, 2006 West Africa and the Coming Naval Battle in al-Qaeda’s Economic War Against America Despite the unfortunate tendency among many talking heads to oppose "soft power" to "hard power" – usually these days to the detriment of the latter – the truth is that the two aspect...

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