A New Frontier of Jihadi Islam?
Is Somalia rapidly turning into this years Afghanistan, with the Islamic Courts in the role of the Taliban and Ethiopia as the unilateral invader?
Israel Will Create More Terrorists Than It Kills
This op-ed ran in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel on July 22, 2006.
Gaza and Lebanon: Connecting the Dots
Israel starts a war to gain greater security while the United States backs an attack against two nascent democracies to promote democracy in the Middle East.
Dropping Musharraf?
Pakistan has been a key U.S. ally on counter-terrorism. But it looks like Musharaff may no longer be our man in Pakistan.
Not terrorism–China drives up U.S. military spending
It’s essential that lawmakers and members of the public question the Pentagon’s justifications — and reject proposals that would have the effect of triggering a new Cold War, one with the People’s Republic of China.
Iraq and the Problem of Terrorism
As long as the social and economic conditions remain along with 138,000 U.S. troops, there will be a movement in Iraq and throughout the Arab world that will oppose the U.S., and the spectrum of that opposition will be one that includes those who commit acts of terrorism.
Addressing the Nuclear Proliferation Challenge: Cooperation is Not Capitulation
The director of the Arms Control Association debates a Fellow of the Coalition for a Realistic Foreign Policy on the way out of the current crisis in nuclear arms control.
Reflections on U.S. Double Standard on Terrorism
A Cuban expatriate has forced the administration to decide on terrorist criteria: “acceptable” acts of terrorism carried out against Cuba versus “unacceptable” ones undertaken against the United States and its allies.
A Forensic Anatomy of the Strategy for ‘Victory’
Has the President now given a definition of victory in Iraq?
Torture Degrades Us All
Arguments against torture are not based on alarmism, moral absolutism, or rhetoric. Torture irreparably damages human dignity, devalues human life, and corrupts the institutions of our democracy.
Power Trip: U.S. Unilateralism and Global Strategy After September 11
Leading progress experts provide ways in which we can move the country back in the right direction.
Trading Liberty for Security after September 11
What we have done since September 11 is not to make the hard choice of choosing which of our liberties we are willing to forego, but rather to sacrifice their libertiesthose of immigrants, and especially of Arab and Muslim immigrantsfor the purported security of the rest of us.
The Arrogance of Power
Former Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee J. William Fulbright’s observations and warnings appear deeply relevant to the United States under George W. Bush, particularly in the wake of the publication last week of the administration’s sweeping National Security Strategy of the United States of America and its request that Congress authorize a war resolution arguably as broad and as unilateral as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution approved in the early stages of the Vietnam War.
The Prisoner as Message
The United States’ recent stance on the case of Saadeddin Ibrahim is the first time since the signing of the Camp David Accords 25 years ago that America has made its aid for Egypt conditional upon a human rights issue.
No Thank You, Mr. President
The U.S. is not doing us any favors–it is endangering us for its own aggressive interests as a financial and military superpower.