Augusto Pinochet

January 12, 2025 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

How the Left Views Langley

REVIEW: 'The CIA: An Imperial History’ by Hugh Wilford

February 14, 2013 | Clifford D. May

The ‘Targeted-Killing’ Memos

Why shouldn’t the public get to read them?

December 14, 2012 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please! |

Dictators and Double Standards

As we watch the Syrian dictator struggle to survive, and the Egyptian would-be dictator run from an angry mob, and as we think back to the many fallen dictators of the recent past – Gorbach...

May 16, 2011 |

Bin Laden’s Killing Shows Us the Irrelevance of “International Law”

 This past week, the NDP’s Thomas Mulcair became a figure of ridicule for suggesting that the United States doesn’t have photos of Osama bin Laden’s body — presumably...

February 2, 2011 | Michael Ledeen Pajamas Media

The Problem of the Friendly Tyrant

  We’ve had many alliances with friendly tyrants, from Stalin to Papa Doc, from Mubarak to Pinochet, from the shah to the Saudi royal family.  It’s not an easy embr...

November 12, 2009 | World Defense Review

Return of the Somali Pirates

By Dr. Peter Pham After maintaining a relatively low profile since the end of the monsoon season two months ago, Somali pirates literally shot their way back into the headlines...

March 31, 2009 |

Spain’s ‘Universal Jurisdiction’ Power Play

As the U.S. government’s myriad intrusions radically transform our economy, few seem to notice the dangerous progress of the international Left’s assault on American sovereignty. With...

December 11, 2006 |

Pinochet is History

A Spanish joke: a reporter traveled to Spain to learn what people think of Franco.  Upon arriving in a village, the reporter asked one man, but the man insisted they walk out into the countr...

October 28, 2004 | Clifford D. May FrontPageMagazine |

Symposium: Iraq: Fight or Flight?

Co-authored by: Jamie Glaznov, Greg Bates, David Lindorff and Jed Babbin. Where are we headed in Iraq? Is it crucial to stay and fight for victory, or, as some liberal-left crit...

December 30, 2003 | Wall Street Journal |

Deal With the Devil

With Moammar Gadhafi's conversion--if that's what it is--there's greater hope that other tyrants may scrap their programs for weapons of mass murder and offer snap, unconditional t...