If experience is anything to go by, the Marines who misbehaved in that video will be disciplined and punished—while those who are trying to exploit those images to undermine their mission never will be.

How the president can fight back on the home front.

Any effort by the anti-American left or the Arab media to generalize the acts of a few into an attack on America, or on America's armed forces, should be repudiated and condemned.

Are Iraqi terrorists the products of fanatic tyrannies, or are the tyrannies the logical expression of the true nature of the peoples of the region?

Mario Vargas Llosa delivered the Irving Kristol Lecture at AEI's 2005 Annual Dinner.

While some would argue such political transformation depends more upon a slow and lengthy process of change, nothing discredits tyranny as its defeat in war.

Not all speech is permitted under the Constitution. The first Amendment does not protect lewd and libelous speech, and it should not--and cannot in 2006--be used as a shield for murderers.

The burning of effigies of Queen Elizabeth II and Salman Rushdie by Muslim students in Pakistan should remindthe Westof the importance of defendingits cultural symbols.