As things stand, if Iran continues on its path toward obtaining the bomb, Israel will strike, and the consequences would be disastrous for the entire world. Here's how America can convince Israel to live with a nuclear Iran.
Pakistan's military-intelligence complex is too preoccupied with countering India to mount a serious campaign against radicals who threaten the nation's survival. The country is being destroyed from within.
As the Non-Proliferation Treaty enters its fifth decade, President Obama has endorsed the crusade to rid the world of the bomb. But is nuclear zero the right choice? Sagan and Waltz update their landmark debate.
Al-Qaeda has accomplished the unthinkable: establishing an embryonic recruitment, radicalization and operational capacity on our shores. Our current strategy risks another 9/11.
America is facing its first homegrown Islamic-extremism event. At the end of the day, whether violence comes from within our own borders will depend on nothing so much as assimilation. Washington has much to learn from its European ancestors.
Germany and Indonesia certainly have a radical Islam problem. Stymieing
the construction of mosques here is a surefire way to create one in the
U.S. as well.
Mubarak and Friedman on Israel-Palestine; the Times and the Journal disagree over Obama's speech; and "six leading thinkers" tell us what moderate Islam is all about.
Uninformed pundits and shadowy security types often lump all Islamists together. But best way to win the fight against the jihadists is to expose them as a violent fringe.
Stopping torture and changing the policies of the Bush administration may not be enough. With a whole new type of terrorist bred from extraordinary rendition and torture, the last eight years may well prove inescapable.
