Unfinished Business
Donald Trump is fond of claiming that his predecessor mismanaged America's role in the world. "And I have to just say that the world is a mess. I inherited a mess," the president noted durin...
Indian Union Muslim League
Catch and Release: Did Qatar Free a Future al-Qaeda Emir?
Farouq al-Qahtani al-Qatari, a core al-Qaeda official and senior planner of terrorist attacks from Afghanistan against the U.S. homeland, is now dead. ...
Op-eds
Irish senators slammed for anti-Israel bias
Irish senators attacked Israel with accusations of apartheid during a parliamentary debate in late November about the closure of the bank account of a BDS group, prompting criticism on Friday fro...
Op-eds
The Ayatollah in Winter
The Lord works in mysterious ways. That sentence does not appear in the Koran. Nor, actually, is it found in the Bible. But in recent days it has probably occurred to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran...
Op-eds
Hezbollah, Iran, And The Assad Regime Are Trying To Cash In On The Paris Attacks
France’s pain is an opportunity for others to gain. Last Friday, Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah attacked Sunni jihadists as the gravest threat to Islam and it...
Op-eds
Should Canadians fight in faraway conflicts?
Is it possible to articulate any broad principles governing the acceptability of Canadians fighting abroad, apart from serving in the Canadian Armed Forces? Perhaps two recent stories ca...
Op-eds
Book Review: ‘A Time to Attack’ By Matthew Kroenig
Here's a prediction: Next month in Vienna, Iran and the P5+1 world powers will extend the interim agreement they struck six months ago on Iran's nuclear program. Secretary of State ...
Op-eds
A Baleful Peace Process
To be outrageously iconoclastic among the Washington foreign-policy crowd is easy: Just suggest that the Israeli-Arab peace process is not merely pointless but actually damaging to America’...
Op-eds
Tunisia’s War with Ansar Al-Sharia
Co-authored by Bridget Moreng Ever since August 27th, when Tunisia designated the Salafi jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia in Tunisia (AST) a terrorist organization and issued...
Op-eds
To Confront Syria, the U.S. Needs to Confront Iran
Michael Ramirez has a wonderful political cartoon today about the pressing need to pay attention to the Islamic Republic...
Op-eds
The Iran-Syria Nexus and its Implications for the Region
Introduction Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Ranking Member Deutch, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for inviting me to testify today about Iran&rs...
Congressional Testimonies
Egypt’s Islamists Will Rise Again
Fifty years ago, the historian Elizabeth Monroe published a beautifully written book with a dismissive title, "Britain's Moment in the Middle East, 1914-1956." She captured well the British...
Op-eds
Black Swans, Icebergs and Benghazi
‘Humans are great at self-delusion,” the polymathic philosopher Nassim Nicholas Taleb has observed. I’m confident he’d agree that the humans who populate the foreign-polic...
Op-eds
EU Moving Toward Ban of Hezbollah Military Wing
Co-authored by Jonny Paul The European Union has moved toward a consensus on outlawing the armed wing of Hezbollah, with its inclusion on the EU terror list slated to take place...
Op-eds
The BDS Movement Against Israel has Accomplished Less Than Nothing
The student union at York University in Toronto has voted...
Op-eds
Princeton’s Iranian Agent of Influence
The cautionary tale of Seyed Hossein Mousavian
Op-eds
Why are Some Canadian Sikhs Expressing Solidarity with an Unrepentant Terrorist?
Today, Indian politicians stayed the execution...
Op-eds
The Stories Ex-Gitmo Detainees Tell
Ten years ago this week, the U.S. government opened the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba detention facility. And three years ago this month, shortly after his inauguration, President Barack Obama ordered Gua...
Op-eds
How Biden Gets it Wrong (Again) in Newsweek
When Barack Obama selected Joe Biden to be his running mate in 2008, the media lauded the decision as the perfect choice to beef up a ticket in need of foreign policy credentials. Announcing his...
Op-eds
Using Stronger Sanctions to Increase Negotiating Leverage With Iran
Six days after his inauguration, President Barack Obama declared that “if countries like Iran are willing to unclench their fist, they will find an extended hand from us.” Over the 10...