The Death Spiral of the Islamic Republic
The hit on Soleimani was so well-organized, leading terrorists ran for the hills.
Michael Ledeen
Misery Doesn’t Cause Revolution
I keep watching the videos from Venezuela, hundreds of thousands of protesters calling for an end to the Chavez-Maduro era. And I ask myself, why is this manifestly failed regime still in p...
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Target practice and North Korea’s missiles
There is a way to slow down North Korea’s missile program and there is no need to launch any military attack on the Pyongyang regime. Right now there is growing worry about North K...
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Trump Administration Still Doesn’t Have an Iran Policy
The Trump administration, for once in harmony with Congress, is going to slap more sanctions on Iran. They stress this has nothing to do with the nuclear deal, but is rather in response to Tehran...
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War on Campus
Don’t look to college “leaders” to defend free speech and shut down the rioters. It doesn’t work that way. Universities almost always collapse in the face of student prote...
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Tyrants And Their Hollow States
Frankly, I’m surprised Erdogan had to settle for a photo-finish win at the wire. Not a great result for a would-be ...
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Tyrants And Their Hollow States
Frankly, I’m surprised Erdogan had to settle for a photo-finish win at the wire. Not a great result for a would-be ...
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Reincarnation
There’s a fascinating story in the weekend&...
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The Real War in ‘Syria’ and the Strategy for Long-Term Victory
Of course I loathe Assad. And of course I despise the Obamans for that phony red line and the subsequent retreat-and-bogus-Russian-deal. But just carrying out vengeance against Assad isn’t...
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Trump’s Great Iranian Opportunity
The great Ayatollah Hossein Boroujerdi is briefly out of prison, where he had been held in miserable conditions for a decade. He is one of those dissidents who are so beloved by the Iranian peopl...
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Iranian Kurds Join the Fight
Co-written by Jonathan Spyer The instability that has swept over the Middle East over the past half-decade has its winners and its losers. For the most part, the much-...
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Don’t Let Iran Off The Hook For Chemical/Biological Weapons
The Trump administration will need to be on its toes to enforce the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement—and stop the Islamic Republic’s developing chemical and biological weapons progra...
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Another American Revolution
Donald Trump’s electoral victory surprised no end of pundits, not just because the polls were so off-base, but also because they couldn’t imagine the American people turning against a...
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We’re Losing the War and We’re Paying for It
When the No Deal Deal was made with Iran, I said it was easy to understand: the Iranians would promise to be good, and we would pay for it. In the event, I was only half right. ...
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Obama to World: I failed, but it’s their fault
As my administration nears its conclusion, I want the citizens of the world to clearly understand what my mission was, why it failed, and the lessons I have learned. My mission was to un...
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The War Intensifies
Everyone’s talking about “ransom,” but it’s virtually impossible to find anyone who’s trying to figure out how to win the world war we’re facing. The two...
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Why Hasn’t ISIS Blown Up Rome?
At lunch the other day, a smart man asked me how come there hadn’t been terrorism in Italy, even though Islamic State keeps promising to attack the Vatican. You’ve undoubtedl...
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The Pope’s War
It’s not a religious war, according to His Holiness. Economic, yes. Political, sure. But not religious, because religious people want peace. That’s what he sai...
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Who’s Hillary’s Hacker And Why?
The Twitter crowd has devoted a lot of bandwith to the theory that the Wikileaks dump on the DNC is a Russian operation. They may well be right, although I wouldn’t take Joshua Micah...
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Top Intel Official: Al Qaeda Worked on WMD in Iran
Al Qaeda operatives based in Iran worked on chemical and biological weapons, according to a letter written to Osama bin Laden that is described in a new book by a top former U.S. intelligence off...