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July 4, 2005 You Take the High Road The leaders of the world’s major industrialized democracies will gather in Gleneagles, Scotland this week. Russian President Vladimir Putin will be there, too. That Russia does not... July 3, 2005 A Mideastern View of the Fourth of July By: Dr. Walid Phares. Americans understand an intractable portion of the Islamic world opposes America and all she stands for. What many Americans do not know this Fourth of Jul... July 1, 2005 FDD Academic Fellow Sergeant Joseph Skelly Awarded Bronze Star Honored for His Work to Rebuild Iraqi Univer... June 30, 2005 Case Not Dismissed Predictably, many Iraq/Qaeda naysayers are responding to my post-Bush-Iraq-speech piece by citing 9/11 Commission conventional wisdom: that the commission found there was no connection between Sa... June 29, 2005 Spain Says Adios to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television Spain Says Adios to Hezbollah's Al-Manar Television... June 29, 2005 Get Smart There is no such thing as an experienced suicide bomber. This insight seems to have eluded the Central Intelligence Agency. A few days ago a classified CIA report was leaked to the... June 28, 2005 Turtle Bay Tea Party Foreign policy was a side issue in Tuesday’s election. But with crises in the making, from Venezuela to Iran, and points between and beyond, the wider world will be muscling its way into th... June 28, 2005 It’s All About 9/11 President George W. Bush forcefully explained last night — some of us would say finally forcefully explained last night after too long a lull — why our military operations in Iraq are... June 26, 2005 The Greatest Generation My fellow Americans, my parents' generation is known as the Greatest Generation. But it was not because they were the Greatest Generation that they prevailed in World War II. Rather... June 22, 2005 The High Cost of Gaza Housing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced this week that Israeli and Palestinian officials had agreed to demolish more than a thousand Israeli settlers' homes in Gaza. The N... June 22, 2005 Release of Secret Documents Offers Look at Efforts To Stop Corruption A new window has opened into the U.N. oil-for-food scandal, with the release by congressional investigators of formerly secret U.S. documents chronicling some of the efforts by the American and B... June 21, 2005 Peace is Lost if U.S. Gives Nod to Terror Group By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. You could almost hear the deep sigh of relief from the White House yesterday when Israeli leader Ariel Sharon and his Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Ab... June 19, 2005 Mystery of the U.N. Scandal Memo Surrounds Identity of ‘Ka’ One of the mysteries shaping up in the U.N. oil-for-food scandal is, who is "KA"? Those initials appear in the memo that surfaced last week, implicating Secretary-General Annan, apparent... June 19, 2005 Lebanese Elections: The Bottom Line Walid Phares asked me to post his assessment of the Lebanese elections: By sheer numbers, the assessment first: Lebanese Parliament has 128 seats, half Muslims, half Christians.... June 19, 2005 U.N. Family Ties: Is There a Replay of the Kofi and Kojo Annan Scandal? Co-authored by: George Russell. Oil-for-Food is the biggest scandal ever to hit the United Nations, but it is just one of many scandals erupting at the world body – all sy... June 19, 2005 Confirm Bolton By: Newt Gingrich. John Bolton is exactly the right choice for our ambassador to the United Nations at this critical time in our nation’s history. He should be confirmed b... June 19, 2005 Lebanon’s Strange Mix By: Amb. Richard Carlson & Barbara Newman. BEIRUT, Lebanon - The sweeping victory in the third round of the Lebanese parliamentary elections by Gen. Michel... June 17, 2005 Bipartisan Officials Urge Reauthorization of All Expiring Patriot Act Provisions FDD Senior Fellow Andrew McCarthy says group's recommendations are a “fair compromise to uphold civil liberties and fight terrorism”... June 15, 2005 Defeat of Terror, Not Roadmap Diplomacy, Will Bring Peace By: Newt Gingrich. Many observers hold that the death of former Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and the subsequent election of Mahmoud Abbas to lead the Palestinian Authority ha... June 15, 2005 French Revolution; Why the Gallic Grassroots Just Said ‘Non!’ COGNAC, FRANCE - It seems that France, too, has “red states” and “blue states.” Paris and its posh suburbs are blue: They voted for the proposed European Union co... June 14, 2005 Will Anyone Answer? Allowing Libyan tyrant Moammar Gadhafi to make a mockery of U.S. policy is not a good idea, especially not when the Bush administration has been talking Gadhafi up for the past 18 months as one o... June 12, 2005 Pavlov’s Dog and the Patriot Act In weighing whether the Patriot Act should be renewed, the Senate Intelligence Committee is recommending a modest (one might even say, a redundant) expansion of FBI investigative powers. So, as n... June 2, 2005 Claudia Rosett Wins Breindel Award Claudia Rosett Wi... June 1, 2005 What If We Don’t Win? In Iraq, they say, failure is not an option. But it is a possibility. From the start of the intervention, two critical questions have awaited answers: Is there a critical mass of Iraqis... May 31, 2005 Enemies Ignored International terrorism, particularly the variety engaged in by transnational, militant Islamic networks, is the defining national-security problem of the modern era. But was it an avoidable prob... May 31, 2005 Never Forget Unlike last year, there was little controversy this Memorial Day about ABC News's decision to broadcast an honor roll of the American troops who died this past year serving in Iraq and Afgha... May 26, 2005 Busy is the Week that Was By: Amb. Richard Carlson & Barbara Newman. The UN has announced that the Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon is complete. Kofi Annan at the UN seemed uncharacteristically e... May 25, 2005 WLCU President to Discuss the Syrian Withdrawal from Lebanon News Conference... May 25, 2005 France Calls for EU Ban on Hezbollah’s al-Manar Television France... May 25, 2005 Iraq: A View Worth Considering By: Amb. Richard Carlson. Natan Sharansky came by my office for lunch last week. As a reader of Arianna's blog you may not like what he had to say about the invasion of Ira... May 25, 2005 Egyptology Here is Egypt's modern history in a nut shell: In the 1950s and ‘60s, the nation was led by Gamal Abdel Nasser, a socialist revolutionary who intended to unite the Arabic-speaking worl... May 22, 2005 Iraq: A View Worth Considering By: Amb. Richard Carlson. Natan Sharansky came by my office for lunch last week. As a reader of Arianna's blog you may not like what he had to say about the invasio... 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...

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