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July 6, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

Winning the Peace: America is Not on the Road to Victory Yet

On a conventional battlefield, America is second to none. Slowly and painfully, we also are mastering the skills necessary to win a low-intensity but high-anxiety war against a shadow army of ins...

June 4, 2004 | Knight-Ridder

Post-World War II Lessons Show Building Iraqi Democracy is Vital

Authored by Andrew Apostolou     This weekend, hundreds of thousands will pay tribute at the scores of memorials in Normandy to those who in June 1944 landed on the beache...

June 1, 2004 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

A Justifiable, Necessary and Winnable War

Anti-war activists have been feeling their oats. Pro-liberation advocates have been feeling woozy. So let's get back to basics, and ask three simple questions, to remind ourselves how we got...

March 21, 2004 | National Review Online

An Iraq to be Proud of

Authored by Andrew Apostolou    One year after Coalition forces began the liberation of Iraq, there is a rush to judge how the U.S.-led project of creating a democratic society...

January 14, 2004 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service |

The Imperfect Storm: Anti-war Warriors Cloud Recent History

President Bush has made his share of enemies – political, ideological, personal and stylistic. These opponents now appear to have joined together in an ad hoc alliance bent on proving that...

December 18, 2003 | Clifford D. May Front Page Magazine

Symposium: Snatching Saddam

Saddam has been captured. What does this development signify for the Iraq war and the War on Terror? Frontpage Symposium explores the issue with three distinguished guests: James Woolsey, directo...

November 11, 2003 | Clifford D. May National Review Online |

The Right to Exist

Michael Lerner and Cornel West regard themselves as brave because they “dare” to question “America’s almost blind support for Ariel Sharon’s government.”...

October 1, 2003 | Clifford D. May

The WMD Mystery

The question is not whether Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. The mystery is: What did he do with them? We should have some insights soon: David Kay and his Iraq Survey Gro...

July 23, 2003 | Clifford D. May |

Kofi Talk

Among Europe's many criticisms of America is now this: We refuse to relinquish substantial authority in Iraq to the United Nations. Until and unless we do, we're being told, don't...

April 20, 2003 | Clifford D. May |

Mogadishu, Mon Amour

American and European intellectual elites were not moved to action when 182,000 Kurds - a people who trace their history back more than 3,000 years - were slaughtered by Saddam Hussein....