Commentary
Bobby Jindal and the Soft Bigotry of Good Intentions
May 30, 2009
Interesting story today on how Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal supposedly rebuked former Vice President Dick Cheney for asserting the U.S. is less safe due to some of President Obama’s decisions.
Despite the Huffpo’s headline...
Let’s Support President Obama in Stopping Iran
May 30, 2009
This week I have a piece on the web site of the Center for Security Policy detailing former deputy national security advisor Elliott Abrams’ views on President Obama’s chances of effectively employing sanctions to squeeze...
Bibi: Today in Washington, Remind Our President of These Hard Truths
May 30, 2009
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on his way to the White House today to meet with President Obama, Israel faces a potentially existential threat from Iran, whose leadership has repeatedly stated its intention to destroy the...
Bangladeshi Journalist, Champion of Free Speech in the Muslim World, Attacked
February 28, 2009
On Monday, a gang of thugs stormed the newspaper office of The Weekly Blitz, an independent newspaper based in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and physically attacked its editor, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury.
Choudhury, 39, advocates normalized...
Shutting Down Guantanamo Makes No Common Sense
February 12, 2009
Last week former Vice President Dick Cheney defended the Bush administration’s national security policies, including holding “hard core” terror suspects at the detention facility at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay,...
Iraqi Parliamentarian to His People: “It’s Not Between Palestinians and Israelis, it’s Between Terrorists and Moderates”
January 9, 2009
Just spoke over the phone with Iraqi Parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi, head of the Iraqi Nation Party in Baghdad, who advocates normalized relations between the new Iraq and Israel and promotes human rights in the Middle East. He says that,...
An International Businessman’s Perspective on the Popular Mr. Obama
January 9, 2009
Just had an interesting conversation with an international businessman about our President-elect.
Adam Ginsberg, author of How to Buy, Sell and Profit on E-Bay, conducts training seminars and sells software that helps people to create and...
Humanity in a Time of Inhumanity
January 9, 2009
Tonight a friend and I had the honor of seeing a Holocaust survivor and her rescuer reunited after 63 years.
The rescuer, Wiktoria Sozanska, was honored at the annual gala of the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR), a New York-based,...
Those on the Front Lines Prefer McCain — and Here’s Why
November 3, 2008
With days to go till the election, it would be wise for patriotic and pro-Israel American voters to keep in mind that Americans-in-Israel prefer John McCain to Barack Obama by a margin of three-to-one. Israelis, too, would rather see McCain...
Iraq’s Maverick
September 16, 2008
Last month, Iraqi parliamentarian Mithal al-Alusi contacted me by phone from Baghdad with an urgent warning that Iran could be a lot closer to attaining nuclear weapons than most analysts believe.
“Do they have an atom bomb? Not...