Terrorism

Contrary to the claim by the 9/11 commission chairman, the failure to prevent 9/11 was not “a failure of imagination.” It was a failure of cognition. For decades prior to 9/11, terrorist attacks against Americans were perpetrated without any noticeable...

Once dubbed the “sick man of Asia” for its anemic showing during the 1980s Asian economic boom, the Philippines has now earned the title “weak man of Asia” — by caving in to terrorist demands in exchange for the release of a Filipino...

Michael Moore’s “documentary” Fahrenheit 9/11, having won the French Palm d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival earlier in the month, opened on June 25th in some 800 American theaters. In its first weekend, it led the box office with a $21.8 million...

In her testimony before the 9/11 commission, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice spoke of our “inability to connect the dots” that lead to 9/11. She blamed “legal and the bureaucratic impediments” that kept “the FBI and the CIA...

Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines magician as “one who performs tricks of illusion and sleight of hand” and “one skilled in magic,” a “sorcerer.” That’s an apt description for the parade of Democrats, leftists and...

The squabbling and finger-pointing surrounding the 9/11 commission only serve to obscure the fundamental lesson of that horrific day. Whatever errors or incompetence on the part of a particular individual or intelligence agency, what made September 11 possible was a...

We have so far discussed the aims of the war and the weapons used to fight it. Aside from pointing to the proper moral principles that ought to guide the selection of either, we have not said much about the formal process by which foreign policy decisions are to be...

As we combat Islamic terrorism abroad, we must recognize the deadly threat posed by a homegrown source–one that since 1997 has been responsible for over 600 attacks and has inflicted more than $100 million in property damage. The attacks have become bolder,...

The War we are in didn’t begin on Sept. 11, 2001. It began 22 years earlier. On Nov. 4, 1979, Islamist radicals stormed the US embassy in Tehran and, with the support of the Ayatollah Khomeini, proceeded to hold 52 Americans hostage for the next 15 months. The...

On this day, the best way to honor the dead is to reassert — and expand — the values that made their lives in this country (and our own) possible. This means rebuilding the World Trade Center — with private dollars and within the capitalist...

Although American forces impressively deposed the tyrannical regime of Saddam Hussein, the nearly two-year-long War on Terrorism is, in fact, going badly. The tragedy is that we lack not weapons, nor military prowess, nor bravery; our military is the most powerful in...

Let the remembrances begin; in the time since the worst attack in American history, it is proper to remember what happened, to celebrate heroic acts and to mourn the staggering loss of life. There is sadness, yes, but the root of the sadness must be examined, too:...

Next month it will be the second anniversary of the worst day in American history. How goes the war? To our government’s credit there has not been a repeat terrorist attack in the US. The Taliban government was overthrown. Saddam Hussein is no longer a...

America may have reached a turning point on July 22, 2003 in the battle to restore and protect civil liberties threatened by the Patriot Act. On that day the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to pass two amendments that restore the rule of law by denying...

The New York Times — unrelenting champion of the underprivileged, mighty battler against all corporate evils, and vehement opponent of Republican tax cuts for the “rich and powerful” — lives by a far more self-serving motto: All the corporate...

The fraud trial of Cyril Kendall begins this week in New York City. Kendall is a 52-year-old Guyanese national who has apparently used every chance he has had in America, including the September 11 attacks, to scheme and scam. He faces felony grand larceny and forgery...

Investors should expect continued weakness in the dollar over the coming months and year, by 8-12% against most major currencies. Dollar weakness this year already has exerted a bearish influence on U.S. stocks and will continue to do so with a lag. If, as we expect,...