Obama Tries to Pin his Syria Policy on Trump
Talking to reporters in Germany on Thursday, President Barack Obama expressed the ho...
Steven Simon
How the Syria Echo Chamber Works
Over the past five-and-a-half years, the Obama White House has used the Syria echo chamber it created in the American press and on social media to defend and advance the...
Op-eds
Obama’s Syria Policy Striptease
America’s settled policy of standing by while half a million Syrians have been killed, millions have become refugees, and large swaths of their country have been re...
Op-eds
CIA Bides its Time
The CIA’s Directorate of Operations doesn’t have an acute memory. But it does have durable institutional sentiments. So here’s a guess: In a few years, few operatives in the cla...
Op-eds
Successes and Failures of the U.S. and NATO Intervention in Libya
Download the full written testimony here (PDF). Ch...
Congressional Testimonies
Obama’s Way of War
Is Barack Obama a warrior president? Not in the British tradition, of course, which gave us Winston Churchill, with his crazy cavalry charge against Sudanese spears, or the more cerebral Harold M...
Op-eds
The New McCarthyism
THE MEDIA has been quick to lionize Mary McCarthy, the recently fired 61-year-old CIA analyst who allegedly leaked classified information to the Washington Post's Dana Priest. According to s...
Op-eds
Hezbollah Is Not The IRA
Islamist groups have invited a whole set of analogies purportedly aimed at better explaining them and how best to deal with them. One such analogy that has gained currency in recent years is the...
Op-eds
Beyond Terrorism
‘Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Koran is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope." This is the battle cry of Hizb al-Ikhwan al-Musli...
Op-eds
Selling Out Moderate Islam
Washington's misbegotten campaign to be loved in the Middle East.