Selected Opinion

By Rasha Elass – Reuters – Until perhaps Friday, the main perception among Western intelligence agencies and Washington policymakers has been that Islamic State poses “no immediate [...]

By Clint Watts – War on the Rocks – President Obama, who has cautiously talked about the glacial progress in the fight against ISIL, proclaimed to ABC News, “From the start our goal [...]

By Mitt Romney – The Washington Post – After Paris, it’s clear: Doing the minimum won’t make us safe. It’s time the president stopped hedging and took meaningful steps to defend us [...]

By Yaroslav Trofimov – The Wall Street Journal – The only reason we didn’t have attacks like Paris before is because they weren’t part of ISIS strategy. Now they are [...]

By Roger Cohen – The New York Times – The Paris slaughter claimed by the Islamic State constitutes, as President François Hollande of France declared, an “act of war.” As such, it [...]

By Daniel Pipes – Philadelphia Inquirer –  Republished by DanielPipes.org As these questions suggest, the people and the professionals are moving in opposite directions, the former to [...]

By The Wall Street Journal – Paris endured one of the worst terror assaults in history Friday night, with scores murdered in coordinated attacks at multiple sites, including a restaurant, a [...]

By The Wall Street Journal – Hossam Bahgat, a respected rights activist and journalist, was arrested Sunday for “publishing false news that harms national security,” according to a lawyer [...]

By Kevin Sullivan – Real Clear World – When the Islamic State group pushed into northern Iraq in the early summer of 2014, it swept up in its path many of the religious and ethnic [...]

By The New York Times – The warnings of a plot have been widely promoted by opinion-makers in print, online, and on TV, sometimes hinting and sometimes saying flat-out that the West has [...]