Facing failure in Lebanon
Why the U.S. should stop subsidizing Tehran’s proxy
David Petraeus
Building on Biden’s Israel Commitments Before It’s Too Late
During President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel last week, he and Prime Minister Yair Lapid signed a landmark declaration that contains several important U.S. commitments, including on preventing Iran from...
Op-eds
Iran nuclear talks are restarting, but they’re pointless: Biden needs a bipartisan strategy
President Joe Biden’s Iran policy is failing, and the indirect negotiations restarting in Vienna Nov. 29 won’t yield a win. Biden assumed that goodwill gestures and proactive concessions would bring...
Op-eds
Twenty 9/11 anniversaries
The sleeping giant nods off again
Op-eds
Choosing defeat in Afghanistan
America’s many enemies will be encouraged and emboldened
Op-eds
The 9/11 anniversary and the 9/11 wars
Containing and disrupting jihadists is a mission worth accomplishing
Op-eds
The new Persian empire
Eleven years ago, Henry Kissinger famously said that Iran...
Op-eds
Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy Could Actually Work
While I support President Donald Trump’s de...
Op-eds
Afghanistan and the war against the West
The conflict in Afghanistan is often referred to as “the longest war in American history.” From that, you mi...
Op-eds
Trump Administration Still Doesn’t Have an Iran Policy
The Trump administration, for once in harmony with Congress, is going to slap more sanctions on Iran. They stress this has nothing to do with the nuclear deal, but is rather in response to Tehran...
Op-eds
Reincarnation
There’s a fascinating story in the weekend&...
Op-eds
Top general: 50,000-troop coalition needed in order to crush ISIS
It will take a coalition of 50,000 troops on the ground to defeat the Islamic State, according to the former army chief of staff who spent more than four years serving in Iraq and who is credited...
Op-eds
Memo to Presidential Campaign Advisers
This memorandum is addressed to the brave souls advising presidential candidates. As you know, the recent terrorist attacks in France – and in Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Egypt, Lebanon, Turke...
Op-eds
The Long War Continues
In many ways, the reaction to the horrific attacks in Paris has been familiar. There were the expressions of solidarity: flowers at French embassies; social media avatars changed from silly selfi...
Op-eds
Iran Shipping Weapons Across Middle East
Reports surfaced last Friday about the arrival o...
Policy Briefs
The Dubious Deal of the Century
Remember when President Obama said that to prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapons capability, he would keep all options “on the table”? How long has it...
Op-eds
Reaction to the Charlie Hebdo Massacre Shows How We’ve Lost Our Free-Speech Spine
A backward slide since the clarity that followed a fatwa against Salman Rushdie
Op-eds
The Benghazi Report
Co-authored by Stephen F. Hayes After a long day on November 13, 2013, Speaker of the House John Boehner walked down the marble hallways of the Longworth House Office Building t...
Op-eds
They Have a Strategy
During a press conference on August 28, Barack Obama had a rare moment of candor. “We don’t have a strategy yet,” the president said in response to a question about the prospect...
Op-eds
Know Your Enemy
In the summer of 2008, Barack Obama, senator and presidential candidate, toured the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama had endeared himself to the antiwar left by denouncing President Bush’s d...