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The Islamists Battle Plan

After centuries of warfare in which secrecy and espionage often made the difference between winning and losing, we should be grateful that our current enemy has published–and then repeatedly called attention to–his battle plan. The only problem? Our senior leadership

How Islam Creates Terrorists, and How to Defeat Them

There are three myths about terrorists that must be corrected if we are to battle terrorism effectively, according to Col. Matt Venhaus: that Muslim youth become terrorists for economic reasons; that they become terrorists primarily for religious reasons; and that

On Churchill's Birthday: Why Barack is No Winston

In the midst of WWII and the struggle against the Nazis, Winston Churchill made one of his most famous pronouncements: “You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: victory; victory at all costs, victory in spite

Musharraf: 'Are We to Be Abandoned Again?'

A defiant Pervez Musharraf questioned whether Pakistan will be “abandoned” by the U.S. and insisted his country has made no strategic mistakes in its participation in the war on terror. The former Pakistani president, in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 10

Obama's Foreign Policy: Iran Rising, U.S. Receding

President Obama’s major foreign policy initiatives–the “reset” with Russia, outreach to the Islamic world, and the end of combat operations in Iraq–have accomplished one undeniable achievement: they have brought Russia, Turkey, Iraq and Afghanistan closer to Iran. And just this

How Self-Loathing Became the West's Nazi Inheritance

Though moral relativism in the name of self-critiquing multiculturalism is often defended as a bulwark against Nazi-inspired atrocities, its elements are actually inherited from that which originally spawned Nazism. “Since Hitler was defeated in 1945,” the historian Sean McMeekin writes,

Secrets Found in Palestinian Social Media

In the summer of 2000, analysts and pollsters believed the Palestinian people were ready for peace. Yet Yasser Arafat walked away from the negotiating table at Camp David and two months later the bloodshed of the Second Intifada began. Jonathan