A darker shade of transparency
Not long ago, Barack Obama famously pledged to run the "most transparent administration in history." Yet while some Americans may...
Norman Podhoretz receives the Center’s Mightier Pen Award
On Tuesday, December 15 in New York City's legendary ‘21' Club, the Center for Security Policy honored Norman Podhoretz with...
Fighting the new blood libel
How do Israeli Jews deal with the shocking return of the European blood libel? So far the most effective response...
START over
Amidst the late night machinations and parliamentary skullduggery that now passes for legislative process in what was once rightly known...
Douglas Feith: Nuclear deterrence & disarmament delusions
Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith addressed the Center for Security Policy's National Security Group on Capitol Hill...
Reconsidering the Suez Campaign
It is hard to seize the initiative. The consequences of acting are frightening. It is always better to let others go first....
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...
Pro-Iranian Chavista Daniel Ortega overturns term limits
In recent years, we have been witnessing a pattern in Latin America, where Presidents are elected democratically and then abuse...
Know when to hold them
So what happens if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 masterminds, whose trials Attorney General Eric Holder has decided will...
War courts for war criminals
A ticking political time bomb has been largely obscured by official Washington's preoccupation with screwing up our health care system:...
Legislators who’ve changed their position on Gitmo
Members first voted on language in the Homeland Security Appropriations bill that would have prohibited Gitmo inmates from being transferred...
Narcissists and madmen
Perhaps when the history of our times is written, ours will be called The Era of Narcissistic Catechisms. To understand...
How to lose a war
If a picture is worth a thousand words, perhaps the picture of President Obama that did not get taken during...
Countering Beijing’s new weapon
According to the incoming commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, Adm. Robert F. Willard, "In the past decade or so,...
Lebanon’s legacy in Afghanistan
The day after US President Barack Obama announced that he was deploying additional US forces to Afghanistan, an event occurred...