OPINION MARCH 31, 2010 By DANIELLE PLETKA Has the U.S. abandoned plans to target the Iranian regime’s access to banking and credit and to isolate Iranian air and shipping transport? While recent reports to that effect have been strenuously denied by the administration, it has become clear that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s promise of […]
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OPINION MARCH 29, 2010 By RONEN BERGMAN This May, Israel will celebrate its 62nd Independence Day. And barring the unexpected, the country will have good reason to celebrate. This will have been the safest year in a decade and a half for Israeli civilians—the year with the fewest fatalities in acts of war or terror.
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MARCH 23, 2010 By ALAN M. DERSHOWITZ The gravest threat faced by the world today is a nuclear-armed Iran. Of all the nations capable of producing nuclear weapons, Iran is the only one that might use them to attack an enemy. There are several ways in which Iran could use nuclear weapons. The first is
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The Shah of Iran wasn’t supposed to fall in the late 1970’s and Iraq’s WMD were supposed to be a ‘slam dunk’. How did our intelligence community get it so wrong? FEBRUARY 25, 2010 The Slippery Nature of Secrets – ‘Why Intelligence Fails’ A Book Review By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD When we hear the sound
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With Iran and Venezuela in political, economic and military cahoots, Tehran has gained a foothold in South American. Now Nicaragua is at risk of being added to the list of authoritarian governments aligned with Venezuela and by association, its Islamic ally. WSJ.com – Opinion: The Ortega-Chavez Axis*
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The contest for leadership in the Muslim world. BY Hillel Fradkin and Lewis Libby February 22, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 22 For nearly a century, the West has seen the Muslim world primarily through the prism of the Arab states that stretch from North Africa to the Persian Gulf. Born of decaying empires, these states
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OPINION: GLOBAL VIEW FEBRUARY 2, 2010 Seven Myths About Iran By BRET STEPHENS ‘We have been trying to negotiate [with the Iranians] for five, six years. We’ve tried everything. We have met every Iranian. We have tried to open every possible channel. We’ve had new ideas and the result is this: nothing.” Thus did a
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