True Fanatic
President Ahmadinejad's speech before the UN General Assembly in September was a towering diplomatic dud. Instead of assuaging the prim...
Middle East
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...
‘The Oslo Syndrome’
Decision Brief No. 05-D 25 2005-05-31 (Washington, D.C.): Last week, the President of the United States effusively praised Mahmoud Abbas,...
‘Whose partner is Abu Mazen?’
On the eve of President Bush's White House meeting today with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the Center for Security Policy...
Tehran’s Terror Master
by Patrick Devenny Early on the morning of March 16th, 1984, William Buckley left for work at the American embassy...
The Eurofaustians
Decision Brief No. 05-D 12 2005-03-14 (Washington, D.C.): "The advance of hope in the Middle East...requires new thinking in...
Cut aid to Egypt
(Washington, D.C.): In his State of the Union address, President Bush suggested that Egypt "can now show the way toward...
A world without Israel
In the most recent edition of Foreign Policy, Josef Joffe invites us to imagine that Israel never existed, asking: "Would...