Saudi Arabia Strikes Back
For those concerned about the fallout from President Barack Obama and his administration’s nuclear deal with Iran — the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Actio...
Al Khobar
Saudis Stung by Obama Iran Initiative
President Obama’s Friday telephone call with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani—the first at such a level in over three decades—has exacerbated existing problems between the Unite...
Op-eds
WikiLeaks: The Iran-Al Qaeda Connection
A State Department cable released by WikiLeaks earlier this week contains a stunning new detail about the relationship between Iran and al Qaeda. The Saudis have privately complained to the Obama...
Op-eds
Should Israel Bomb Iran?
There is only one thing that terrifies Washington’s foreign policy establishment more than the prospect of an American airstrike against Iran’s nuclear-weapons facilities: an Israeli...
Op-eds
Gitmo Does Not Cause Terrorism
So we're going to shut down the detention center at the U.S. naval base on Guantanamo Bay and move the 200-plus terrorists detained there to a seldom-used civilian correctional center in Tho...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Negotiate with Iran?
The Iraq Study Group’s call for negotiations with Iran and Syria as “a way forward” has been widely derided. It is, abjectly, a return to September 10th thinking — to the...
Op-eds
War? What War?
The Bush administration's reluctance to identify the enemy in the “war on terror” — to deal with the Islamic in Islamic milita...
Op-eds
Course Correction
Israel's war against Hezbollah is a watershed in the war on terror. As long as we understand that it's not just Israel's war. And it's not just against Hezbollah. Hez...
Op-eds
Khobar Towers
Ten years ago this Sunday, acting under direct orders from senior Iranian government leaders, the Saudi Hezbollah detonated a 25,000-pound TNT bomb that killed 19 U.S. airmen in their dormitory a...
Op-eds
To Bomb, or Not to Bomb
WHEN I WAS RECENTLY in Paris, a French diplomat explained to me why he--and many others in the French foreign ministry--thought the United States would, in the end, bomb Iran's nuclear-weapo...
Op-eds
Turning Off Terrorist Television
Slowly and with difficulty, America's military is learning to fight the armed conflicts of the 21st century. Slowly and with difficulty, are we also learning to fight a modern war of ideas....
Op-eds
Bin Laden’s Beef with America
Osama bin Laden's striking new videotape, in which he addresses the American people on the eve of our elections, is as much about his own campaign for power and influence in the Muslim world...
Op-eds
Beware of the Terrorist Moles
Last week's dire warning from Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller was deadly clear: Al Qaeda is alive and well and planning a large-scale attack in the U.S. and/or...