This article is about the collapse of Saddam and his regime and the effect on the people in the region.

Supporting the Iraqi opposition is not the same as encouraging an invasion.

Several years ago, Farid Ghadry​--a Syrian exile activist--published a piece in the Middle East Quarterly looking at what political trends lay beneath the surface of Syria's Baathist dictatorship. He identified the discussions groups that arose during the short-lived "Damascus Spring" and hypothesized that they represented the proto-political parties which might develop.

Put effort and money behind court system, as the U.S. has done in building the military.

Euphemism is breeding resentment;we wouldall benefit from speaking clearly andexplicitly about what we expect from Muslim communities.

The recent anti-war protest in Washington, D.C.,consisted largely of astrange coalition of hard leftists, jihadists and eternal anti-Semites who now claim to speak for "peace."

In the second edition of Study of Revenge: The First World Trade Center Attack and Saddam Hussein’s War against America, author Laurie Mylroie examines the first terrorist attack against the United States--the 1993 World Trade Center bombing--and Iraq’s key role in this conspiracy.

Western liberalism and democracy have found few takers in the Middle East. Instead, the people of the region have chased totalitarian fantasies.