Max Boot

June 23, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Swiss miss

Biden blew a chance for a win in his meeting with Putin

January 30, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

Iran and Diplomacy vs. Engagement

‘Iran’s rulers are not open to engagement no matter what mix of carrots and sticks are offered.” Peter Beinart, a contributing editor of The Atlantic, attributed that r...

April 24, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

WMD Deterrence in Syria

There is one more lesson to draw from Israeli revelations about Syria’s...

November 14, 2012 | Lee Smith Tablet |

Losing Petraeus, Losing Iran

The general was one of few who understood that Iran was at war with the US, and no bargain could be struck

July 24, 2012 | |

The Morality of Suicide Bombings

The bombing last week in Damascus that killed Syrian Defense Minister Daoud Rajiha, internal security chief Hafez Makhlouf, and Deputy Defense Minister Asef Shawkat (who also happened to be the b...

July 23, 2012 | FPI/FDD |

Policy Experts Urge President Obama to Take Immediate Action to Establish Safe Zones in Syria

Washington, D.C.—A bipartisan group of sixty-two foreign policy experts and former U.S. government officials signed an open letter today urging President Obama to adopt a strategy that will...

May 6, 2012 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Obama’s Way of War

Is Barack Obama a warrior president? Not in the British tradition, of course, which gave us Winston Churchill, with his crazy cavalry charge against Sudanese spears, or the more cerebral Harold M...

February 17, 2012 | FPI/FDD |

Foreign Policy Experts Urge President Obama to Take Immediate Action in Syria

Foreign Poli...

January 30, 2012 | Bill Roggio, Thomas Joscelyn

Strategic Retreat

The war on terror is far from over. Why are we coming home?

December 19, 2011 | FPI/FDD |

Foreign Policy Experts Urge President Obama to Take Action Against Assad

Foreign Poli...

August 9, 2011 |

The SEAL Tragedy

In the WSJ, Max Boot has an insightful, and at times moving, account of the failed mission this weeken...

October 27, 2010 |

Our 9/11 War Dead Are Not ‘Shaheeds’

Out of respect for our men and women in harm's way, I have tried, since an exchange...

April 8, 2010 | |

Petraeus’s Israel Problem

Max Boot is a good historian. On Islam, I often disagree with him, finding in his work the wishful thinking common among Islamic Democracy Project enthusiasts. Still, he is thoughtful and civil,...

June 4, 2009 | Clifford D. May |

Obama Derangement Syndrome?

Long afflicted with Bush Derangement Syndrome, Rall has his knickers in a knot now because he thinks Obama has a plan for "preventive detentions." He claims to have seen "reports in U.S. state-co...

July 24, 2008 | Scripps Howard News Service

Más allá de la complacencia

  Pero como Andrew McCarthy aclara en sus magníficas memorias, Willful Blindness (Ceguera Voluntaria), la modorra persiste; demasiada gente aún no admite que &l...

July 23, 2008 | Clifford D. May Scripps Howard News Service

Beyond Complacency: The anti-anti-terrorists push for unilateral disarmament

It’s often said that the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 were a “wake-up call’ – that they forced both the political class and the public to seriously (if belatedly) address a p...

February 1, 2005 | |

Make Up Your Mind

The Left's national-security schizophrenia.