Iraq Study Group

August 4, 2016 |

Clifford D. May Appointed to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on August 2, 2016 appointed Clifford D. May to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). “USCIRF...

November 8, 2010 |

Saudi Arabia’s Iraq Policy

Last week, the Saudi monarch King Abdullah extended a public invitation to Iraq’s president and all its parliamentary coalitions to come to Saudi Arabia in order to hold talks and reach an...

September 16, 2010 | Tony Badran |

Syrian Pretension And Reality in Iraq

Recent news reports about the arduous process of government formation in Iraq suggest that a deal may be in the works that would see incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki keep his post. If tru...

August 19, 2010 | Clifford D. May

Plan B

Back in 2007, those of us assigned as "expert advisors" to the Baker-Hamilton Commission were given a straightforward assignment: Come up with a plan to salvage the deteriorating situation in Ira...

March 10, 2009 | |

The Syria-Iran Alliance

In recent years, a number of erroneous notions have been re-injected into the policy discourse on the thirty-year old alliance between Syria and Iran. Statements such as "prying Syria away from I...

July 10, 2008 |

FDD President Clifford May Nominated to Serve on Broadcasting Board of Governors

FDD President Clifford May Nominated to Serve on Broadcasting Board of Governors Washington, D.C. (July 11, 2008) – Pre...

May 24, 2007 | |

Prisoner of Her Desires

IN the United States and in Europe, there is a widespread belief that the Bush administration has failed to engage Iran diplomatically. Among the advisers to the Iraq Study Group, of which I was...

February 4, 2007 |

What’s Our Iran Policy?

For lo these six-plus years, the Bush administration’s Iran policy has been incoherent. Axis of evil … but no regime change; incorrigible destabilizer supporting both Sunni and Shiit...

January 25, 2007 | Bill Cowan, Carlton Sherwood, Ralph Peters, Andy McCarthy FrontPage Magazine

Symposium: Iraq – The Challenge Ahead

FP: Bill Cowan, Carlton Sherwood, Jim Woolsey, Ralph Peters and Andy McCarthy, welcome to Frontpage Symposium.   I want to get your views on Saddam’s execution,...

January 9, 2007 |

Don’t Get Too Excited about the President’s Warning to Iran and Syria

Supporters of the war on terror — the global war against jihadists as distinguished from its isolated battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan — were surely heartened last night by Presid...

January 9, 2007 | Clifford D. May |

A Time for Middle East Peace

Resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict would be a wonderful thing. But the reality is that for more than a half century, every American president has attempted to find a magic formula that would bri...

January 4, 2007 | World Defense Review

Sweeping Up in Somalia

The reports continue to stream in of the hasty retreat of the militants of Somalia's Islamic Courts Union (ICU) in the face of an unexpectedly heavy offensive by Ethiopian air and land force...

January 2, 2007 |

Singing CAIR’s Tune, On Your Dime

On a weekend when the Bush administration achieved a new CAIR-friendly low, a prominent Democrat, following the lead of other prominent Democrats, distanced herself very publicly from the unsavor...

December 26, 2006 | |

Sending the Mullahs to Bed Without Supper

Having failed to bribe the Islamic Republic Iran out of its nuclear ambitions, the State Department is putting on its cheeriest face after Saturday’s Security Council resolution, imposing t...

December 20, 2006 | Clifford D. May |

Correspondence Course

How often have you heard journalists tell politicians they should admit their mistakes rather than equivocate or cover up? So when a major mainstream newspaper makes an error how is it handled?...

December 13, 2006 | Clifford D. May

A Plan for Iraq

I was privileged to serve as one of the “expert” advisors to the Iraq Study Group (ISG), along with former ambassadors and CIA operatives, retired military officers and distinguished...

December 13, 2006 | Clifford D. May

Un Plan para Irak

Tuve el privilegio de servir como uno de los “expertos” consejeros del Grupo de Estudio sobre Irak (Iraq Study Group, ISG por sus siglas en inglés) junto con ex embajadores y o...

December 8, 2006 | |

Negotiate with Iran?

The Iraq Study Group’s call for negotiations with Iran and Syria as “a way forward” has been widely derided. It is, abjectly, a return to September 10th thinking — to the...

December 6, 2006 |

Preliminary Thoughts

The Iraq Study Group’s approach seems consistent with what we’ve heard it would be: negotiate with Iran and Syria, pressure Israel for concessions in the hope that our enemies will be...

December 6, 2006 |

Fight the Real War

Iraq is disintegrating, and no one knows quite what to do. Some, like congressional Democrats, a growing chorus of disaf...