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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... April 11, 2007 Peacekeepers with No Peace to Keep Somewhere along the crooked path that runs from the collapse of the Soviet Union that signaled the emergence of the United States as the world's lone superpower to the seemingly intractable... April 11, 2007 Shut Up, They Explained I enjoy a good debate as much as the next guy but, increasingly, the next guy doesn’t want to argue — he wants to demonize me. He doesn’t want to win the debate; he wants to shu... April 11, 2007 The Al Capone Model of Anti-Terror Policing AL CAPONE HAD BECOME a celebrity criminal by 1931. Everybody knew what he was up to: his litany of offenses included murder, bribery, and running illegal breweries. But the government would have... April 11, 2007 ¡Cállese!, dijeron ellos Disfruto con un buen debate como cualquier otra persona, pero cada vez más, la otra persona no quiere debatir, lo que quiere es demonizarme. No quiere ganar el debate, quiere finiquitarlo.... April 8, 2007 Don’t Investigate Pelosi — Debate Her Wouldn’t it be nice if, just once, we learned from our mistakes? The beleaguered Bush administration has had a dreadful couple of years. Now, for the first time in recent memory, a... April 5, 2007 Ahmadinejad’s “Plan B” – The Circus Continues With the decision to release the 15 British sailors, the Ahmedinejad three-ring circus and the mullah's propaganda machine have produced a better end to the hostage crisis: Release them quic... April 4, 2007 Opting for Failure? This week, the White House sent around a memo titled: “Senator Harry Reid, Then & Now.” It quoted Reid back in November saying: “We’re not going to do anything to limi... April 4, 2007 The Tipping Point in Somalia In last week's column, I warned that the situation in Somalia has become untenable: while the country's nominal "Transitional Federal Government" (TFG) is nowhere to be found and the Ug... April 4, 2007 Escoger el fracaso? Esta semana, la Casa Blanca hizo circular un memorándum con el título: “El senador Harry Reid, antes y ahora”. Citaba a Reid en noviembre pasado diciendo: “No vamo... April 4, 2007 Geneva…Again I once avidly read Andrew Sullivan. I’ve fallen out of the habit in the last few years. As documented extensively by Jonah Goldberg and Ramesh Ponnuru, among others, on National Review Onli... April 3, 2007 The Politics of Pessimism The Democrats have thrown down the gauntlet. They are insisting on a deadline for withdrawal, and backing it up with a threat to cut off funding for the troops. Pundits predict that the Democrats... April 1, 2007 The Mullahs Scoff at Geneva…Again For what seems like the millionth time since 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran has perpetrated an act of war against the West, reaffirmed its hostile, revolutionary intentions, and demonstrated... March 30, 2007 Iran’s Shadow Hovered Over Riyadh The standard for success at Arab summits is, usually, the avoidance of implosion as differences between the various rulers take center stage and eclipse more relevant issues. The end-result is us... March 29, 2007 Nuclear Motives There’s no denying it. Iran’s capture of 15 British hostages was a stroke of cunning — and a brilliant one at that. The mullahs were in a pickle. They had decided to do two thin... March 29, 2007 FDD Academic Fellow Publishes New Book on Terrorism and Economic Theory Steven Rosefielde, a 2005-2006 FDD Academic Fellow and Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina, recently published a book, Masters of Illusion, which uses economic theory to evaluate current threat information and predict future attacks. March 28, 2007 Salvaging Security in Somalia Two weeks ago in this space, I reported that the supporters of Somalia's defeated Islamic Courts Union (ICU) were reconstituting themselves as the "Popular Resistance Movement in the Land of... March 28, 2007 A Dangerous Woman Theo van Gogh was a modern Western man, a believer in reason, tolerance and multiculturalism. And so it is perhaps fitting that his last words were: “Can’t we talk about this?”... March 28, 2007 Una Mujer Peligrosa Theo van Gogh era un hombre occidental moderno, un creyente en la razón, la tolerancia y el multiculturalismo. Y por ello quizá encaja que sus últimas palabras fueran: &ldquo... March 26, 2007 Tehran Seizure In light of Iran’s taking 15 British soldiers to Iran National Review Online asked a group of experts: Is this an act of war? What can be done? What can be done about Iran generally? What c... March 24, 2007 Royal Navy Incident: Iran’s Plan to Drag the U.S. and the U.K. The capture of British Navy servicemen by Iranian forces is not simply an incident over sea sovereignty in the Persian Gulf. It is a calculated move on behalf of Teheran's Jihadi chess playe... March 22, 2007 Careful Vetting’? How could the U.S. government be funding Hamas’s university in Gaza? It’s the question that has been asked often since my front-page story in this paper earlier this month, from Capit... March 22, 2007 High-Stakes Poker in the Persian Gulf Earlier this week, Iran’s spiritual leader Ali Khamenei began preparing public opinion for Iran’s withdrawal from the nuclear-nonproliferation regime. Today we have reports that the I... March 22, 2007 Symposium: Iran: The Countdown With Iran's Mullahs refusing to stop their nuclear program, a collision with the U.S. appears inevitable -- and approaching sooner rather than later. To discuss the Iranian threat and the o... March 21, 2007 Good News from Cote d’Ivoire It often seems that the news media, both traditional and new, operate under a journalistic version of Gresham's Law whereby bad news trumps good news. This certainly appears to be t... March 21, 2007 The Inter-Branch Clash Over Fired U.S. Attorneys From the very start, the Bush administration’s self-induced debacle over fired United States attorneys has blurred law and politics. Now, the blur has officially grown into the fog of inter... March 19, 2007 The Myth of Moderate Mullahs If the Reagan administration had learned in 1987 that the clerical regime in Tehran was doing what it is doing today, would Washington have approved of preventive strikes on Iranian nuclear facil... March 19, 2007 Future Jihad Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Walid Phares, a Professor of Middle East Studies and Religious Conflict at the LLS Program of Florida Atlantic University and a visiting Professor at Na... March 18, 2007 New Book Release: The Confrontation by Dr. Walid Phares by FDD Senior Fellow Dr. Walid Phares... March 15, 2007 More Questions about the U.N. in North Korea It’s bad enough that the United Nations Development Program office in North Korea has been handing over hard currency to the regime of Kim Jong Il. But a new twist now emerging in the Cash-... March 14, 2007 Breach Lewis Libby’s lawyers are quietly filing appeals while President Bush privately ponders arguments for and against a pardon. But now is not the time for this controversy to fade away. Now is... March 14, 2007 Playing Politics with Politics “Loyalty to Bush and Gonzales,” blared Wednesday’s ominous headline in the New York Times, “Was Factor in Prosecutors’ Firings[.]” One would hope so.... March 14, 2007 Smoldering in Somalia More than three months after the United Nations Security Council first authorized an international contingent to go into the territory of the onetime Somali Democratic Republic to keep a nonexist... March 7, 2007 Phantom Ministers and the Spirit of Democracy About six months ago, writing in the lead-up to the second round of the presidential election in the rather ironically named Democratic Republic of Congo, I used this column space to note: ... March 5, 2007 Muslims Against Jihad? A peculiar conference, taking place on the West coast of Florida drew the attention of many observers of the War of ideas: The first Secular Islam Summit. Organized by the Center for Inquiry Tran... March 4, 2007 Close the Immigration Vault with Employer Enforcement Imagine we had only a single, government-chartered financial institution: the First National Bank. Imagine it had begun a new policy: Henceforth, the vault would remain open and stocked to the br... March 1, 2007 The Battle for Nigeria WITH AROUND 36 billion barrels of proven petroleum reserves-the largest in Africa and the eighth largest in the world-Nigeria is America's fifth-largest supplier of oil. In 2006, the United... February 28, 2007 Coalition Against Terrorist Media Calls on Egypt, Saudi Arabia to Stop Broadcasting Terrorist Televi Washington, Feb 28, 2007 Following Egypt’s decision to pull an Iraqi television station accused of supporting terrorism from its NileSat satellite system, the Coalition Against Ter... February 28, 2007 Hollywood Shuffle How curious that at the Academy Awards ceremony last weekend not a word was said about the terrorist movements dedicated to the destruction of the West. Hollywood stars and moguls don&rs... February 28, 2007 Au revoir, mon Général Exactly four months ago in this same column space, I observed that just "getting the outside world to focus on the current terrorist and other security challenges in Africa is a difficult enough... February 28, 2007 Barricades at the Serail The Serail is one of the most beautiful buildings in Beirut. Its stately arches and imposing mass convey both authority and permanence — the Serail was built centuries ago to serve as the s...

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