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February 4, 2011 U.S. Senators Demand that Germany Close Iran EIH Bank U.S. frustration with German chancellor Angela Merkel and her foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, seems to have reached a breaking point this week. Germany's recalcitrant position about shutting d... February 4, 2011 Three Qualities That Made Reagan Great During my nine years in the White House, I had the good fortune to work for three presidents—Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and, for the last four, Ronald Reagan, whom I served as national secu... February 4, 2011 Former Taliban Commander Dies at Gitmo A former Taliban commander died Tuesday evening at Guantanamo after suffering an apparent heart attack or similar ailment. US Southern Command released a statement on Thursday explaining that the... February 3, 2011 Will Cairo be Berlin in 1989 or Tehran in 1979? The popular uprising in Egypt invites a variety of historical comparisons. It could end up like Bucharest in 1989 — cosmetic change in the leadership that subsequently resulted in violent o... February 2, 2011 Mubarak v. the Brotherhood It is simply delirious to suggest that we can work with the Muslim Brotherhood, that the Brotherhood has renounced violence, or that a Brotherhood-led government will ultimately be better f... February 2, 2011 The Problem of the Friendly Tyrant We’ve had many alliances with friendly tyrants, from Stalin to Papa Doc, from Mubarak to Pinochet, from the shah to the Saudi royal family. It’s not an easy embr... February 1, 2011 El Baradei and the Al Qaqaa Affair I’d all but forgotten this — but Powerline remembered: El Baradei achieved his greatest renown in connection with the pre-war weapons inspections in Iraq, which he hea... February 1, 2011 How Far Will Egypt Tumult Spread? Immediately after the fall of Tunisia's 23-year dictator, Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali, analysts warned of a domino effect across the Arab world. Would-be democrats in other Arab countries reason... February 1, 2011 Mubarak won’t run again — what’s the effect? Hosni Mubarak's announcement sparked immediate outrage from the Egyptian protestors, who have stated repeatedly over the last several days that they seek nothing less than his ouster.... February 1, 2011 Somalia in Need of New Approach Two Decades after State Collapse Last week marked the twentieth anniversary of the night when Mohamed Siyad Barre, president of the last entity that could plausibly be described as the government of Somalia, fled Mogadishu in hi... February 1, 2011 The Answer to Egypt’s Problems? President Mubarak’s government may soon collapse. Popular support for him has evaporated, and while the Obama administration has declined to officially take sides in the Egyptian protests,... February 1, 2011 Italian Court Convicts Former Gitmo Detainee of Terrorism Charges A former Guantanamo detainee transferred to Italy in late 2009 was convicted of terrorism-related charges on Monday. Mohamed Ben Riadh Nasri, who is originally from Tunisia, was convicted "of cri... January 31, 2011 What Could Be Worse Than ElBaradei? Jay could not be more correct that Mohammed ElBaradei is a menace. He is more responsible than any non-Iranian for the progress the mullahs have made on their nuke program (with dishonorabl... January 31, 2011 Diplomat Slams German-Iranian Trade Ahead of Merkel Trip BERLIN – Emmanuel Nahshon, the deputy chief of mission for the Israeli Embassy, criticized what he said was the planned promotion of German-Iranian trade at a conference on exports to Iran to be... January 31, 2011 Ahmadinejad Says Homosexuality Goes ‘Against Human Spirit’ BERLIN – President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is continuing to vilify homosexuals, according to the Islamic Republic's statecontrolled ILNA news agency. "They asked me [at Columbia University in... January 31, 2011 Steel Deal Reveals Pawlenty’s Priorities on Security, Jobs If former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty decides, as expected, to run for president in 2012, he likely will talk about a unique national security qualification from 2007 in which he nudged an Indian c... January 31, 2011 Who Stands With Iran’s Opposition? PARIS — Excruciating new problems never nullify the old ones. In the case of Iran's potential nuclear threat, Egypt's gathering implosion — joined by some new elements of concern — is only mo... January 31, 2011 Fear the Muslim Brotherhood At the Daily Beast, Bruce Riedel has posted an essay called “Don’t fear Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood,” the classic, conventional-wisdom response to the crisis in Egypt. The... January 31, 2011 Watch the Islamists An estimated three dozen Islamist militants reportedly escaped from an Egyptian prison on Sunday amid the chaos that has enveloped the country. This did little to quiet the raging debate over the... January 30, 2011 What Would a Post-Mubarak Egypt Look Like? The road to Egypt's future forks in three different directions. Which exit the Egyptian people take is still anyone's guess. The first exit is effectively a U-turn back t... January 30, 2011 Egypt: Please, Not ElBaradei Freedom, justice, and prosperity for Egypt are devoutly to be wished. As is abundantly clear by now, the big question for the genuine democrats among the demonstrators, and a big question for the... January 30, 2011 Cancer, Carter and Obama There are some eery similarities between Egypt 2011 and Iran 1979, and some of them are unfortunately about American leadership. There are some big differences, too, but for the moment let&... January 29, 2011 Untangling Ghailani In Manhattan on Tuesday, Judge Lewis Kaplan gave al-Qaeda terrorist Ahmed Ghailani a sentence of life imprisonment after his conviction on a single count of conspiring to bomb American embassies... January 28, 2011 The Muslim Brotherhood is No Friend Writing for the Daily Beast, Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer and adviser to the Obama administration, argues that the U.S. can coexist with a Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Egypt. The Obam... January 28, 2011 Egypt: Revolution? By Whom? For What? As I’ve remarked in the past–but you can’t say the truth too often, right? — nobody knows what a revolution looks like. And in fact that last clause may be very misl... January 28, 2011 Iran, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Revolution "I herewith proclaim to those (Western leaders) who still do not want to see the realities that the political axis of the new Middle East will soon be Islamic rulership and a democracy base... January 28, 2011 Will Obama back Middle East Democracy Movements? President Barack Obama campaigned as the polar opposite of his predecessor, George W. Bush, heralding the end of the Bush Doctrine, in which Arab political reform played a central role. Upo... January 28, 2011 Democracy Is Calling in Egypt — Can Obama Hear It? "We do big things," President Barack Obama said of Americans in his State of the Union address Tuesday night. But as he presented his presidential laundry list of domestic policy ideas, big thing... January 28, 2011 Tony Blair: To Defeat al Qaeda We Must Also Defeat Iran “How do you deal with al Qaeda?” former British Prime Minister Tony Blair asked rhetorically during a public hearing in London earlier this month. Mr. Blair quickly answered his own q... January 28, 2011 The Importance of Bahrain Authored by Steven Sotloff Another round of talks and another failure to find a breakthrough over Iran’s nuclear programme. Despite it being the most pressing crisis facin... January 28, 2011 Democracy Will Prevail in Egypt and Across the Middle East Democracy has been the dominant form of political organization in Canada and other English-speaking countries for so long that we often forget just how historically unusual it is. Until the estab... January 27, 2011 Mikati’s Probationary Period The reactions from Washington, Paris and Riyadh following Najib Mikati’s designation as prime minister suggest that we are now in a watchful, wait-and-see period. Everyone is keeping a clos... January 27, 2011 Egypt’s Day of Anger The aftershocks of Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution continue to reverberate across the Arab world. On January 25, Egyptians began an unprecedented revolt against poverty, corruption and thirty... January 26, 2011 The New York Times Goes to (Spy) War The New York Times has been amusing itself — for the second time in as many years — at the expense of Duane “Dewey” Clarridge, a retired CIA Operations Off... January 26, 2011 The Guardian Wants Its Two-State Solution Back. Beware. When the Guardian launched its “Palestine Papers” on Sunday, the sensational leak was accompanied by an editorial, which was sensationally titled “Pleading for a fig leaf&... January 26, 2011 Swiss Adopt EU Sanctions on Teheran BERLIN – Switzerland will fall into line with European Union sanctions targeting Iran's energy, nuclear proliferation and weapons sectors, its government said last week. "Bundesrat gives u... January 25, 2011 How the Guardian Helped Kill the Peace Process As Alana noted yesterday, the extent of Palestinian concessions during peace talks, once made public, has seriously damaged PA leaders — and the State Department has weighed, noting that th... January 25, 2011 Iran Talks and Repetitive Motion Disorder Berlin — The nuclear negotiations between Iran’s regime and the Obama administration, including U.S. global partners Russia, France, China, the United Kingdom, and Germany, have... January 24, 2011 The Guardian’s Spin on the Palestine Papers If I may highlight one more thing regarding Noah Pollak’s excellent take-down of the “Palestine Papers” that the Guardian and Al Jazeera leaked to the public over the weekend, t... January 24, 2011 Mukasey Must Reading Two things you really ought to read. First, in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal, former attorney general Michael Mukasey reviewed two books that analyze U.S. national security... January 24, 2011 As Tunisia’s Army Quells Chaos, Will It Hinder Democracy? The fear and chaos that follows the fall of the Tunisian dictator Zine El Abedine Ben Ali on January 14 raises uncertainty about the country's future. Already, it can be said that Tunisia wi... January 24, 2011 Islam and the State of the Union The state of our union is . . . denial — at least when it comes to Islam.” I’m not holding my breath waiting for President Obama, as denier-in-chief, to make that prono... January 23, 2011 No Gitmo for Julian Assange, State Department Says State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley wrote the following on his Twitter page early this morning: The claim by the lawyer for #JulianAssange that his client could g... January 23, 2011 In Istanbul, Nuclear Talks with Iran Yield No Progress WASHINGTON – Western negotiators expressed deep disappointment on Saturday after talks with Iran ended without yielding progress or even paving the way for another round of negotiations. "... January 23, 2011 China Renews Iran Oil Deal with Steady Volume’ BEIJING: China, the world's largest buyer of Iranian crude oil, has renewed its annual import pacts for 2011, keeping volumes steady at some 460,000 barrels per day (bpd), two sources told Reuters.... January 22, 2011 Review — The Kingdom: Saudi Arabia and the Challenge of the 21st Century Drawing from articles that appeared on the now-defunct SaudiDebate.com website in 2006 and 2007, journalist Mark Huband and PhD student Joshua Craze have assembled a poignant portrayal of Saudi p... January 21, 2011 Why in the World Would We Want to Support the MEK? According to Fox News, a group of smart, experienced people speaking at a panel in Washington yesterday had two things to say about U.S. policy toward Iran: Abandon all hope in negotiation... January 21, 2011 Tony Blair on Iran and Al Qaeda For the second time in less than a year, former British prime minister Tony Blair testified before the Iraq Inquiry today. The Inquiry is investigating the circumstances that led up to the... January 21, 2011 “Islamophobia” If you haven’t discovered him yet, you should start paying attention to Pascal Bruckner, a French philosopher deeply involved in our current struggles. His recent book... January 21, 2011 Le Pen’s National Front and the Anti-Zionist Party Marine Le Pen took over the party leadership of the xenophobic, far-right National Front Party this week. The Wall Street Journal noted that “Ms. Le Pen on Sunday became the party’s s...

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