The Unmasking of Barack Obama
The overseas reviews for President Obama’s foreign policy are starting to pour in — and they’re not favorable. Bob Ainsworth, the British defense secretary, has blamed Obama for the decline in British...
View ArticleA Fighting Chance
The decision President Obama made was better than the speech he gave. What will matter, long after his address is forgotten, is that Barack Obama gave Generals McChrystal and Petraeus, two of our...
View ArticleOur Place In the World
Barack Obama rode into office promising to “restore our place in the world.” Many thought this meant that Obama intended to elevate America’s profile, make us more popular and more effective, and...
View ArticleJoe Klein’s Almost Pathological Love Affairs
Time magazine’s Joe Klein is angry. Again. This time his animus is aimed at the Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami and yours truly. Again. And so, one more time — just for the fun of it — let’s take a...
View ArticleWaiting for “Isratine”
In Monday’s Washington Post, Jackson Diehl reminds us of what the true stumbling block is on the road to peace. Referring to Condoleezza Rice’s peace efforts during George W. Bush’s second term, he has...
View ArticleSadly True
The outstanding Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami has written an important piece in today’s Wall Street Journal. Among other points, he makes this one: All this plays out under the gaze of an Islamic...
View ArticleObama’s Wasted Chance with Iran
Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the fraudulent Iranian elections, which led to a popular uprising against the regime that was brutally put down. In today’s Wall Street Journal, Fouad Ajami...
View ArticleSuccess Without Victory
Developments with the war in Afghanistan are causing us to question our methods of warfare as we have not since Vietnam. Comparisons of Afghanistan to Vietnam are mushrooming, of course; Fouad Ajami...
View ArticleThe Broken Promises of an ‘Untested Redeemer’
Fouad Ajami, a brilliant Middle East scholar, has penned a masterpiece on Barack Obama for the Wall Street Journal. Here’s a portion of what Ajami writes: It is in the nature of charisma that it rises...
View ArticleA Counter View to Fouad Ajami’s Skepticism Regarding Afghanistan
Fouad Ajami is one of the world’s most respected and influential analysts of the Middle East — and for good reason. He has consistently spoken hard truths about the Arab world that few of his...
View ArticleAfghanistan: Moscow to the Rescue
I’m almost always in agreement with Max Boot’s assessments of the tactical situation in Afghanistan, and I think he’s correct when he says Hamid Karzai is, to invoke the Margaret Thatcher phrase,...
View ArticleFouad Ajami, American Patriot
Fouad Ajami, an American patriot, died Sunday at age 68. Professor Ajami was a magnificent Middle East scholar, a writer of rare beauty and elegance, and a man of considerable wit, charm, and dignity....
View ArticleThe Dream Palace and the Nightmare: Fouad Ajami’s Quest for Truth
In a Western world of carefully constructed comfort-myths, Fouad Ajami was a dangerous man. In life, Ajami was grudgingly respected by many of his critics because he was so much smarter than they were,...
View ArticleFouad Ajami’s Discovery of Israel
When Fouad Ajami, the foremost interpreter of the Arabs to America, passed away last June, the New York Times ran a strange obituary. In several places, it quoted a “profile” of Ajami written in 2003...
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