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March 16, 2006 Inaction Failed If we learned anything from 9/11 it's that doing nothing while tyrants and terrorists plot to kill Americans is not a viable policy. But that was U.S. policy for more than 25 years.... March 15, 2006 Get Zarqawi For a moment, focus on the present. Right now, there are three reasons the United States needs to be in Iraq. The most important: to fight al-Qaeda, the leader of the global Militant Islamist mov... March 14, 2006 A Muslim Democracy in Peril Authored by Maneeza Hossain Bangladeshis are due at the ballot box in January 2007, in a defining election. Although Bangladesh has a checkered history of transfer of power, dem... March 13, 2006 Old Ties Resurface in New Annan Project at U.N. Coauthored by George Russell NEW YORK — United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has just tabled ostensibly radical proposals for reform, at a proposed cost of mo... March 10, 2006 Sanctimony and Silence I have this simple question that no one seems to want to answer. Thankfully, the five-alarm debacle that was the lu... March 8, 2006 The World Needs English VOA As America becomes increasingly involved in the global war on terrorism, the Bush administration is planning to shut down its worldwide English-language broadcasts on the Voice of America. This i... March 8, 2006 An Unfair Fight? In a conventional war, if one side has tanks, fighter jets, submarines and similar weapons, while the other side does not, who wins? The answer is obvious. In an unconventional war, if o... March 2, 2006 A Russian Ruse By: Ilya Bourtman On March 3, Hamas envoys will arrive in Moscow. Their Russian hosts have prepared a banquet fit for a sultan. Gifts will be abundant. Russia's foreign min... March 1, 2006 Hamas Helper The problem is not that Hamas will not recognize Israel. The problem is that Hamas cannot recognize Israel. Hamas is a terrorist group that has become a political party. More significant... March 1, 2006 Hamas More Don’t We Know? The $8 billion deal to turn over commercial shipping operations at major American ports to Dubai Ports World, a company owned by the United Arab Emirates, continues to stoke controversy. The Bush... February 27, 2006 Other Comments: World War of Ideas It is one thing to tell the truth even when it damages your friends. It's another to tell untruths in order not to offend your enemies. It's one thing to give the devil his... February 26, 2006 Cash-for-Kofi DESPITE FREQUENT DECLARATIONS OF REFORM, it seems that United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has learned nothing from the U.N.'s Oil-for-Food scandal, in which Saddam Hussein's bi... February 23, 2006 Constructive Provocation By: Travis Kavulla It could have been the embassies burning, or the pledges of decapitation for offending cartoonists, or the priest shot dead while praying in his church in Tur... February 23, 2006 The Politically Correct vs. the Politically Ridiculous With the approval of the Bush administration, a company owned by the United Arab Emirates is poised to take over commercial management of shipping and stevedoring operations at six major American... February 22, 2006 Don’t Blame Democracy Democracy is getting a bum rap. President Bush's insistence on promoting democracy abroad, critics chide, has now brought Hamas, a Militant Islamist terrorist organization, to power in the W... February 20, 2006 Selling Out Moderate Islam THE DANISH CARTOONS of the Prophet Muhammad, like Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's 1989 fatwa against the British author Salman Rushdie and those who helped publish his Satanic Verses, have rev... February 18, 2006 Food for Nukes? It's bad enough that North Korea's Kim Jong Il is starving his people while building nuclear bombs. But why are we helping him? In theory, we're not. But the U.S. has been... February 16, 2006 Checked and Unbalanced As a reverent admirer of George Will, it pains me to say that his diatribe today against the National Security Agency's terrorist-surveillance program is an embarrassing magpie of hyperbole... February 15, 2006 Humanitarians for Hamas By: 2005 FDD Academic Fellow, J. Peter Pham & Michael I. Krauss. The new Hamas-dominated Palestinian Legislative Council is expected to be sworn in this Saturday. Both Presi... February 14, 2006 Were the Danish Cartoons “An Unnecessary Affront”? Co-authored by: Hugh Hewitt Speech is not free if you have permission only to say things no one could find unobjectionable or offensive. Freedom of speech n... February 14, 2006 Your Honey Or Your Lyin’ Eyes? So here we are again, a dazed planet brushing ourselves off and surveying the wreckage from the worst spree of Islam-inspired rioting, bombing, murder, and mayhem since &hellip... February 9, 2006 U.N. Procurement Scandal: How Far Did the Inside Information Travel? Co-authored by: George Russell UNITED NATIONS — On April 27, 2005, a U.N. procurement officer named Alexander Yakovlev was working unusually late.... February 9, 2006 Symposium: Banning Sharia? Just recently, the Australian government informed its Muslims that those amongst them who want to live under Islamic Sharia law should leave the country. In other words: if secularism is not your... February 8, 2006 Cartoonish Hypocrisy By: 2005 FDD Academic Fellow, J. Peter Pham & Michael I. Krauss. With all due respect for people of all religious faiths: what in Heaven's Name is going on?... February 8, 2006 The Cartoon Intifada Muslim demonstrators have been torching embassies, stoning churches and threatening mass murder – to protest cartoons characterizing Muslims as violent extremists. They have been b... February 7, 2006 Aiding the Policenet Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Ethan Gutmann, author of Losing the New China: a Story of American Commerce, Desire and Betrayal. A former Beijing business consultant and former visiti... February 7, 2006 Rage Against the Western Machine “Rage over cartoons” has been the gist of many a headline over the past week describing the violence with which masked gunmen and arsonist mobs in the Islamic world have been protesti... February 5, 2006 Times Change “The President has enhanced responsibility to resist unconstitutional provisions that encroach upon the constitutional powers of the Presidency.”... February 1, 2006 Terrorists Take Charge Terrorists Take Charge In a way, Ariel Sharon has been proven wrong. In a way, Ariel Sharon has been proven right. Last summer, Israel's Prime Minister relinquished all claims to Ga... January 31, 2006 Saudi-Syrian Relations after Hariri Tony Badran is a PhD candidate in Ancient Near Eastern studies at New York University. He is also a Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, with a particular focus on Lebanes... January 31, 2006 Political Islam and Regime Survival in Egypt This monograph reviews what practical difference reforms made for the 2005 elections and explores the uneasy and ambiguous relationship between the regime and political Islam. Its main thesis is... January 30, 2006 CATM Praises the Netherlands for Banning Iranian-Backed Terrorist Broadcasts Washington, D.C. (Jan. 31, 2006) -- The Coalition Against Terrorist Media (CATM) today praised the Netherlands for banning two Iranian-funded television stations – Hezbolla... January 30, 2006 FDD Congratulates Staff Member Tanya Gilly on Election to Iraqi National Assembly “Tanya has long believed that Iraq can be a free, democratic, pluralistic society,” said FDD President Clifford May. “She has worked hard for that goal here at FDD for the... January 29, 2006 Questions Hamas May Not Be Able to Answer By: Dr. Walid Phares. As soon as the Palestinian commission for elections declared Hamas as a winner of the legislative elections in Gaza and the West Bank, a hurricane of quest... January 29, 2006 Terrorists at the Gates By: 2005 FDD Academic Fellow, Michael I. Krauss & Peter J. Pham. Last week, the terrorist group Hamas scored a breathtaking victory in the Palestinian Authority (PA) parliam... January 29, 2006 Sanction — Before it’s Too Late By: Richard Z. Chesnoff. The Mideast mess just gets messier. Last week's Palestinian election win by the Islamist terrorist party Hamas was bad enough. Now we face a growin... January 29, 2006 How to ‘Connect the Dots’ EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece appears in the January 30, 2006, issue of National Review. Washington’s scandal du jour involves a wartime surveillance program President B... January 28, 2006 Letter to the Editor Joseph J. Ellis's ethnocentric view doesn't take into account that 9/11 is part of a broader string of deadly events in the international arena; unlike the War of Independence and the C... January 27, 2006 FDD Middle East Expert Walid Phares Visits Europe to Discuss Iran, Lebanon, Hezbollah and the Future Washington, D.C. (Jan. 27, 2006) –Dr. Walid Phares, a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and author of the new book Future Jihad, will mak... January 26, 2006 Future Jihad, Terrorist Strategies Against America by FDD Senior Fellow Dr. Walid Phares Future Jihad looks to both the past and future of the terrorist campaign against the free world by focusing on its historical, religious and cultural roots. Along the way, Phares provides i... January 25, 2006 AWOL in the War of Ideas It is one thing to tell the truth even when it damages your friends. It's another to tell untruths in order not to offend your enemies. It's one thing to give the devil his due. It&#039... January 23, 2006 A Star Rises in Bethlehem By: 2005 FDD Academic Fellow, Michael I. Krauss & J. Peter Pham. This past Thursday, Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land, following the Julian calendar, celebrated the feas... January 23, 2006 Spirited Defense Maintaining that his administration was engaged in a “terrorist surveillance program” rather than, as his critics scoff, “domestic spying,” President Bush offered a spirit... January 22, 2006 U.N. Procurement Scandal: A ‘Culture of Impunity’ UNITED NATIONS — How bad is the still expanding scandal in the United Nations' multi-billion-dollar procurement division? Based on a still-secret internal investigation, the answ... January 22, 2006 The Probable Cause of the NSA Controversy Imagine for a moment that we are at war. (For many of us, that will not require a very active imagination.) Our military-theater commanders in western Afghanistan and central Iraq sketch... January 21, 2006 Liberty vs. Terror Review of Protecting Liberty In An Age Of Terror by Philip B. Heyman In a poisonous atmosphere where worthy debates over the Patriot Act and domestic surveillance are marred by risible analogies to the worst excesses of Watergate, a thoughtful book by two former h... January 20, 2006 News Conference Calls for Action on Iran Washington, DC (Jan. 20, 2006) - The Committee on the Present Danger (CPD) and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) will hold a news conference on Monday, January... January 18, 2006 Nuclear-Armed Terrorists Four years after terrorists slaughtered 3,000 innocent Americans it should go without saying that the “international community” would not let a terrorist-sponsoring nation acquire nuc... January 15, 2006 Walid Phares: Allies or Not Allies is the Question By: Dr. Walid Phares. Walid Phares asked me to post the following for him (quote him directly) - EDIT: I added links to Intelligence Summit clips of his weekend TV appearances:... January 11, 2006 Ariel Maneuvers Four years ago this month, I visited Israel for the first time and had a meeting with Ariel Sharon. To say his public image was unfavorable would be a gross understatement. By contrast, Palestini...

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