Extremism and fragile states
Last year, Congress asked the United States Institute of Peace, a government-funded think tank, to develop “a comprehensive plan to prevent the underlying causes of extremism in fragile states in th...
Lee Hamilton
Early Warnings Ignored
September 11: A Decade Later
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Turkey’s Hollow Prize
It's time Congress pulled the plug on Washington's taxpayer-subsidized Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, which has turned itself into a global joke. With Turkey's l...
Op-eds
The Appeasers
Winston Churchill: “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
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...
Op-eds
Symposium: Iraq Study Group Report
The cover of the Iraq Study Group report is red, white, and blue. The title sounds promising: “The Way Forward — A New Approach.” It’s pretty much downhill from there....
Op-eds
Give Them Something to Talk About
The controversy over whether the U.S. should talk with Iran and Syria begs the question: What would we say? More specifically, what are we willing to offer in exchange for cooperation -- and what...
Op-eds
It’s Time to Investigate Able Danger and the 9/11 Commission
Crucial questions have gone unanswered too long.
Op-eds
An Incomplete Investigation
It was interesting to hear from the 9/11 Commission again on Tuesday. This self-perpetuating and privately funded group of lobbyists and lawyers has recently opined on hurricanes, nuclear weapons...
Op-eds
Oversee? More Like Overlook
"We want to understand what went wrong," claims Sept. 11 commission Vice Chairman Lee H. Hamilton. Really? Then why, after conducting numerous open hearings at which its members subjected the FBI...