Madison’s Warning and
the Israel Lobby

One of the preoccupations of the authors of the American constitution was defining the danger posed to the new body politic by political, social, and economic factions. "By faction," James Madison, the Constitution's father, wrote in the justly famous Federalist No....

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Doing bin Laden’s Work
for Him

As Israel and Hezbollah again prove racial and religious hatred are the core, irremediable traits of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the international media focuses on each side's weaponry and the evacuees, Osama bin Laden is smiling and praising Allah in his mountain...

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Does Israel Conduct Covert Action in America?

Covert action is much talked about and little understood. At its most basic level, covert action is a set of intelligence operations undertaken by a specific state's intelligence agencies to advance its national interests. They are executed in a manner that limits the...

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Embracing a Lethal Tar Baby

America's Sunni Islamist opponents must be ever more strongly sensing that Allah truly is on their side. Currently, this perception is due not only to the recent victory of the Islamist party Hamas in Palestine's parliamentary elections, but more especially because of...

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Throwing America a Life Preserver

Professor Robert Pape's brilliant new book Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism gives Americans an urgently needed basis for devising a strategy to defeat Osama bin Laden and other Islamist militants. In scholarly and low-key prose, Pape delivers the...

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God, Drunks, and America

Winston Churchill once remarked that God protects drunks and the United States of America. Fortunately, the divine protection Churchill detected for the United States seems still in place – if we are wise enough to see and take advantage of it. In the past month,...

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A Fire Bell in the Night for the West?

"It [the Koran] is the great visceral connector that makes all Muslims feel that there is a community between them. … For Muslims, dissing the Koran is the hot button of all hot buttons." - Lee Harris, May 12, 20051 One need not be a Pollyanna to find a...

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Put the Marx Brothers in Charge

The new Robb-Silberman report on U.S. intelligence capabilities should, but won't, enrage Americans. Too long at 600-plus pages for most to read, the report completes the destruction of the intelligence community – especially the CIA – begun by Congress'...

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