Selected Opinion

By Max Boot- The Wall Street Journal – Ever since the dawn of the air age more than a century ago, military strategists have been prone to the delusion that bombing by itself can win wars. [...]

By Hisham Melhem – Politico Magazine – America’s Muslims are very diverse, largely middle class and mostly mainstream; they are much less alienated than European Muslims, and many of [...]

By David P. Goldman – Asia Times – Reprinted by Middle East Forum “Round up the usual suspects” was the brunt of President Obama’s address to the American public [...]

By Hassan Hassan- The Guardian – The United Nations’ sanctions monitoring team warned last Tuesday that Libya wasemerging as a key stronghold for Islamic State close to the shorelines of [...]

By Gerald F. Seib – The Wall Street Journal – President Barack Obama clearly intended his Sunday night address from the Oval Office to pull the nation together behind his strategy for [...]

By David Ignatius – The Washington Post – At the center of President Obama’s strategy for dealing with the Islamic State is an empty space. It’s supposed be filled by a hypothetical [...]

By Daniel Williams – The Washington Post – Of course, the Texas senator’s suggestion that Christians should be accepted into the United States as refugees, in exclusive preference [...]

By Mohamed Nour Farahat – Egypt Independent – Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm We all support the state. Nobody supports the non-state. Nobody wants Egypt to become like it [...]

By Jacob Olidort – Foreign Affairs – In the wake of the bombing of the Russian plane in Sinai and the attacks in Paris, the self-proclaimed Islamic State (also known as ISIS) seems [...]

By Roger Cohen – The New York Times – The family of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind of the Paris attacks, lived on Future Street in Brussels. Theirs was a “spacious if shabby [...]