The disengagement delusion
Decision Brief No. 06-D 16 2006-03-27 (Washington , D.C.): Today, even more than is usually the case, Israel is...
Middle East
What if we lose?
Three years after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq swept away the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, eroding public support for...
Islamists’ creeping coup in Turkey
Decision Brief No. 06-D 14 2006-03-13 (Washington, D.C.): Arguably, among the most pressing questions of our time...
Farewell to arms control
Decision Brief No. 06-D 11 2006-03-06 (Washington , D.C.): The deal struck last week by President Bush and...
Soul-trying times
Decision Brief No. 06-D 10 2006-03-01 (Washington, D.C.): Recent headlines call to mind a notable turn of phrase...
Sharon’s ‘place in history’
Historians know that it is impossible accurately to assess a departed leader's legacy until after many years have passed, let...
True Fanatic
President Ahmadinejad's speech before the UN General Assembly in September was a towering diplomatic dud. Instead of assuaging the prim...
The winning alternative
Decision Brief No. 05-D 60 2005-11-21 (Washington, D.C.): Call it the Week that Was. In the course of four days,...
Creeping defeatism
To its discredit, the United States Senate today approved an ill-advised -- and possibly disastrous -- amendment to the annual...
Our war with Iran
Decision Brief No. 05-D 55 2005-10-31 (Washington, D.C.): On October 26th, the new president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, made international...
The Myth of the Sunni Diehard
By Patrick Devenny The term “die-hard” entered overall American military and government parlance soon after the fall of Baghdad. Used...
No to Islamist Turkey
Decision Brief No. 05-D 49 2005-09-26 (Washington, D.C.): On October 3, representatives of the European Union and the Turkish government...
See no evil?
The leaking earlier this month of a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) projection that Iran is a decade away from obtaining...
Poster child for surrender
Decision Brief No. 05-D 39 2005-08-15 Cindy Sheehan is the mother of a fallen soldier, Casey Sheehan, a man who volunteered...
Mugged liberal
In announcing last week a sweeping crackdown in Britain on the "evil ideology" of coming to be known as Islamofascism,...
The Jewish state-icide
Decision Brief No. 05-D 33 2005-07-11 (Washington, D.C.): Suddenly, the world is seized with the danger of ignoring the Islamofascists...