The Hitler Test
Why is it that no one bats an eyelash when a former United States national security adviser says...
Donald Rumsfeld
Among the Truthers
Do we live in the age of conspiracy? In April, after repeated prodding by then-Presidential candidate Donald Trump, Barack Obama felt compelled to release his "long form" birth ce...
Op-eds
A Pattern of Appeasement and Retreat
Take two headlines, one about Iraq, the other about Afghanistan. The Iraqis told us to honor our signed agreement, and pull out all our troops by year’s end. Over in Kabul,...
Op-eds
It’s a Real War, Stupid. A Big War. A Worthy Challenge for America
If we are going to win in the Middle East, we have to get the context right. As I wrote in The War Against the Terror Masters, long before the invasion of Iraq, we cannot just “do&rdq...
Op-eds
The Art of the Flip-Flop
Pity poor Harry Reid. Back in April, the Senate Democratic leader proclaimed the war in Iraq "lost." Two months before Gen. David Petraeus had in place the reinforcements he needed to implement h...
Op-eds
Symposium: Shattered Dreams of Al Qaeda
FP: Bill Roggio, Andy McCarthy and Steve Schippert, welcome to this special edition of Frontpage Symposium. Bill Roggio, give us the background to how these documents we...
Op-eds
The Long War
Yes, we've been in Iraq five years and counting; and yes, the outcome counts.
Op-eds
La Larga Guerra
Hace 5 años este mes, las tropas americanas liberaron el Irak de Sadam Hussein. Y luego vino lo difícil. La inteligencia americana se había equivocado respecto al ar...
Op-eds
Lawfare’s Soft Targets
The failure of the Bush administration to reverse its predecessors’ drastic shrinkage of our armed services is notorious. Yet, because our fighters are the greatest in human history, the most pern...
Op-eds
Should the CIA Turn Against Pakistan’s Spies?
The recent chief-of-station (COS) cover-shredding brouhaha between the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate marks an ironic and pos...
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
A Guide to Avoiding Disaster in Afghanistan
For those of us who can remember how lonely it was to be in favor of the Iraq war and the hoped-for surge in 2006, reflecting on America’s current travails in Afghanistan—a “foo...
Op-eds
Turban Renewal?
In his new book, After Khomeini, Said Amir Arjomand, a professor from Stony Brook University, writes in three different voices – the professor, the reformist and the apologist – that...
Op-eds
Unfortunately, Failure Is an Option
By Reuel Marc Gerecht and Lawrence B. Lindsey One of the standard accoutrements of the decision making process in the West Wing is the three-option "decision memorandum...
Op-eds
Will Obama ‘Do a Rumsfeld’ In Afghanistan?
When I was in Afghanistan earlier this year it was clear we didn't have enough troops to do anything more than tread water. Things have only gotten worse. President Obama is offerin...
Op-eds
General McChrystal — The Right Man for the Job
FOXNews.com - June 02, 2009 Lt. Gen McChyrstal’s confirmation hearings this week provide an much needed opportunity to review our policies going forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan...
Op-eds
Afghan Awakening
IN SEPTEMBER of 2008, Admiral Michael Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made a remarkable statement. He said, "I'm not convinced we're winning in Afghanistan. I am conv...
Op-eds
The Long War
Five years ago this month, American troops liberated Iraq from Saddam Hussein. Then came the hard part.
Op-eds
Lawfare’s Soft Targets
The failure of the Bush administration to reverse its predecessors’ drastic shrinkage of our armed services is notorious. Yet, because our fighters are the greatest in human history, the most pernicious fall-out of our parsimony remains unnoticed. The peerless but thinly stretched U.S. military, it turns out, has an Achilles’ heel: it cannot combat lawfare waged against the private partners on whom it is ever more dependent.
Op-eds
Surging: It’s getting harder to deny that General Petraeus is making progress
“The only thing this surge will accomplish is a surge of more death and destruction.” That was the prediction of blogger and anti-war activist Arianna Huffington back in December of l...