Nick Berg

Cry Islamophobia!

We Americans should be ashamed! What an intolerant, bigoted, hateful lot we are! Or so we are being told by our political and media elites. Lawrence Wright, in The New Yorker – yes, The New...

Religion of Peace?

Islam is quintessentially tolerant. Its adherents are hospitable to liberty, equality, and pluralism, the rudiments of modern democracy. Those committing terror in its name are heretics — a...

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...

Evidence Supports That Hussein Had Strong Links With Terrorists

The brutal beheading of American Nick Berg in Iraq should refocus our attention on Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism. While some continue to claim that Hussein did not back terror, many be...

Victory, Stalemate or Defeat? That’s the Real Debate

In World War II, Americans sought victory. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill would accept nothing less than the unconditional surrender of the totalitarian regimes against which th...

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi

Stakes in Iraq Too High to Back Down

Nothing threatens the liberal agenda more than failure in the war in Iraq. Those who care about civil liberties, peace and humanitarian causes undermine their own goals unless they exercise restr...

Un-American Activities? It’s Not the Passport That Molds the Character

The abuses at Abu Ghraib prison, President Bush said, do not represent the America he knows.  Sen. Joe Lieberman called what took place there "un-American." They're right, of c...

The Media’s Double Standard on Iraq Prison Abuse

For three weeks, the media has bombarded us with a pornographic orgy of lurid photos and stories of Iraqi prisoner abuse and humiliation. It has been almost impossible to avoid seeing the same di...

A Winnable War – If Americans Don’t Succumb to Defeatism

In August of 1944, Charles de Gaulle led a victory parade down the Champs Elysees in Paris. What a clever idea that was. De Gaulle had never been elected anything. Early in the war he ha...