Hamas’s Benefactors: A Network of Terror
Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Deutch, Ranking Member Sherman, and distinguished members of these subcommittees, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I tha...
Condoleezza Rice
Hamas’s Benefactors: A Network of Terror
Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Deutch, Ranking Member Sherman, and distinguished members of these subcommittees, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I thank yo...
Congressional Testimonies
Iran and The Straw Man
The estimable Sohrab Ahmari of the indispensable Wall Street Journal editorial page does some...
Op-eds
The Limitations of al Qaeda’s New English Webzine
Al Qaeda announced this weekend the forthcoming publication of a new Englis...
Policy Briefs
The Other Long War
The Muslim world needs democracy and economic reform — on that, almost everyone agrees. As Rami Khouri, columnist for the Daily Star of Beirut, recently...
Op-eds
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
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
Catastrophic Consensus: A Dissent From Spengler and Mead
Spengler (aka David Goldman) is one of my close friends and a long-time guru. William Russell Mead is just a guru, but I’m an avid fan. So when I find myself disagreeing with bo...
Op-eds
John Kerry is Obama’s Middle East Canary
In one of his first acts as the new US Secretary of State, John Kerry spoke to both Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Israel’s President, Shimon Peres, to stress his de...
Op-eds
Unlikely Peacemakers
Sharon disengaged from Gaza because he wanted to disentangle the people he had spent a lifetime protecting from their nemesis.
Op-eds
The Obama Doctrine: Is he an Imperialist With a Little Foot, or Just an Old-Fashioned Appeaser?
Here comes Ross Douthat, trying to sort out Obama’s foreign policy. He’s got...
Op-eds
The New Iranian Hostage Crisis
Over and over again, we are told that direct U.S.-Iranian negotiations would be a radical departure from past practice, and might decisively improve the “relationship.” Both...
Op-eds
Lessons of the Battle of Benghazi
Our enemies will learn them. Will we?
Op-eds
Misunderstanding 9/11
Learning the wrong lessons can be costly.
Op-eds
What Condi Says About Romney
Floating Rice’s name as a possible vice president shows the Romney campaign’s lack of foreign-policy smarts
Op-eds
Lose LOST
The Law of the Sea Treaty requires surrendering sovereignty and paying taxes to international bureaucrats and dictators.
Op-eds
Saving Syria from Kofi Annan
Some headlines seem designed to invite a one-word rejoinder, and so it is with a recent article on Slate:...
Op-eds
Terrorists or Fall Guys?
The MEK puzzle.
Op-eds
Santorum Was Right About Iran—When It Was Unpopular
A grandfather who fled Mussolini taught him to prize freedom.
Op-eds
The Military, Not Mubarak, was Egyptians’ Real Enemy
Aside from Egypt, perhaps no place in the world was more galvanized by the events in Cairo’s Tahrir Square last year than Washington. American policymakers and foreign policy experts on bot...