The Power-Hungry vs. the War-Weary
Russia’s Vladimir Putin, seething over the collapse of the Soviet Empire, wants to become the hegemon of Eurasia — at least. Iran’s Ali Khamenei, outraged by the...
Russia’s Vladimir Putin, seething over the collapse of the Soviet Empire, wants to become the hegemon of Eurasia — at least. Iran’s Ali Khamenei, outraged by the...
Although one could perhaps be forgiven for not realising it given the violence that ravages our world, one of international law’s cardinal principles is the general prohibition of, to quote...
Bill C-10, the government's controversial omnibus crime bill, recently passed...
Killing Muammar Qaddafi wasn’t easy. What President Obama said would take days wound up taking eight months. At first the administration did not seem to understand that NATO’s objecti...
Berlin — As Moammar Qaddafi’s 42-year tyranny comes to an end, the transitional government faces enormous challenges in establishing democratic institutions and eradicating t...
When US President Barack Obama offered his rationale for supporting the UN-imposed no-fly zone over Libyan skies, he said: "We knew that if we waited one more day, Benghazi [...] could suffer a m...
When US President Barack Obama offered his rationale for supporting the UN imposed no-fly zone over Libyan skies, he said that "We knew that if we waited one more day, Benghazi - a city nea...
President Barack Obama's response to the spread of unrest across the Middle East has been an unpredictable combination of neutrality (Tunisia), reluctant involvement (Egypt), and force...
Sometime in the next few months, Col. Moammar Gaddafi was meant to turn over the remaining mustard gas he still has in stock. He had agreed to relinquish his weapons of mass destruction to the We...
Why are British planes bombing Libya? Humanitarian intervention - that's the answer. Consider this: until two months ago, Libya was a new friend - and a textbook example of the kind...
‘The relationship has been moving in a good direction for a number of years now, and I think tonight does mark a new phase,” said Condoleezza Rice. President Bush’s secretary of...
It is not surprising to see Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi use any and all means, including the most savage violence, to hold onto power. Qaddafi is, after all, a terrorist. There was a...
Since our leaders evidently have no clue what to do in Libya, let’s give them a few ideas. The basic rules are easy: don’t do anything that is likely to make things worse, and you can...
It is no coincidence that the Hezbollah-dominated Lebanese government, a non-standing member of the U.N. Security Council and an Iranian subsidiary, sponsored a resolution last Friday conde...
By Dr. Walid Phares As President Obama was addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations, just before Libya's dictator Moammar Kadhafi called for the demise of the...
Should a veteran acolyte of Qaddafi's tyranny lead the General Assembly?
It's hard to have any sympathy for Charles Ghankay Taylor. During his murderous fourteen-year rampage through West Africa, the former Liberian president was responsible - according...
Tony Badran is a PhD candidate in Ancient Near Eastern studies at New York University. He is also a Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, with a particular focus on Lebanes...
Allowing Libyan tyrant Moammar Gadhafi to make a mockery of U.S. policy is not a good idea, especially not when the Bush administration has been talking Gadhafi up for the past 18 months as one o...
By: Amb. Richard Carlson, Barbara Newman, and William Cowan. A factor complicating the coalition mission of bringing stability to Iraq is the covert role played by Syria in fina...