Turkey’s Dubious Case against a U.S. Pastor
Turkish courts last week charged U.S. pastor Andrew Brunson with “membership in an armed terrorist organization,” transferring him to a high-security prison after two months in solitary confinement in...
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Turkey’s Dubious Case against a U.S. Pastor
Turkish courts last week charged U.S. pastor Andr...
Policy Briefs
How the world has changed since 9/11
The 15th anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 should be a time for mourning, commemoration, reflection — and strategic planning. But many people prefer to avoid thinking to...
Op-eds
Tracking freedom’s enemies
If I were to ask an intelligent person like you what happened in the 20th century, or the 19th or the 18th, you could probably sum up the most significant developments. But if I asked you what is...
Op-eds
Obama’s Iran experiment
A hypothetical question: Suppose the Islamic State wanted to buy some American airplanes, and promised not to use them to support terrorists. Would you be OK with that? I’m guessing not....
Op-eds
Hezbollah’s Sunni Support Network
Hezbollah announced the death this weekend of seven of its fighters in Syria during fighting in southern Aleppo....
Policy Briefs
End of the West?
Should the United States militarily defeat jihadist outfits in the Middle East? After 9/11 the answer seemed easy, but after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Barack Obama is not alone in arguing...
Op-eds
An Iraqi Abroad
Before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, my friend Ahmad Chalabi would often carry fat tomes about America’s occupations of Germany and Japan. An Iraqi exile after 1958 who lived mainly in Lond...
Op-eds
An Unhappy United Nations Birthday
Did it escape your attention that last month was the 70th birthday of the United Nations? Did you miss the opportunity to celebrate by following Elyx on an “exciting 70-day (virtual) trip a...
Op-eds
Analysis: A Human Rights Record Worse Than Ahmadinejad’s
President Rouhani has gone to great lengths to try to put a human face on the Islamic Republic’s regime. He has failed. “The human rights situation in the country remai...
Op-eds
Saving Christians From ISIS Persecution
In 1975, as desperate Vietnamese sought to escape Communist rule, the U.S. embarked on what remains one of the greatest humanitarian rescue missions in history. Over the span of several weeks, Op...
Op-eds
Analysis: What Are Europe’s Options in War-Torn Syria?
With European leaders scrambling to contain a growing Sy...
Op-eds
The Lessons of Armenia Should Not Be Lost
Displayed outside the Turkish embassy in Washington last week was a large banner reading: “Armenian Genocide is an Imperialist Lie.” That claim might be amusing were the subject not s...
Op-eds
From Salman Rushdie to Charlie Hebdo
A quarter-century of Western fecklessness led from the former to the latter.
Op-eds
Giving Peace a Chance
Rarely do so many distinguished members of the foreign policy community gather in a single room. But this was the Great Hall of the United States Institute of Peace: a Washington “instituti...
Op-eds
Treating Our Friends Like Enemies
The Obama administration’s foreign policy provides a kind of porcelain alliance for America’s allies across the world. Three telling cases in point over the last week brought things t...
Op-eds
Barbarism of Iranian Militias Based in Iraq, Syria Being Seriously Overlooked
The US’s deadly strike on the al-Qaida-linked Khorasan group leader Mohsin al-Fadhli...
Op-eds
A Job Americans Don’t Want To Do?
Barack Obama has been taking a lot of heat for acknowledging he doesn’t “have a strategy yet” for dealing with the jihadis butchering Iraqis, Syrians, Christians, Kurds and Yazi...
Op-eds
Fatal Procrastination
In his April 2012 speech at the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., President Obama said: "We must tell our children about how this evil was allowed to happen — because so many people su...
Op-eds
The U.N.’s Grotesque Gaza Inquiry
Bias against Israel is the most glaring problem with the new Gaza inquiry that the United Nations Human Rights Council launched last month. The council has appointed as its chief inv...