Iranian Hostages: Old Story, Same Ending

September 27, 2011

Western airlines continue to fly potential hostages to Tehran. It’s time to take some of the profit out of the body-snatching business.

Kill A Man, Bury The News

July 16, 2010

This morning’s New York Times is a death warrant for a very troubled, and possibly a very brave, man — a spectacular example of what can go wrong when press freedoms and terrible editorial judgment combine. The Times reported that Shahram Amiri, the Iranian nuclear scientist who returned to his home country this week, had been a Central Intelligence Agency informant years before he made the pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia …

In The Middle East, Fighting Is Easier Than Peace

June 4, 2010

Decade after decade, the world’s most powerful leaders have tried to resolve the conflict between Israel and its neighbors, yet the two sides continue an endless cycle of provocation, counterattack and escalation. Why? I believe neither side knows what it would do with itself if it didn’t have perpetual conflict with outsiders to unify its society. The war now defines the warriors. Israel, which started its independent life 62 years …

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Western Leaders Stand Together, Alone

September 28, 2009

The leaders of the United States, France and Britain wanted to show strength and resolve Friday as they denounced Iran’s belated disclosure that it is building a second nuclear fuel enrichment facility. Instead, they showed just how isolated the Western industrial democracies have become. There were 20 prominent heads of state in Pittsburgh that morning, gathered for the G-20 economic summit. President Obama, France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister …

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Hard Times For Hezbollah

June 25, 2009

Hezbollah has had a rotten month. It started with the generally positive reception generated by U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo. Obama quoted the Koran and promised an evenhanded U.S. approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, into which Lebanon-based Hezbollah has injected itself. A few days after Obama’s speech, Hezbollah was drubbed in the Lebanese parliamentary elections, which it had been expected to win. This left a generally pro-Western coalition …

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Civil Cyberwar In Iran

June 17, 2009

As Iran’s hard-line government struggles to put down post-election protests, we may be seeing the first example of a civil war fought in cyberspace. On the streets the situation is nowhere near civil war, at least not yet. Though crowds reported to be in the hundreds of thousands marched Monday in Tehran to protest the allegedly rigged re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the opposition has been nearly entirely nonviolent. One …

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