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May 24, 2007 U.N.’s Reading List for N. Korea Not only has the United Nations been caught funneling cash to the rogue regime of North Korea's Kim Jong Il, but it's now emerging that the U.N. Development Program was ordering up book... May 24, 2007 Prisoner of Her Desires IN the United States and in Europe, there is a widespread belief that the Bush administration has failed to engage Iran diplomatically. Among the advisers to the Iraq Study Group, of which I was... May 23, 2007 The Turkish Model Why aren’t more moderate Muslims protesting against Islamism? Actually, hundreds of thousands have been doing exactly that -- marching in the streets of Turkey’s major cities to insis... May 23, 2007 Smokin’ on Somalia Last week, my colleague at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), Andrew McCarthy; the former Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York who led the pros... May 23, 2007 Things Fall Apart, Again Perhaps the single most surprising, and enchanting, thing about Lebanon is the stillness of the place. High above Beirut on Mount Lebanon, signs at the Monastery of Saint Maron-Anaya admonish vis... May 23, 2007 El Modelo Turco ¿Por qué no hay más musulmanes moderados protestando contra el islamismo? En realidad, cientos de miles lo han estado haciendo – desfilando por las calles de las princi... May 22, 2007 Preoccupied with Democracy in Iraq Kudos to former Senator Bob Kerrey. The Nebraska Democrat has written a stirring opinion piece i... May 18, 2007 Crying Wolfowitz For two of Paul Wolfowitz's most prominent critics, Mark Malloch Brown and Ad Melkert, the war over the World Bank presidency could not have come at a better time. Whatever else the ousting... May 16, 2007 Federal Judge Intrudes Upon Executive Authority to Designate Terrorist Organizations In an epic litigation already immensely damaging to government’s anti-terrorism arsenal, a California federal court has yet again invalidated a law that bars private individuals from... May 16, 2007 Vulnerability of Nigerian Oil Infrastructure Threatens U.S. Interests Last Friday, oil prices climbed toward $67.00 a barrel as supply disruptions in Nigeria compounded concerns about insufficient gasoline inventory levels in the United States; which have been decl... May 16, 2007 Brits Bash Bolton To understand why the Bush administration has become so unpopular in the United Kingdom, one needn’t look much further than the utterly misleading headline that screamed across Wednesday&rs... May 15, 2007 Take the Lute Maybe there really is a newsworthy story in the appointment of General Lute as special assistant to the President for Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet the story is both more mundane and more interesting... May 12, 2007 Call It the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Dictatorships With Zimbabwe elected Friday to chair the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, we now have the latest poster-child for the usual U.N. Orwellian abuse of the noble mandate, glorio... May 10, 2007 Hamas’s Murderous “Mickey Mouse” Broadcast Globally by Three Satellite Providers With terrorist group Hamas refusing to back down from its use of a Mickey Mouse-like character who teaches children to hate and murder, the Coalition Against Terrorist Media (CATM), a project of... May 10, 2007 Additional Sparks Fly in the Horn of Africa A little less than year ago, I appeared before a joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations and the Subcommittee on International Terrorism and... May 10, 2007 A New French Resistance The electoral victory by Nicolas Sarkozy is the product of the French public's rejection of a decay eroding the foundations of the Fifth Republic since its inception in 1958. The country&#03... May 10, 2007 Know Thy Enemies SOMETIMES WHAT WE DON'T KNOW can indeed hurt us. This was the case in 2006, when reporters noticed significant fighting between Iraqi insurgent factions. This confused journalists and govern... May 9, 2007 Lock and Load Your Portfolio What can you, an average citizen, do to help defend America against terrorists sworn to our destruction? How about not investing in them? A campaign to cut off such investments is gainin... May 9, 2007 No Better Friend? AS THE DEBATE HEATS UP about whether the United States should set a deadline for withdrawal from Iraq, little attention has focused on the effect such a move would have on America's allies i... May 9, 2007 Prepárese a Luchar con su Cartera de Inversiones ¿Qué es lo que Ud., un ciudadano promedio, puede hacer para ayudar a que Estados Unidos se defienda de los terroristas que han jurado destruirnos? Hay... May 9, 2007 French Resistance to Jihadism When I was leaving Paris at the end of October 2005 after a visit to France, I had two things in mind: First, I had seen the beginning of the urban intifada, which would soon engulf about two hun... May 8, 2007 Fort Dix Jihad: The Media Misses the Point The mainstream media is atwitter this morning over the six Muslim men arrested in south Jersey for conspiring “to kill as many soldiers as possible” at the Fort Dix U.S. army base. Th... May 7, 2007 Bush Plummets…As He Wins the Argument Polls taken through Iraq’s thick prism reflect increasing public disenchantment with the Bush presidency. The economy hums and the stock market climbs daily to heights previously unknown, b... May 5, 2007 The Return of Moral Equivalence “...the argument artfully directs attention away from an obvious evil—the catastrophic humanitarian disaster in Darfur...—in order to refocus it on a series of less obvious supp... May 3, 2007 Global Air Carrier Suspended in U.N. Procurement Investigation Co-Authored with George Russell The grinding investigation of scandal in the United Nations’ multi-billion-dollar procurement department — an inquiry that has gone o... May 2, 2007 Too Many Micromanagers In January, Gen. David Petraeus was unanimously confirmed by the Senate as the top American commander in Iraq. He and his troops are now on the battlefield pursuing a dramatically different strat... May 2, 2007 Nigeria Teeters Back from the Brink — For Now Two weeks ago in this column space I observed that free, fair, and credible elections in Nigeria "would lead to the inauguration of a legitimate political order;[which] would not only consolidate... May 2, 2007 Saving the World For their May/June issue, the editors of Foreign Policy magazine asked 21 “leading thinkers” to propose ideas to “save the world” -- or, failing that, to come up with &ldq... May 2, 2007 Salvemos al mundo: Lo que piensan los profundos pensadores Para su edición de mayo/junio, los editores de la revista Foreign Policy (Política Exterior) preguntaron a 21 “pensadores”de vanguardia” que propusieran ideas para... May 2, 2007 The Uncertainty Dilemma In Voltaire’s Micromegas, a gigantic visitor from another planet asks a sailor why humans bicker so much. “Because we agree on the two or three things we understand,” explains t... May 1, 2007 Symposium: Can This Washington Be Saved? Can This War? President Bush had no choice but to veto a bill that would have undermined an American commander on the battlefield, a bill that would have legislated a consequential American defeat. Th... April 30, 2007 Mad TV Testifying under oath recently, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice misled Congress in her strong defense of Al-Hurra, the taxpayer financed Arab TV network. It was unwitting, though. She herself... April 30, 2007 Making Sense of a Senseless War Since most of the coverage on the Sierra Leonean war has focused on the brutal outbursts of violence — exemplified by the quasi-voyeuristic broadcast media fixation on the ‘rebel hand... April 29, 2007 Tenet Does 60 Minutes Hawking his new book, At the Eye of the Storm, former CIA Director George Tenet bared his soul Sunday night to Scott Pelley of the CBS news magazine, 60 Minutes. Some preliminary thoughts about h... April 26, 2007 Middle East Strongmen, Ancient and Modern The war in Iraq has exposed fissures in the structure of that modern Middle Eastern state earlier camouflaged by Arab nationalism and Saddam's brutal rule. While Arab leaders speak of unity,... April 26, 2007 Last Lap in Iraq When President Truman sent General Matthew Ridgeway to replace Douglas MacArthur, a surprise Chinese offensive had pushed American forces all the way back to the starting line of the Korean War.... April 25, 2007 New Fronts Call for New Capacities As a longtime advocate for the creation of a unified regional combatant command for Africa; an idea for which, in a column published in this very space last year, I argued "the time is now"; I wa... April 25, 2007 Gacetilleros o portavoces? A los periodistas por lo general se les acusa de parcialidad. Raras son las veces que se aplican a sí mismos esa imputación. Pero los 35.000 miembros del Sindicato Nacional de Perio... April 25, 2007 Hacks or Flacks? Journalists are often accused of bias. Rarely do journalists level that charge against themselves. But the 35,000 members of Britain's National Union of Journalists (NUJ) have done exactly t... April 24, 2007 Gonzales and McCain-Feingold Throughout her tumultuous tenure as attorney general, Janet Reno could always rely on Democrats and liberals to circle the wagons when critics ripped her judgment, competence, and forthrightness.... April 24, 2007 Let Them Eat Nothing When the Soviet system imploded in 1991, there was great concern that in the immediate aftermath the populations of post-communist nations, suddenly cut loose from Big Brother, might starve. They... April 23, 2007 Spinning the Fighting in South Waziristan THE PAKISTANI GOVERNMENT has entered into two agreements in the past seven months that promise to destabilize Afghanistan and provide a haven for terrorists to plan and train for catastrophic att... April 23, 2007 Nigeria: Crisis of Legitimacy Nigeria's Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Monday that Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, the candidate of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP), the winner in last... April 20, 2007 Losing the War in Congress, Not in Iraq A simple statement made by a national legislative leader in Washington this week indicates that a war is being lost, but it is not the war in Iraq. It is the defeat of the War of Ideas taking pla... April 18, 2007 After the Fall: A “Plan B” for Containing the Impact of an Iraqi Collapse Imagine that it’s 2009 and a Democrat is in the White House. He (or she) determines that the U.S. mission in Iraq has failed irretrievably. What happens next? It is not too much of... April 18, 2007 Decision Time in Nigeria Over the course of the last year, this column has regularly chronicled developments in Nigeria; including Islamist activism in the north, evidence of growing connections to international terroris... April 18, 2007 Después de la caída: Un “Plan B” para contener el impacto de un colapso iraquí Imagínese que es el año 2009 y que hay un demócrata en la Casa Blanca. Él (o ella) determinará que la misión americana en Irak ha fracasado irremisibleme... April 16, 2007 Finding the Moderates While the idea of attempting to improve relations between counterterrorism experts and Muslims may sound like a fool's errand, both communities have much to gain from such efforts.... April 16, 2007 Hezbollah’s German Helpers Co-Authored with Alexander Ritzmann Hezbollah arrived in the European Union back in the 1980s, along with refugees from the civil war in Lebanon. Despite its deadly tra... April 12, 2007 Paying Nuclear Tribute to North Korea When does President Bush wake up and smell the debacle cooking at his own State Department under the name of a “denuclearization” deal with North Korea? Thanks to U.S. backflips linke...

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