The Somali Radicals Must Be Destroyed!
Convinced that the peace of the Mediterranean world and security of the Roman Senate and People depended on the final elimination of the threat posed by Carthage – which many of his contemp...
Kofi Annan
The Courtier to Annan
Not so long ago, Kofi Annan was up to his ears in the Oil for Food scandal, and his legacy as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations was on its way down the drain. He was ducking que...
Op-eds
The Rainy Season’s Over; Killing Can Commence
The rainy season has just ended in northwestern Sudan—now killing can recommence in earnest. Two months ago, we warned that inaction in Darfur was tantamount to a "countdown to genocide" wi...
Op-eds
Krauthammer, Kennedy & Korea
With characteristic sagacity last Friday, Charles Krauthammer invoked President Kennedy's Cuban-missile-crisis strategy as a model for dealing with North Korea's most recent nuclear ant...
Op-eds
The New Secretary General
On Friday, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon was elected to be the new Secretary-General of the United Nations, by “acclamation” in the General Assembly. The U.S. seemed pleas...
Op-eds
Going South
Whatever else can be said of the United Nations, it is remarkably predictable. Later this fall the organization will anoint a successor to Secretary-General Kofi Annan who is due to step down aft...
Op-eds
After Annan
Authored by Velykhan Velshi Kofi Annan's tenure as UN Secretary General will finish at the end of the year. His legacy will be one of scandal and failure. The UN peacekeepi...
Op-eds
Will the UN Pick Another Crook?
Authored by Alykhan Velshi Kofi Annan's tenure as UN Secretary General will finish at the end of the year. His legacy will be one of scandal and failure. The UN peacekeepin...
Op-eds
Symposium on United Nations
President Bush said so many of the right words. He was so right to address some of those words not to the assembled "excellencies" of the General Assembly, but directly to the people of Iraq, Afg...
Op-eds
Down on the Farms
As we mark the one-month anniversary of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, the best that can be said is that ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah terrorists who carved a state...
Op-eds
About that Mercedes
Remember Kojo Annan's Mercedes? The car that reporters kept asking about last year, finally sending Kofi Annan into a temper tantrum at a televised press conference? I'm talking of cour...
Op-eds
Symposium: 9/11: Five Years Later
On this fifth anniversary of 9/11, Frontpage Symposium has assembled a distinguished panel to discuss the significance of that terror attack, what we have done right and wrong since then, a...
Op-eds
Countdown to Genocide
The final countdown for Darfur looms. Back in April, in a widely commented piece on TCS, we warned both that the impending Darfur crisis was...
Op-eds
Excess Baggage
Despite today's United Nations deadline for Iran to give up its nuclear bomb program, Iran has done no such thing. The next diplomatic move is supposed to be for the U.N. to impose sanctions...
Op-eds
Europe’s Munich Moment
In March 2003, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the current French Prime minister, Dominique de Villepin -- then his country's foreign minister -- condemned the Coalition of the Willin...
Op-eds
Crowning of Nasrallah? – Annan’s Diplomacy Harms the Cause of Peace
BRACE YOURSELF. In the United Nations-brokered farce known as the "cessation of hostilities in Lebanon," we may now be heading for the moment in which Secretary General Kofi Annan jets to Beirut...
Op-eds
Turtle Bay Does Beirut
Brace yourself. In the United Nations-brokered farce known as the “cessation of hostilities in Lebanon,” we may now be heading for the moment in which Secretary-General Kofi Annan jet...
Op-eds
Who Wins?
In the wake of Friday night's vote on a ceasefire resolution at the United Nations on the crisis in the Middle East, are there any winners in the thirty-some days' war? National Review...
Op-eds
If Turtle Bay Had a Moral Compass…
It's happy hour at the United Nations. After four weeks of Hezbollah-provoked war in Israel and Lebanon, accompanied by much diplomatic hand-wringing, the U.N. Security Council met Friday ev...
Op-eds
Terrorism? What’s That?
Among the many reasons to beware the United Nations as a vehicle for peace in Israel, Lebanon, or any other part of the globe now threatened by Islamic terrorists, there is one item so obvious th...