Hillary Clinton, Neocon?
With terror in Brussels swamping the news cycle last week, speeches delivered to AIPAC’s Policy Conference by four leading U.S. presidential candidates,&n...
Neoconservatism
Give Paul Ryan His Foreign Policy Due
Eager to discredit Paul Ryan, liberals can’t decide whether to caricature the Republican vice presidential nomine...
Op-eds
From Democracy to Sharia
The ‘Arab Spring’ shows that democratic process is useless without democratic culture.
Op-eds
Seymour Hersh’s ‘Justice’
Writing at BuzzFeed, my colleague James Kirchick informs readers...
Op-eds
Pat Buchanan and His Enablers
Last week, MSNBC fired Pat Buchanan following a four-month suspension. The proximate cause of his dismissal was the publishing of his latest book, Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive...
Op-eds
La Larga Guerra
Hace 5 años este mes, las tropas americanas liberaron el Irak de Sadam Hussein. Y luego vino lo difícil. La inteligencia americana se había equivocado respecto al ar...
Op-eds
What Have We Learned From Iraq?
President Obama’s speech tonight announcing the end of combat activities in Iraq will be greeted with a national sigh of relief rather than a flag-waving hurrah. And it is driven more by El...
Op-eds
Jim Lobe, ‘Neoconservatives,’ and War on Iran
Jim Lobe has probably devoted most of his time for the past decade “exposing” what he takes to be the enormous and malevolent influence of “neoconservatives” on American f...
Op-eds
Where Are the Muslim Moderates?
In 1956, Nikita Khrushchev addressed a closed session of the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party. For nearly four hours, he spoke about the unspeakable: the crimes of his predecessor, Sov...
Op-eds
Muscular Idealism
You can't fight terrorism without fighting terrorists. You have to eliminate both those who load cars with explosives and those who tell them where to go and whom to kill. Most people grasp...