Post Archive
August 8, 2014
The Gaza War Has Changed the Way the World Talks About Hamas
Amid all the metrics commentators propose to determine “who won” Operation Protective Edge, one is staring everyone in the face: the international community’s attitude toward...
Is Putin’s Next Move Against Azerbaijan?
Azerbaijan is a key American ally. The only country to border both Iran and Russia, it has angered both with its consistent efforts to orient...
The Uncritical and Intemperate Partisans of the Boycott-Israel Movement
In a case that has roiled the academic community, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has rescinded an offer to Stephen Salaita, who had, for...
Explain Failures or Abandon Training Missions
The evaporation of the Iraqi army in Mosul earlier this summer, followed more recently by the failure of the Kurdistan Democratic Party’s peshmerga in northern...
We Now Know: Gaza Edition
The fog of war often means the first draft of history makes the greatest impact but needs to be corrected by later drafts. After the...
Action Against ISIS Still Needs a Strategy
The hardest thing for anyone to do--including a president of the United States--is to admit that he was wrong. Yet that is just what President...
Nixon Resigns
Saturday will mark the 40th anniversary of the only presidential resignation in American history, at the end of the country’s greatest scandal. Indeed, Watergate became the...
Exposing the UN’s Unreliable Data on Gaza Casualties
Okay, it’s official: Even the BBC now admits the UN has been essentially collaborating with a terrorist organization to libel Israel. Of course, the venerable...
Back the Syrian Peshmerga
With the recent victories of the Islamic State in Sinjar and other northern Iraqi towns, and the Islamist radicals' efforts to cleanse their region of...
Iraqi Sunnis Too Clever by Half
Last month, in the wake of the Sunni uprising in Iraq, I had the opportunity to meet with tribal representatives and former senior members of...