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Thirteen months as President Trump’s national security advisor
Alexander Haig
The Death Of Dewey Clarridge
In the summer of 1981, I was Special Advisor to Secretary of State Alexander Haig, and he asked me to try to find out what the CIA was up to in Salvador and Nicaragua. “I’m afra...
Op-eds
Why Republican Presidential Candidates Support Israel
So last week during the Republican debate, hundreds of thousands of people read your tweets lambasting four of the candidates — Gov. Chris Christie, former Gov. Mike Huckabee and Senators M...
Op-eds
The Ayatollah’s Message to the World
The supreme leader of Iran has published a book entitled Palestine. As you would expect, it is a call to the Muslim world to destroy Israel and establish control over its territory...
Op-eds
Missiles and Menaces in an Iran-Russia-North Korea Alliance
At the beginning of February, Iran sent a spy satellite into orbit, the first time it had done so in three years. As you'd expect, they bragged about it, ...
Op-eds
Americans as Hostages and Targets
There are several American hostages in Iran, and the Tehran regime uses them very cruelly and relentlessly in its dealings with the U.S. government, as The Washington Post angr...
Op-eds
Crowds or Mobs, Demonstrations or Riots
When is a demonstration a riot? When you disapprove. Crowds demonstrate and mobs riot. Got it? Thus, those big assemblages of protesters in the streets of Hong Kong are crowds for most W...
Op-eds
The Obama-Khamenei Alliance
Never mind the negotiations with Iran over the Islamic Republic's nuclear weapons program. Far more urgent developments are afoot. While the foreign ministers were busily counting how many c...
Op-eds
What We Don’t Know, and Why
There's a lot we don't know, but ignorance is no obstacle to strong convictions. Ignorance comes to us easily, in part because lots of things are unknowa...
Op-eds
Is ISIS Already Here?
Experts disagree on whether or not the United States has already been penetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). CNN...
Op-eds
‘If Only Stalin Knew’
When Comrade Stalin ruled in the Kremlin, his many apologists and admirers could never bring themselves to admit that he was responsible for the many terrible acts of the Soviet Union. Indeed, th...
Op-eds
How to Protect Against A Bad Deal With Iran
Everything is coming up thorns for the Obama administration in the Middle East these days, and several of its policies seem to change daily. Take its stand on Syria's tyrant, Bashar Assad. O...
Op-eds
It’s Not The Deal, But The Dealing, That’s So Dangerous
We have swapped four Taliban terrorists, plus a member of the murderous Haqqani Group, for a kidnapped American Army soldier, Bowe Bergdahl. No one should be shocked that we made this de...
Op-eds
Why Did Rouhani Say ‘No’ to Obama?
It may not have been a flat-out rejection, but Iranian President Hassan Rouhani certainly surprised a lot of people by declining to meet with President Obama yesterday. We don't know anythin...
Op-eds
A Nasty Piece of Work
A tawdry new book accuses the late Christopher Hitchens of plagiarism—and worse.
Op-eds
The War Rages, The White House Ducks, Death Abounds
You know all this, of course, because you’ve been reading these blogs all along. But as my mother used to tell me with her charming smile and melodious voice, repetition is the basis...
Op-eds
FDD Praises New Iran Sanctions in Defense Authorization Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – With the United States and its key European allies preparing to enter negotiations over Iran’s unlawful nuclear a...
Press Releases
FDD Commends Congress for New Iran Sanctions
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – With the United States and its key European allies soon to enter negotiations over Iran’s un...
Press Releases
Symbolism and Realpolitik
Amid the complex dynamics of the Horn of Africa, the most significant national interest at stake for the United States is preventing Al-Qaeda (or any other like-minded international terrori...
Op-eds
What if They Are Already Here?
A very long time ago — back in the last century, when I worked for men like Alexander Haig and Ronald Reagan — the United States government knew of at least three terrorist sleeper ce...