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March 16, 2010 Memo to Baroness Ashton: Embrace Israel On the eve of her departure for the Middle East, Baroness Catherine Ashton, Europe's new foreign policy czar, reaffirmed the European Union's long-standing refusal to upgrade its relati... March 16, 2010 Iran Took A Hit In Iraq, But Will Obama Profit? The emerging picture from last week’s parliamentary elections in Iraq points to the return of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to office. Preliminary results also suggest that Iran’s al... March 16, 2010 Hope And Change In Iraq In Iraq we are now where we should have been in 2005 if the Sunni Arab community had not staged a bloody revanchist insurrection. The parliamentary elections on March 7 gave us a good snapshot of... March 16, 2010 Obama Fans Flames In Israel After a diplomatic crisis last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been working to bring calm to the region, while U.S. President Barack Obama inexplicably appears to be trying to... March 16, 2010 The Real Terror War Is On The Internet Terrorists and rogue states are moving their battle to the Internet in a virtual war against liberal democracy. For too long, the United States and its allies have ignored the incitement and viol... March 12, 2010 Opposing view: ‘No right to counsel’ It is absurd for critics of Keep America Safe to proclaim an American legal tradition of representing alien enemy combatants. There is none. To mask this inconvenient fact, critics speak in gobbl... March 12, 2010 The Next Wave of Jihadists The arrest of “JihadJane,” aka Colleen Renee LaRose, a blond-haired, blue-eyed, 46-year-old American, ought to make us reflect on a major ingredient in contemporary jihadism: We... March 11, 2010 Evil As Usual Movies and television teach us that evil comes draped in drama, set to a sinister sound track, often with lots of visible gore. But all too often, especially in matters of tyranny, evil appears i... March 11, 2010 The Nightmare No One In America Sees Coming Ever heard of Electromagnetic pulse, or EMP? Probably not, unless you’re a nuclear weapons expert. In the 1950's, At the dawn of the nuclear age, most weapons analysts f... March 10, 2010 No Peace While World War Rages Israel’s American supporters spend a lot of energy trying to convince people that Israelis want peace, are working for peace and are prepared to sacrifice for peace. All that’s true b... March 9, 2010 Why The al-Qaeda Seven Matter My flight had been delayed, so I arrived late to a 2004 academic conference, a law school gab-fest exploring legal issues in the War on Terror. The professor giving the keynote address was well i... March 9, 2010 Who Is Leading On US-Mideast Policy? In the past week, a new element was introduced into the unfolding and cacophonous saga of the Obama administration’s new Syria policy, namely the appearance of Senator John Kerry.... March 8, 2010 FDD Welcomes Reports that Two Large Gasoline Suppliers to Iran Bow Out of Market Press Release March 8, 2010 CONTACT: Noah Chestnut 202-390-2251 nchestnut@defenddemocracy.org Bill McCarthy 202-207-0183 bill@defenddemocracy.org FDD... March 5, 2010 Scion Of Hamas Meet Mosab Hassan Yousef, a genuine Palestinian freedom fighter. He was raised to become a leader of the terrorist group Hamas--strict Muslims dedicated to the destruction of Israel. But the horr... March 2, 2010 $150 Million for Yemeni ‘Encouragement’ ''Yemen's willingness... to confront the serious threat al Qaeda poses to the nation's stability has been inconsistent in the past, but our recent intensive engagement appears... March 2, 2010 Why Does Obama Refuse to Lead in Iraq? Last week, General Raymond Odierno, the commander of American forces in Iraq, made statements that refocused attention on the strategic importance of Iraq for US regional interests. Odierno frame... March 2, 2010 Why France Is Right About the Burqa In his 2009 Cairo address to the Muslim world, U.S. President Barack Obama mentioned no fewer than three times the issue of the headscarf, or hijab. Each time, his purpose was to stress “th... February 26, 2010 Ghana’s Dubious New Partner Over the last decade the United States has successfully transformed its foreign aid efforts. Dollars aren't simply being delivered to corrupt regimes, helping keep them in power with nothing... February 25, 2010 How to Stifle Speech There's an old Soviet joke in which an American tells a Russian: "In my country we have freedom of speech. I can stand in front of the White House and yell, ‘Nixon is an idiot!' a... February 25, 2010 Video Killer Thriller In Dubai Rarely has Big Brother been so generous with his video clips. Last week Dubai authorities released surveillance camera footage of 11 suspects wanted for the assassination of a top Hamas terrorist... February 25, 2010 Congressional Democrats Take Aim at Interrogators Co-Authored with Stephen F. Hayes Update: A press release from Pete Hoekstra's office indicates that the House bill has been pulled because of opposition to the pr... February 24, 2010 Smart Sanctions Can Work Against Iran After a fraudulent election and its brutal aftermath, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his junta must now be persuaded that their pursuit of nuclear weapons will be unbearably costly.... February 24, 2010 We’ve Been Talking to Iran for 30 Years The Obama administration's talks with Iran-set to take place tomorrow in Geneva-are accompanied by an almost universally accepted misconception: that previous American administrations refused to ne... February 24, 2010 Ahmadinejad Personally Recruited Sanctions Buster During New York Trip, Court Documents Show For the fifth time in five years, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is descending on New York to speak at the September opening of the United Nations General Assembly. His previous visits have s... February 24, 2010 Why Iran Could Be Obama’s Defining Moment President Obama has just been presented with what could be the defining moment of his presidency and perhaps a defining moment in world history. On the eve of his speech calling on the nations of t... February 24, 2010 Can Sanctions “Cripple” Iran? In 1981, Israeli leaders sent bombers to destroy Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor at Osirak. Rafael Eitan, then Israel's Army Chief of Staff, is said to have explained the motivation succinctly: "T... February 24, 2010 Time for a Hail Mary On Iran Diplomacy without leverage isn't negotiating, it's begging. And with Iran standing at the threshold of nuclear weapons, begging is NOT the right strategy. Iran's nuclear game is in the final... February 24, 2010 Using Stronger Sanctions to Increase Negotiating Leverage With Iran Six days after his inauguration, President Barack Obama declared that "if countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us." Over the 10 months since... February 24, 2010 Out of Gas: Why Sanctions on Iran Are Still the Best Option Following the passage of the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act in the U.S. House of Representatives today, it's worth considering the following facts... February 24, 2010 Iran’s Global Bedfellows If you listen to U.S. officialdom, Iran is a pariah, cast out by the world community for its sanctions-violating, nuclear-wannabe ways. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has just warned Latin Amer... February 24, 2010 Terror Finance and the Transatlantic Relationship By kind invitation of Ben Wallace MP, the Henry Jackson Society was pleased to be able to host a discussion with Jonathan Schanzer, a former counterterrorism analyst for the Office of Intellig... February 24, 2010 The Sanctions on Iran Are Working After months of fruitless efforts to engage the regime in Tehran, and a raging Washington debate about "targeted" versus "broad-based" sanctions, or "smart sanctions" vs. "crippling sanctions," B... February 24, 2010 Iran, Beacon of Liberty? On Thursday, the birthday of the Islamic Republic of Iran, we will see whether the democratic opposition movement has been driven underground by the increasingly brutal harassment from the supreme... February 24, 2010 The Struggle for Iran Supreme leader Ali Khamenei had a good day on February 11. If the pro-democracy Green movement had managed to send hundreds of thousands of demonstrators once again onto Tehran's streets, hi... February 24, 2010 Hitting The Mullahs At Their Pumps Support for sanctions against Iran's energy sector is gaining momentum in Washington as a means to confront Tehran's nuclear ambitions, its human-rights abuses and its support for terro... February 24, 2010 The Case for Gasoline Sanctions on Iran Are gasoline sanctions against Iran a bad idea? President Barack Obama appears to think so, despite endorsing the idea twice during his election campaign. Although the administration wants to use... February 24, 2010 Najibullah Zazi: Genome of the Homegrown Jihadist Najibullah Zazi is not just an "isolated extremist" caught in September 2009 while crossing a New York bridge with plans to bomb few tunnels -- end of the story. Zazi's "jihad" story is way... February 24, 2010 Barack Obama Can Still Avoid The Syria Trap The Obama administration last week made a major diplomatic opening to Syria. It dispatched Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns to Damascus for talks, thereby elevating the... February 20, 2010 A Defense of Rashad Hussain As Fox News notes, President Obama's... February 20, 2010 Mali, A New Haven For Al Qaeda PARIS, France - The Sahel - this vast semi-arid region of North Africa south of the Sahara desert - is viewed by some experts as a "second Afghanistan." This might be a stretch, but it is true th... February 18, 2010 Leadership vs. Leaderless Resistance: The Militant White Separatist Movement’s Operating Model Co-authored by Madeleine Gruen White separatism today bears little resemblance to the movement a decade ago. At that time, the movement could have been described as inhabiting the furthe... February 18, 2010 Who’s Losing Iraq? Robert Dreyfus, a journalist of the left with whom I seldom agree, writes for The Nation, a publication of the far left that usually makes my eyes roll. But in... February 18, 2010 Pandering To The Islamic Conference Controversy is swirling around President Barack Obama's choice of a young American Muslim lawyer, Rashad Hussain, to serve as his special envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference.... February 18, 2010 Shi’a in Senegal: Iran’s Growing Reach into Africa As the Iranian regime celebrated its 31st birthday last week, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad first ordered and then boasted that the nuclear plant at Natanz had successfully enriched uranium to 19... February 18, 2010 Defeating Islamists at the Ballot A dilemma for Washington is that whenever the United States pushes for elections in the Middle East and Muslim countries, Islamist parties often per-form well—better than liberal, nationali... February 17, 2010 Assad On Top Of The World Five years ago, Rafik al-Hariri - the billionaire Lebanese businessman-turned-politician who was prime minister on and off until September 2004 when he joined the opposition to Syria - was murder... February 16, 2010 How Syria Benefits From The Axis of Proliferation Two weeks ago, a report appeared on the Japanese news site Nikkei quoting Western intelligence sources... February 16, 2010 The Massacre at Fort Hood Report #24 in the "Target: America" Series Overview At approximately 1:30 pm CT on November 5, 2009, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, opened fire on the So... February 16, 2010 Our Last Chance to Get It Right In Afghanistan After eight years the war in Afghanistan is finally getting serious. In December 2001, just three months after the attack on the World Trade Center, we had destroyed 95 percent of Al Qaeda. Sadly... February 11, 2010 Iran’s Unhappy Anniversary I was present at the creation - to borrow a phrase from Dean Acheson, Secretary of State to President Truman. Acheson, of course, was speaking of the origins of the Cold War. I am referring to th...

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