The United States provides military assistance to a variety of countries in the Middle East, Africa and Southwest Asia, including Israel, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Jordan, Yemen, Pakistan and Bangladesh. We provide equipment and training for the security forces of…
[Ed. Note: The resignation of Hosni Mubarak in no way changes or mitigates the spectacle of America’s intelligence chiefs’ inane pronouncements yesterday. The resignation, in fact, makes our concerns about the Muslim Brotherhood’s possible ascension to power more salient and…
While you were watching Egypt, the rest of the world wasn’t sitting still.
Several months ago, a blogger penned, “There was a growing perception among Arab leaders that the U.S. was incapable of standing up to Israel; that CENTCOM’s mostly Arab constituency was losing faith in American promises; that Israeli intransigence on the…
The mantra of the press is that the United States is likely to lose its major Arab ally, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Certainly Mubarak does some of what the United States would have him do – things he believed were…
It was a great rhetorical moment. President George W. Bush, speaking in Whitehall, succinctly and eloquently framed the problem of 21st Century Western policy in the Middle East:
In an interesting juxtaposition, right after yesterday’s JINSA Report about the importance of temperate and truthful words, al Jazeera and The Guardian (UK) announced that leaked documents prove Abu Mazen and Saeb Erekat made far reaching peace proposals to Israel…
It has become axiomatic in a certain part of the American political class that words matter. Even with the necessary disclaimer that the shooting in Arizona was the work of a mentally deranged man whose political reading was confined mainly…
Secretary of State Clinton called for an increase in civic space in the Arab world and an end to the corruption that sucks the economic life even – or especially – out of poor countries with an educated workforce. But…
The “World Security Network” newsletter carried the following bit of an interview reportedly with Hamas leader Ousama Hamdan about Gilad Shalit.