What Erdoğan Has Wrought?
Seeking concessions to support Finland and Sweden joining NATO has done damage to Turkey’s standing in Europe and its long-term security interests.
Nicolas Sarkozy
Russia-Georgia 2008: a Blueprint for Russia-Ukraine 2022?
The Olympics were about to start in Beijing. Thousands of miles to the west, Russia was wrapping up a big military exercise in a border region. Across the border, women and children were evacuated from...
Insights
Weaponizing Refugees
German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Willkomenskultur (“Welcome culture”) refugee policy of last year has screeched to a grinding halt. Delivering an early December speech at her C...
Op-eds
Bystanders to genocide
It’s surprising how time slips away: Five years ago next month, President Obama proclaimed a “responsibility to act” when American “interests and values are at stake.&rdqu...
Op-eds
Why The U.S. Can’t Trust Iran And Its Nuclear Plans
The Obama Administration insists Iran has honored its inter...
Op-eds
Analysis: Amid Sweden Crisis, Are Europe’s Social Democratic Parties Shifting Against Israel
BERLIN - The diplomatic crisis between Israel and Sweden over the Scandinavian country’s recognition of “Palestine” as an independent state has brought a shift among European So...
Op-eds
Dare We Say It? The Mullahs Must Go
Sanctions and diplomacy have thus far failed to induce the Iranian regime to cease its nuclear weapons program. We shouldn’t be surprised by this. Top Iranian leaders, from Supreme Leader A...
Op-eds
Why did France Toss a Wrench in the Iran Nuclear Talks?
France blocked an agreement on Sunday to curb Iran’s nuclear program because, to cite French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, it did not want to be part of a con game that would allow Tehra...
Op-eds
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and Al Qaeda’s Senior Leadership
With recent events in Mali and Algeria, there is a notable uptick in interest in Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). One question commentators are asking is what the relationship is between A...
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Analysis: Al Qaeda Central Tightened Control Over Hostage Operations
Just last month, a spokesman for Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist suspected of executing the siege of an oil field in eastern Algeria, said that Belmokhtar continued to follo...
Op-eds
Dictators and Double Standards
As we watch the Syrian dictator struggle to survive, and the Egyptian would-be dictator run from an angry mob, and as we think back to the many fallen dictators of the recent past – Gorbach...
Op-eds
Obama’s Greater Middle East
It’s difficult to recommend a new approach to the Greater Middle East when the overarching philosophy of Barack Obama’s first term lingers on. In 2008 the Illinois senator sincerely b...
Op-eds
How Israel Lost Europe
How Benjamin Netanyahu lost friends and Mahmoud Abbas influenced people.
Op-eds
France Slated to Open First Gay Mosque
Muhammad Ludovic Lütfi Zahed, a gay French-Algerian man, is slated to open the first gay mosque at the end of November. The Turkish daily newspaper...
Op-eds
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s Ali Khamenei
Op-eds
Drachmail and the New Democrats
Can Germany's Angela Merkel hold fast against Greek brinksmanship?
Op-eds
The Failure to Admit Failure
A recent...
Op-eds
Auf Wiedersehen, Mon Ami
If the results of the latest elections are any indication, Europeans will elect anyone from communists to fascists if they promise to fight German Chancellor Angela Merkel over the financial aust...
Op-eds
The Deceits of Seymour Hersh
Last June, the distinguished American journalist Seymour Hersh published an article in the New Yorker entitled “Iran and the Bomb: How Real Is the Nuclear Threat?” His answer...
Op-eds
Damascus Dialogue Disaster
Watching Syrians get slaughtered by their own rulers and hearing the outraged statements from European leaders about Syrian atrocities one would think that Syria had it coming. Af...