Saudi Women’s Spring
The rise of Islamist movements in the Arab Spring generally bodes poorly for women’s rights. But in Saudi Arabia, a country dominated by fundamentalist Islam, women are quietly driving a re...
Wahhabism
“Destroy All the Churches”
Is it not news when Saudi Arabia’s leading religious authority meets with a terrorist group and says that?
Op-eds
How to Stop Putting Gas in the Islamist Tank
Because enriching your enemy may not be a brilliant strategy.
Op-eds
Saudi Arabia Is Arming the Syrian Opposition
What could possibly go wrong?
Op-eds
Taking Damascus, One, Two, Three
Although Bashar al-Assad could still kill off the revolt against his tyranny, it seems increasingly unlikely. The rebellion today is far larger—geographically and numerically—than the...
Op-eds
‘Islam Is Islam, And That’s It’
The Arab Spring was not hijacked
Op-eds
Ron Paul: Wrong on the Taliban
Ron Paul knows even less about the history of our enemies than he does about their proper...
Op-eds
Militant Islamism, Islamism, Islam
A senior U.S. military advisor attempts their “disaggregation” – not entirely successfully.
Op-eds
Egyptian Liberals Against the Revolution
Free societies mean more than just free elections.
Op-eds
Ex-Gitmo Detainee Killed in Afghanistan
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) announced today that...
Op-eds
Disoriented
The state of too many Western leaders ten years after 9/11/01.
Op-eds
Saudi Arabia’s Terror Finance Problem
When al Qaeda attacked the United States on September 11, the response was swift. Saudi Arabia, home of the Wahhabi ideology that inspired 15 of the 19 hijackers, reacted somewhat more slowly....
Op-eds
Long, Hot Arab Summer
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross Commentary on the Arab Spring is much like the famous parable of the blind men learning about an elephant by touching it: Most observers glimpse...
Op-eds
Declaring War on the ‘Far Enemy’
On Aug. 23, 1996, Osama bin Laden, within a few months of arriving in Afghanistan, issued a manifesto proclaiming himself at war with the world's only remaining superpower. Bin Laden's...
Op-eds
Get Off Oil
Americans borrow $1 billion a day to import oil. This is a huge share of the U.S. trade deficit and a major factor in weakening the dollar. Hundreds of billions a year go to the Middle East and e...
Op-eds
How to End America’s Addiction to Oil
By using more electricity, natural gas and biofuels in our transportation fleet, we can quickly reduce our dependence on OPEC.
Op-eds
No Strings Attached: The Case for a Distributed Grid and a Low-Oil Future
Co-authored by Rachel Kleinfeld and Chelsea Sexton Energy policy affects every human activity, from the heating of food to the production of microchips. And because of this perv...
Op-eds
Winning the Peace: America is Not on the Road to Victory Yet
On a conventional battlefield, America is second to none. Slowly and painfully, we also are mastering the skills necessary to win a low-intensity but high-anxiety war against a shadow army of ins...
Op-eds
Iraq Then and Now: May 2004 Better than February 2003
As the aircraft landed on the carrier last year, I was personally amused by the idea that a U.S. president would perform such a feat. Regardless of the ensuing brouhaha, an American president in...
Op-eds
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...