Jan 27, 2012
As the electoral process moves forward in the primaries and the debates intertwine with state caucuses and elections, foreign policy and national security items are discussed seriously among voters as part of the package their preferred candidate for the Republican...
Dec 27, 2011
As I was watching the carriage transporting the late Václav Havel, the first president of free post-Communist Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic, into the Prague Castle I was sobered and deeply moved.
Having been a witness to major world changes...
Dec 6, 2011
When the young Tunisian burned himself in protest against authoritarian oppression and lack of economic justice, triggering massive demonstrations in this small North African country, commentators hesitated to coin the movement as an Arab Spring.
It took months, and...
Nov 7, 2011
My first book, The Iranian Islamic Revolution, published way back in 1986, dealt with the historicity of the 1979 Khomeinist Revolution in Iran. In it, I exposed the Khomeinist regime s long-term ambitions and revisionist account of events that led to the Shah s overthrow...
Oct 12, 2011
For the Iranian regime to attempt a terror strike on American soil, and particularly in Washington D.C., including a high-profile assassination and blowing up of two important Middle Eastern embassies, means that the Ayatollahs have crossed the conventional red line...
Oct 11, 2011
The credibility of the Arab Spring took a bloody hit on Sunday, Oct. 9, when Egyptian army forces shot dead more than 30 Christian Copts and wounded scores of them. In addition, the action by the army was paralleled by armed men, described as Salafi jihadists by Coptic...
Oct 4, 2011
Imam Anwar al Awlaki held two important positions in the cobweb of international Jihadi terror. First, he was one of the emerging younger leaders of al-Qaida after the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Out of Yemen, from which his family originates, he had built a network of...
Sep 9, 2011
A decade after the jihadi strikes against America s military and financial centers at the hands of al-Qaida, the question remains: Have we won the war?
In the ongoing, debate, we see two camps. One stating that we were defeating the enemy until Washington changed...