Uncle Sam

September 18, 2021 | Cleo Paskal |

Time for talks, cocktail parties is over, Quad needs action

‘I’ve heard a suggestion that India could invite and train with US Army forces in its mountains. Additionally, having Indian forces train with Australia in the Pacific would be useful. The harder you train together, the better we will fight, together.’

August 17, 2020 | Jonathan Schanzer, Tony Badran

Why we must steer clear of the Lebanon aid trap

It’s time for Uncle Sam to draw the line

February 3, 2014 | Jonathan Schanzer |

An Edge in the Desert

Weapons are pouring into the Middle East at an unprecedented rate. The Pentagon recently ...

January 14, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal

Der Spiegel’s America Problem

It has been a rough several weeks for Der Spiegel magazine — one of Germany’s most respected news outlets. First, the online Spiegel website published a pre...

June 5, 2012 | Jonathan Schanzer |

The Brothers Abbas

In the wake of the Arab Spring, U.S. leaders have promised to reverse the United States' long reliance on autocratic, unrepresentative leaders who enrich themselves at the ex...

October 20, 2011 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Global Brief

Terrorism and the Coming Decade

Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, US officials are speaking openly of Al Qaeda’s impending death. Defense secretary Leon Panetta declared in early July of this year that the US is “wi...

August 11, 2011 | Daveed Gartenstein-Ross

Why al-Qaeda is Winning

One of al-Qaeda's major goals has been satisfied: America's economy is far weaker now than it was 10 years ago. In 1999, not only was the U.S. economy strong, president Bill Clinton tho...

August 10, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

Borrowing From the Communists to Pay the Jihadis

Can you think of a worse policy?

June 15, 2011 | The New Atlantis

In Defense of Biofuels

On the world markets, the cost of a barrel of oil is, at this writing, over $120. In the United States, a gallon of gasoline now costs, on average, roughly $3.50. Even when adjusted for inflation...

June 15, 2011 |

OPEC Strangling American Economy

As oil prices continue to top $120 a barrel, it is time for Congress to take definitive action to break the OPEC cartel, which is taxing the United States into a depression. This year, w...

May 19, 2010 | Mark Dubowitz Forbes |

Ignore Turkey and Brazil: Iran Sanctions Are A Go

Just as the momentum behind U.S. energy sanctions against Iran shifted into high gear, Turkey and Brazil this week tried to downshift with a much ballyhooed nuclear-fuel swap deal. Could Iran&#03...

December 17, 2009 |

Gitmo Does Not Cause Terrorism

So we're going to shut down the detention center at the U.S. naval base on Guantanamo Bay and move the 200-plus terrorists detained there to a seldom-used civilian correctional center in Tho...

November 18, 2009 | Roll Call

It’s Time to Open the Fuel Market to Methanol

By: Dr. Robert Zubrin. Here's a fact that is worthy of lawmakers' attention: Methanol is currently selling internationally, without any subsidy, for $1 per gallon....

September 15, 2009 |

Canada Grows Up

Anti-Americanism has been Canada's defining intellectual ailment for generations. Not the fire-breathing hatred felt in some parts of the world, or even the elitist sneer directed westward f...

August 6, 2007 | American Thinker |

An Idealistic Alternative to the Saudi Arms Deal

The US Government is considering a new gigantic arms sale to the Saudi Kingdom, up to 20 billion dollars' worth of complex weaponry. The proposed package includes advanced satellite-guided b...

July 7, 2004 |

Update: Iran’s Nuclear Program


The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Backgrounder: Update: Iran's Nuclear Program

March 5, 2004 | FrontPageMagazine

Venezuela: The Next Cuba

As Venezuela’s embattled democratic opposition gears up for its planned August referendum against that South American nation's increasingly authoritarian ruler, President Hugo Chavez i...

April 16, 2003 |

But Who Was Protecting Iraqis From Human Shields?

.By Norah Vincent The ironies of war are always bitter, but few are rich and still fewer have ever been quite so rich as those that have enshrouded the farcical crusaders we have...

March 25, 2003 | Clifford D. May |

It’s Not Unilateralism

A political cartoon in Sunday's Washington Post shows the word "unilateralism" written in sand with Uncle Sam asking: "Do you think this would make a good foundation" for U.S. foreign policy...