Great Power Competition Comes Home to America
Our leaders’ efforts to heal divisions among our fellow citizens are key to national defense.
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Replacing patriotism with tribalism
Just after last week’s terrorist attack in Barcelona, a pro-Islamic State website posted video from the scene along with a message in Arabic saying, “Terror is filling the hearts of t...
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Cause and Effect in the Middle East
JERUSALEM - “The Palestinian Rothschild” is just one of Munib al-Masri’s colorful nicknames. A longtime advisor to Yasser Arafat, the late Palestinian leader, he is today an 8...
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Negotiating with Ourselves
Analyzing the Islamic Republic isn’t a guessing game—at least it shouldn’t be. Iranian Islamists’ words and deeds are pretty consistent. Memoirs, speeches, and biographies...
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Dark Past Haunts Czech Election
It’s not often that a 70-year-old political dispute plays a role in a contemporary political campaign. But that’s precisely what is happening in the race for president of the Czech Re...
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The Mirage of the Arab Spring
We Americans are nice people. We don’t like to see anyone living under tyranny. So when protests broke out against the authoritarian regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, most of us were supportive...
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It’s Not the Arab Spring, It’s the Nahda
And it’s about “subjugating people” and “the Islamization of life.”
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Long, Hot Arab Summer
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Commentary on the Arab Spring is much like the famous parable of the blind men learning about an elephant by touching it: Most observers glimpse...
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The Next President
I don’t have a candidate yet, but I do have some traditional requirements. Most of the time, we elect either state governors or generals who have won wars. There are good...
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9/11 Plotters Are Araigned
. . . and, finally, the commissions may prove their worth.
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End the Stealth Government
"FISA reform" must mean less FISA Court.
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The Wave Continues
It is still striking, two months into the Great Arab Rebellion, how timorously many Westerners greet the region-wide uprising. Recognizing that democratic aspirations may be only a small factor i...
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The Pirates of Somalia
Not long after achieving independence, the United States faced its first foreign threat: pirates off the coast of Africa seizing American merchant ships. As Michael Oren recounts in...
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Corker’s Case for START: As Convincing as ‘A Letter from My Mother’
Patting himself and his fellow Senate Republicans on the back for selling o...
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How to Get Julian Assange
Julian Assange is the impresario of the WikiLeaks cyber-war against the United States. By disclosing national defense secrets allegedly purloined by a rogue soldier, he has damaged American comba...
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Is There a Right to Know?
Why redact anything? That is the question that springs to mind in reading the self-justification offered by the New York Times for lending its megaphone to Wikileaks. The paper is now pu...
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Winner Takes All
Machiavelli on what makes a great leader.
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9/11 Plotters Are Arraigned
Unable to start a single trial in seven fitful years, much less complete one, President Bush’s troubled military commissions may be lumbering...
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Military Judge Dismisses Commission Charges Against Omar Khadr
When it comes to figuring out who is with al Qaeda, Omar Khadr is not a close case. In July 2002, Khadr was on the battlefield in Afghanistan, aligned with al Qaeda. During a ferocious f...
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The Turkish Model
Why aren’t more moderate Muslims protesting against Islamism? Actually, hundreds of thousands have been doing exactly that -- marching in the streets of Turkey’s major cities to insis...