Mahmoud and the Wizards of Turtle Bay
Declarations and resolutions do not a state make.
Basques
Be Wise on Kosovo
Over the past few months a number of Western leaders, including senior United States figures, have lent their support to separating the province of Kosovo from the Republic of Serbia, based on th...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Pirates of Somalia: The Curse of the Failed State
On April 4, MY Le Ponant, an 850-ton three-masted luxury sailing yacht owned by CMA CGM S.A., a French firm headed by Lebanese-born businessman Jacques Saadé that is the third-largest container shipping company in the world, was en route from the Seychelles to the Mediterranean when it was seized in international waters in the Gulf of Aden by Somali pirates. A week later, after the owners had paid a ransom reported to be around $2 million, Le Ponant docked at the port of Eyl in the semi-autonomous northeastern region of Puntland and the 30 crew members – twenty-two Frenchmen, six Filipinos, a Cameroonian, and a Ukrainian – were released. French forces, however, tracked the attackers to the nearby fishing village of Jariban where helicopter-borne commandos disabled the escape vehicle with sniper fire and seized six of what is thought to have been an original band of twelve fugitives. The six prisoners were flown to Paris where they were arraigned before a French court on charges of theft, hijacking, and hostage-taking.
Op-eds
Books: Some Unconventional Wisdom
Ian Bremmer, The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 320 pp., $26.00. Charles Peña, Winning the Un-War: A New Strate...
Op-eds
What’s In a Name?
The "struggle" to brand the "Not War on Not Terror."
Op-eds
Release ‘Em
The State department plays games with terrorism stats.
Op-eds
Listening to Kerry; His Iraq-is-a-Diversion Claim Exploits a Real Weakness
We often tend to reject the message simply because of who the messenger is — especially if the messenger can't seem to keep his story straight from one day to the next. But it would be...
Op-eds
The Trains of Jihad Derail Spain
As I heard the horrible news on the Thursday morning of the terrorist attacks in Spain, my mind turned to the news releases made by the Spanish government regarding the attacks. Madrid's con...
Op-eds
Mugged by Surreality
By Stephen Schwartz FRANCE HAS ALWAYS BEEN a country with a divided soul: on one side, a record of humanistic Enlightenment philosophy and modern art unrivalled by any other nation; on t...
Op-eds
When is Terrorism Justified?
Our message … is clear," Attorney General Ashcroft said last Thursday. "We make no distinction between those who carry out terror attacks and those who finance and manage [them]."...