Bush Foreign Policy Settles into Weird State of Denial
It's an alarming sign for U.S. foreign policy when Central Intelligence Agency Director Michael Hayden says, as he did last month on NBC's Meet the Press, that, personally, he...
Condoleezza Rice
Dating Yourself
Fear and frustration in Geneva
Op-eds
Bush should honor a pledge and save a Libyan dissident
You won't see it on the evening news because TV cameras are not allowed into the dungeons of Libya. But somewhere in the prison system of Moammar Gadhafi, held in solitary confinement for al...
Op-eds
Time for U.S. to Reject U.N.’s Anti-Democratic Conference
If a group of despotic governments wants to organize a global mega-conference dedicated to fueling hatred of Jews, Israel and the United States, the United Nations might not be able to stop it. B...
Op-eds
Baradei’s Promise to Declare War on Israel
Mario, how could you say the execrable Mohammed El Baradei is “obviously playing to public opinion” by threatening war against Israel. I thought we’d been told that there...
Op-eds
It’s Not that Qaddafi Was Right, It’s that We Knew He Was Right
Jonah[2] and Mark[3] went back and forth over the weekend on the question of whether Qaddafi has been right in saying that the “’rebels’ are al Qaeda.” In particular, Jona...
Op-eds
No Intervention in Libya
I am against intervention in Libya. In explaining why, four things about the ongoing commentary and handwringing over no-fly zones and other potential U.S. intrusions seem noteworthy. Fi...
Op-eds
Libya’s Makeover
‘The relationship has been moving in a good direction for a number of years now, and I think tonight does mark a new phase,” said Condoleezza Rice. President Bush’s secretary of...
Op-eds
Palestinian Pulse: What Policymakers Can Learn From Palestinian Social Media
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) has released the first-ever study mining the Arabic-language Palestinian social media environment to determine Palestinian public sentiment and its...
Op-eds
Fear the Muslim Brotherhood
At the Daily Beast, Bruce Riedel has posted an essay called “Don’t fear Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood,” the classic, conventional-wisdom response to the crisis in Egypt. The...
Op-eds
Cancer, Carter and Obama
There are some eery similarities between Egypt 2011 and Iran 1979, and some of them are unfortunately about American leadership. There are some big differences, too, but for the moment let&...
Op-eds
The Transies and the Treaty
Here is what you need to understand about the Republican party’s transnational progressives, folks like Condoleezza Rice, John McCain, Richard Lugar, and Lindsey Graham: They proceed from t...
Op-eds
The Bipartisan Push for Missile Defense
The coming Congress will bring new opportunity for bipartisan consensus on a traditionally contentious policy matter — advancing missile defense. On November 20th at the Lisbon summit, NATO...
Op-eds
WikiLeaks, Iran, and Obama
The latest dump of classified WikiLeaks documents shows a few important facts: (1) The United States military unavoidably classifies a mountain of documents because of the easy loquacity of moder...
Op-eds
Palestinian Pulse: What Policymakers Can Learn From Palestinian Social Media
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) has released the first-ever study mining the Arabic-language Palestinian social media environment to determine Palestinian public sentiment and its pote...
Books
Obama’s Enforcer
Stuart Levey is the last person to put you in mind of Tony Soprano. Slight and good-natured, he pooh-poohs the notion that what he does for a living is a kind of genteel arm-twisting—intended to,...
Op-eds
Hope And Change In Iraq
In Iraq we are now where we should have been in 2005 if the Sunni Arab community had not staged a bloody revanchist insurrection. The parliamentary elections on March 7 gave us a good snapshot of...
Op-eds
We’ve Been Talking to Iran for 30 Years
The Obama administration's talks with Iran-set to take place tomorrow in Geneva-are accompanied by an almost universally accepted misconception: that previous American administrations refused to ne...
Op-eds
Michael Ledeen on Iran and Democracy
I hadn't seen Michael Ledeen in years when I bumped into him at a party for George Gilder's new book, The Israel Test. An admirer of Machiavelli, Ledeen has for years focused o...
Op-eds
We’ve Been Talking to Iran for 30 Years
The Obama administration's talks with Iran-set to take place tomorrow in Geneva-are accompanied by an alm...