Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse

April 10, 2014 | |

Kuwait’s Embattled Justice Minister Part of Deeper Terror Finance Problem

A contentious battle over Kuwait’s reported role in terrorism finance is currently playing out in public. Earlier this year, the Kuwaiti Amir appointed a highly questionable figure to run h...

August 1, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

Al Qaeda Is Back!

By all accounts, the attack was planned with care and executed with precision. At two notorious Iraqi prisons, Abu Ghraib and Taji, al-Qaeda combatants last week used mo...

July 29, 2013 | Michael Ledeen

The Metaphysics of Jailbreaks

In the mid-seventies, when I was reporting from Rome for The New Republic, jailbreaks were commonplace.  Red Brigades terrorists and other such broke out of prisons throughout the c...

May 31, 2012 | James Kirchick Out

Bradley Manning is No Gay Hero

From 1916, when the United States military first expressly prohibited homosexuals, until the 1993 passage of "don't ask, don't tell" (DADT), gay men and women were considered psychologi...

March 5, 2012 | James Kirchick Commentary |

The Deceits of Seymour Hersh

Last June, the distinguished American journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in the New Yorker entitled “Iran and the Bomb: How Real Is the Nuclear Threat?” His answer...

February 12, 2012 | |

[email protected]

In the fall of 2007 Israel reportedly hacked into Syria’s air defense systems and disabled them, as a prelude to bombing a nuclear facility in the Syrian desert. This vaunted cyber exploit,...

August 4, 2011 | Wall Street Journal

Gitmo’s Indefensible Lawyers

Co-Authored with Debra Burlingame On the evening of Jan. 26, 2006, military guards at Guantanamo Bay made an alarming discovery during a routine cell check. Lying on the bed of...

June 22, 2011 |

The Missing Pictures; No Coverage of Torture Pre-Abu Ghraib

 When the Abu Ghraib prison-abuse crisis exploded, I analyzed the reactions coming from the Arab world. In an election year, the stakes are high for all parties involved. Each side wants a c...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online

The CIA Interrogation Tapes

Remember when this was a real war?

June 13, 2011 |

Surprise! The Times Attacks the Messenger

Linda Greenhouse is conflicted, so obviously the problem is Ed Whelan.

June 13, 2011 | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Foreign Policy Shouldn’t be Based on U.S.-centric Coverage

"Does U.S. media coverage of world events provide a sound basis for foreign policy decision making?"

December 17, 2009 |

Save the SEALs

Three SEALs are now in trouble. Petty Officer 2nd Class Matthew McCabe stands accused of "assault, dereliction of performance of duty for willfully failing to safeguard a det...

June 4, 2009 | Clifford D. May |

Obama Derangement Syndrome?

Long afflicted with Bush Derangement Syndrome, Rall has his knickers in a knot now because he thinks Obama has a plan for "preventive detentions." He claims to have seen "reports in U.S. state-co...

July 28, 2008 | Bill Roggio The Long War Journal

Female suicide bombers kill 70 Iraqis in Kirkuk, Baghdad

Al Qaeda in Iraq conducted two successful strikes in Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk. At least seventy Iraqi civilians were killed and more than 300 wounded in four suicide attacks,...

April 12, 2008 |

Foreign Policy Shouldn’t be Based on U.S.-centric Coverage


"Does U.S. media coverage of world events provide a sound basis for foreign policy decision making?"

 

August 20, 2007 |

The Audacity of Shallowness

What would the Democrats do?

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...

November 9, 2006 |

Two Views on Rumsfeld

When the nation went to war in Iraq in 2003 (with overwhelming popular support) and for a long time after that, Rumsfeld had rock-star status. With Abu Ghraib and his management of this millstone...

November 9, 2006 |

Symposium: The D.O.D. After Rumsfeld

When the nation went to war in Iraq in 2003 (with overwhelming popular support) and for a long time after that, Rumsfeld had rock-star status. With Abu Ghraib and his management of this millstone...

June 7, 2006 | National Review Online

A Crucial Moment

Simply stated, the killing of Abu Musab Zarqawi by U.S. forces in Iraq is more vital to ultimate success in the war on terror than would be snuffing out any other terrorist alive right now. Perio...