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January 28, 2007 The Border-Patrol Two Deserve Jail “Texans aren’t whiners,” Johnny Sutton told me. Still, forgive him if he sounds a bit frustrated. Sutton is the top federal law-enforcement officer in one of the nation... January 28, 2007 Don’t Let the Left Have It In 1968, many decades after shepherding the U.N. Charter through Senate ratification, former Secretary of State Dean Acheson suggested a new clause for the Sunday service litany: “and from... January 25, 2007 Symposium: Iraq – The Challenge Ahead FP: Bill Cowan, Carlton Sherwood, Jim Woolsey, Ralph Peters and Andy McCarthy, welcome to Frontpage Symposium. I want to get your views on Saddam’s execution,... January 24, 2007 ¿Combustible exento de terror? Ud. no tiene que ser un estratega militar de la talla de Sun Tzu o de Carl von Clausewitz para entender esto : Es una mala idea subvencionar las iniciativas de guerra de su enemigo. Pero cada vez... January 24, 2007 Diversity Can Pave the Road Toward Energy Security You don't have to be a military strategist on the order of Sun Tzu or Carl von Clausewitz to understand this: It is a bad idea to fund your enemy's war effort. But every time w... January 24, 2007 Will the U.N. Development Program Probe Be Ban Ki-Moon’s First Cover-Up? For just one day last week, it looked like Ban, in the first real test of his self-proclaimed mission to “restore trust” at the U.N., had risen above the bureaucratic evasions of his... January 24, 2007 Coping with Humpty Dumpty As I get older, I have increasingly come to appreciate the wisdom that we learn in from our elders in the early years of our earthly lives. Some of those lessons are imparted explicitly in the so... January 23, 2007 Symposium: The President’s State of the Union Address You have to admit: Bush laid out an ambitious agenda for a second-half-of-the-second-term president with abysmal poll numbers facing a Democratic congress that despises him. His agenda i... January 22, 2007 The Pentagon’s Africa Command Authored by David Silverstein The impending announcement that the Department of Defense will create a separate regional command to focus on Africa is a good first step in helpi... January 21, 2007 U.N.’s ‘Cash for Kim’ Scandal: Ban Should Look Next at North Korea, World Food Program Bravo to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations for digging into the doings of the U.N. Development Program (UNDP) in North Korea and uncovering streams of cash flowing via the UNDP to Kim Jong I... January 17, 2007 Practicando windsurf en Guantánamo Hace 5 años este mes, se abrió una instalación americana en la bahía de Guantánamo, Cuba para hospedar a los combatientes más peligrosos capturados en la... January 17, 2007 Somalia May Save the War on Terrorism In my last column in this series, I argued that while “Ethiopia may not have been the ideal intervener in Somalia, better it than no one and perhaps the one thing worse than Ethiopia interv... January 17, 2007 Windsurfing to Guantánamo Five years ago this month, an American facility was opened in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to house the most dangerous combatants captured in the global war against Militant Islamism. To commemora... January 16, 2007 UNder the Law In what surely qualifies as the single-most-promising United Nations reform effort to date, federal prosecutors in New York, jointly with the New York District Attorney, have just announced the i... January 16, 2007 The Pot Calling the Kettle “Interim” In lambasting the Bush administration for politicizing the appointment of the nation’s United States attorneys, Democrats may be on the verge of redefining chutzpah. The campaign i... January 14, 2007 The Stability Dodge When last we noted CBS News, it was trying to topple the Bush administration in the 2004 campaign, courtesy of Dan Rather’s ham-handed document fraud. If you want to indulge a fiction, you... January 12, 2007 Reach Out To Cuba’s People With Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visiting Venezuela today, it might be a good time to consider another "change in course" for U.S. policy. The isolation of Cuba, a legacy of the Cold Wa... January 11, 2007 Getting Iraq to Work The American mission in Iraq must succeed. Our goal--promoting a stable, accountable democracy in the heart of the Middle East--cannot be achieved by purely military means. Iraqis nee... January 11, 2007 Opposing View: Don’t Accept Defeat Opponents of President Bush's plan for salvaging the dire situation in Iraq have every right to speak out. And those in Congress who believe it pointless to do anything other than accept def... January 11, 2007 Resurrecting Somalia As of this week, the United States is directly engaged in Somalia, Ethiopian forces are successfully advancing and Al-Qaeda and Islamic Courts Union (ICU) fighters have been effectively cornered-... January 9, 2007 Symposium: Surge Scoring Clifford D. May There are really only three options: 1) Stay the course. At this point, just about everyone believes the course we have followed for the past year has not worked.... January 9, 2007 El momento de la paz en Oriente Medio: No es ahora Resolver el conflicto árabe-israelí sería algo maravilloso. Pero la realidad nos dice que por más de medio siglo, todos los presidentes americanos han intentado encont... January 9, 2007 A Time for Middle East Peace Resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict would be a wonderful thing. But the reality is that for more than a half century, every American president has attempted to find a magic formula that would bri... January 9, 2007 Don’t Get Too Excited about the President’s Warning to Iran and Syria Supporters of the war on terror — the global war against jihadists as distinguished from its isolated battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan — were surely heartened last night by Presid... January 9, 2007 Religion of Peace? Islam is quintessentially tolerant. Its adherents are hospitable to liberty, equality, and pluralism, the rudiments of modern democracy. Those committing terror in its name are heretics — a... January 8, 2007 9/11 Commission Day A lack of seriousness, the chasm between frivolous campaign rhetoric and real-world governing, and the politicizing of our national security — the one subject always claimed to be above suc... January 8, 2007 Strikes in Somalia On Sunday, a United States Air Force AC-130 gunship launched a strike against what Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman on Tuesday called “principal al-Qaeda leadership” operating in sout... January 4, 2007 Sex Tips From the Marquise de Pompadour Authored by Alykhan Velshi Some study history for knowledge, others to honor their ancestors, but few, I suspect, do so to improve their sex lives. This is most unfortunate, si... January 4, 2007 Sweeping Up in Somalia The reports continue to stream in of the hasty retreat of the militants of Somalia's Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in the face of an unexpectedly heavy offensive by Ethiopian air and land force... January 2, 2007 Ban’s Burden As the new secretary general of the UN, South Korea's Ban Ki-moon faces a choice: style himself as the next self-serving pop star of global diplomacy or dedicate himself more humbly and brav... January 2, 2007 Singing CAIR’s Tune, On Your Dime On a weekend when the Bush administration achieved a new CAIR-friendly low, a prominent Democrat, following the lead of other prominent Democrats, distanced herself very publicly from the unsavor... January 1, 2007 Is The Nation State Threatened? “Is the Nation State Threatened?” This question, though apt, may fail to convey how dire the threat to sovereignty truly is. It might be better to ask, “Is the Nation Stat... December 30, 2006 Gentlemen, Start Your Plug-Ins An oil and security task force of the Council on Foreign Relations recently opined that "[t]he voices that espouse 'energy independence' are doing the nation a disservice by focusing on... December 29, 2006 Justice for Saddam, Precedent for the Future There’s plenty to be miserable about where Iraq is concerned these days. Few still think the sacrifices the U.S. and its partners have made during the war worthwhile; and the world watches... December 29, 2006 In Somalia, An Africa Hawk Rises With most Westerners in the throes of holiday mirth this week, an estimated 20,000 Ethiopian troops deployed to neighboring Somalia went on the offensive against the forces of the Islamic Courts... December 29, 2006 Why We Need More Troops in Iraq I've just spent 10 days traveling in the Middle East and speaking to leaders there, all of which has made one thing clearer to me than ever: While we are naturally focused on Iraq, a larger... December 27, 2006 Diplomacy Theater Last week saw two new episodes in the opera buffa of modern American diplomacy. The Six-Party Talks on North Korea suffered a brief relapse in Beijing (just long enough for the U.S. to get slappe... December 26, 2006 The Dark Fate of Christians Under Palestinian Rule Having failed to bribe the Islamic Republic Iran out of its nuclear ambitions, the State Department is putting on its cheeriest face after Saturday’s Security Council resolution, imposing t... December 26, 2006 Symposium: Best Books of 2006 For my money, the most important book of 2006 was Melanie Phillip's Londonistan. It is a real eye-opene... December 26, 2006 Symposium: Predictions for 2007 Was it Yogi Berra or Casey Stengel who said: “It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future”? Either way, that has never been truer than it is today; the world has... December 26, 2006 Sending the Mullahs to Bed Without Supper Having failed to bribe the Islamic Republic Iran out of its nuclear ambitions, the State Department is putting on its cheeriest face after Saturday’s Security Council resolution, imposing t... December 22, 2006 Nigeria’s Electoral Intrigue It barely registers on inside-the-Beltway policy discussions, but few countries are as vital to the strategic interests of the United States as Nigeria. With some 35.9 billion barrels of proven p... December 21, 2006 The Next Sudanese Conflict Almost all of the attention which policymakers in the West have given to Sudan over the course of the last year has been rightly focused on what even the United Nations describes as "the world&#0... December 20, 2006 Correspondence Course How often have you heard journalists tell politicians they should admit their mistakes rather than equivocate or cover up? So when a major mainstream newspaper makes an error how is it handled?... December 20, 2006 Curso por Correspondencia ¿Con cuánta frecuencia ha oído Ud. a los periodistas diciendo a los políticos que deberían admitir sus errores en vez de dar una respuesta ambigua o de encubrir... December 19, 2006 Mystery Surfaces Over Apartment of Kofi Annan As Secretary-General Annan prepares to leave his post at the United Nations, a mystery is surfacing surrounding his apartment on Roosevelt Island, subsidized by New York taxpayers, which is still... December 18, 2006 Time’s Up This weekend, Time magazine announced that... December 15, 2006 Tis the Season in Darfur As much of the Western world busies itself with merriment in preparation for the celebrations of Chanukah and Christmas, the light is fading rapidly in the scarred vastness of Darfur. In the late... December 14, 2006 Misjudging Charity Authored by Alykhan Velshi & Howard Anglin The charitable reputation of the American people, much remarked in these pages, is well-deserved. Whether it is to earthquake vict... December 14, 2006 Not Being Had by Al-Itihaad The news from the Horn of Africa continues to be worrisome. The recent catastrophic floods that swept through the region have not slowed the advance of the radical Islamists, who in June seized c...

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