Posted in Daniel Byman, Hezbollah, Iran, Nuclear, Pakistan, Qaeda on Mar 31st, 2008 Comments Off on Nuclear transfers: comparing Iran and Pakistan
From Daniel Byman U.S. and world attention is focused understandably on the Iranian nuclear program. The list of reasons to worry about an Iranian bomb is exceptionally long and, for the most part, legitimate.
Posted in Geopolitics on Mar 31st, 2008 Comments Off on America in the Middle East
From Bernard Lewis One hears a great deal in the Middle East, and to some extent elsewhere, of American imperialism. This is a term which is both inaccurate and misleading; it reveals a lack of understanding both of what America is about and of what the word ‘imperialism’ means.
Posted in Barry Rubin, Islam in West, Josef Joffe on Mar 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
From Josef Joffe The British website LiveLeak.com has removed Fitna, intoning that it had to “place the safety of its staff above all else.” You would have thought that this is a typical reaction for all those “Euroweenies,” as the satirist Peter O”Rourke once called America’s cousins from across the sea: Let’s cave in to […]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Culture, Islamism, Philip Carl Salzman on Mar 29th, 2008 Comments Off on Why the ‘return’ to Islam?
From Philip Carl Salzman I would like to take up and elaborate somewhat Adam Garfinkle’s point (in a comment on an earlier post) about “a theologicalization of Islamic societies, defined as the process whereby the status of religion as a legitimate carrier of the public weal grows and the status of politics of a legitimate […]
Posted in Bernard Haykel on Mar 27th, 2008 Comments Off on Anti-Wahhabism: a footnote
The U.S. Department of Defense has released translations of a number of Iraqi intelligence documents dating from Saddam’s rule. Most of them deal with the regime’s support for terrorism. One of them is a General Military Intelligence Directorate report from September 2002, entitled “The Emergence of Wahhabism and its Historical Roots.” (The translation may be […]
Posted in Announcements, Martin Kramer, Stephen Peter Rosen on Mar 26th, 2008 Comments Off on MESHNet is coming
From Stephen Peter Rosen and Martin Kramer From the inception of this public website, we imagined that it would have a companion forum for the exchange of ideas among persons with a professional interest in U.S. strategy and foreign policy. We call that companion MESHNet. MESHNet is a members-only message board, ideal for hosting open […]
Posted in Hillel Fradkin, Islamism, Martin Kramer, Media, Michael Young, Terminology on Mar 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Hillel Fradkin According to Philip Bennett, managing editor of the Washington Post, Americans lack a proper understanding of Islam. Contemporary media practice is to blame, and it is the job of the same media to fix it. His immediate proposals: hiring more Muslim journalists, better translations of Arabic words or terms and greater descriptive […]
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