Middle East
Ehud Olmert’s ‘Convergence’ Plan
By Caroline B. Glick. Ms. Glick is the Center for Security Policy's Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs. Israel's incoming...
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...
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...