What if the Jihad Fails?
Napoleon famously preferred lucky generals to the most brilliant ones, and there is no doubt that luck plays an enormous role in life, whether through our own individual efforts or from earth-sha...
Michael Ledeen
The Iran Deal’s Slow Death
Back when the negotiations were still under way for The Deal between Iran and the P5+1, I accurately forecast the outcome would be a “No Deal Deal.” I described it this way:...
Op-eds
After Paris, We Need A Strategy To Fight Islamic Jihad
I do not know for sure who masterminded and organized the terrorist assault on Paris, although most evidence points to ISIS. We will probably know a lot more in a few days. Multiple attacks requi...
Op-eds
Yet Another American Hostage In Tehran
Siamak Namazi is in Evin Prison in Tehran, and on the face of it that’s very surprising. Why? Because he’s long been a friend and supporter of the regime that has incarcerated him. He...
Op-eds
Who’s Winning in Syria?
Who’s winning the Middle East war? It’s never an easy question to answer, even for the most skilled and informed analysts. Things rarely, very rarely, go the way we expect...
Op-eds
The New Axis Of Evil At War In Syria
The Iranian-Russian alliance now operating in Syria must fill Bashar Assad with great hope for his own survival. It has all the trappings of a carefully planned strategic assault on the enemies o...
Op-eds
We’re Losing The War, Do Something
What will it take to get pundits and pols to stop looking at the current crisis as a random collection of national and regional issues, rather than what it is: a global war? They ought to be able...
Op-eds
Analysis: Still Hope for Regime Change in Iran
To better understand the Islamic Republic of Iran, don’t turn straight away to the front page of the newspaper. Rather flip to the labor union and business sections and press. Growing worke...
Op-eds
The Pope of Montecristo
So Pope Francis, having delivered himself of the usual Jesuit diatribe against capitalism and warned us all about rising global temperatures, has arrived in Cuba. That unhappy island inhabi...
Op-eds
Still Hope for Regime Change in Iran
To better understand tha Islamic Republic of Iran, don’t turn straight away to the front page of the newspaper. Rather flip to the labor union and business sections and press. Growing worke...
Op-eds
The Iranian Attack Against Me, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal
I recently commented on Senator Charles Schumer’s rejection of the Iran deal. My remarks, which appeared here August 9th, included a reference to an exchange of messages between the Obama A...
Op-eds
Radical Islam and the Culture War
What are we to do with radical Islam? Ever since 9/11, Western leaders have insisted that we are "not at war with Islam," have sometimes said that "Islam is a religion of peace" and bent over in...
Op-eds
Ramadi Falls–And Iran Will Come To The Rescue?
Experts most everywhere agree that the fall of Ramadi to Islamic State is a disaster. It solidifies IS control over a major east-west route from Ramadi (75-100 miles from Baghdad) to deep into Sy...
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Analysis: To confront Iran’s jingoism and domestic repression, change its regime
The self-immolation death of an Iranian Arab last week in the province of Khuzestan offers a window onto the court of a neglected alternative to an Iran on the brink of nuclear weapons breakout:...
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Missiles and Menaces in an Iran-Russia-North Korea Alliance
At the beginning of February, Iran sent a spy satellite into orbit, the first time it had done so in three years. As you'd expect, they bragged about it, ...
Op-eds
Americans as Hostages and Targets
There are several American hostages in Iran, and the Tehran regime uses them very cruelly and relentlessly in its dealings with the U.S. government, as The Washington Post angr...
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Crowds or Mobs, Demonstrations or Riots
When is a demonstration a riot? When you disapprove. Crowds demonstrate and mobs riot. Got it? Thus, those big assemblages of protesters in the streets of Hong Kong are crowds for most W...
Op-eds
The Italian Exception: Defeating the Anti-Semites
The headlines from Europe are all grim. Synagogues assaulted in France, Jews murdered at the Jewish Museum in Brussels and savagely beaten in the streets of Great Britain and Scandinavia, mobs of...
Op-eds
The Obama-Khamenei Alliance
Never mind the negotiations with Iran over the Islamic Republic's nuclear weapons program. Far more urgent developments are afoot. While the foreign ministers were busily counting how many c...
Op-eds
What We Don’t Know, and Why
There's a lot we don't know, but ignorance is no obstacle to strong convictions. Ignorance comes to us easily, in part because lots of things are unknowa...