Posted in Daniel Byman, Yemen, Adam Garfinkle, Bernard Haykel, Terrorism, Qaeda on May 6th, 2008 2 Comments »
From Daniel Byman
The Washington Post’s reporting on the weekend that “all the defendants convicted in the [2000] attack [on the USS Cole] have escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni officials” will hardly surprise anyone watching how Yemen has handled the issue of terrorism since 9/11. While Yemeni security forces have at times made […]
Posted in Alan Dowty, Harvey Sicherman, Barry Rubin, Adam Garfinkle, Nuclear, Israel, Iran on Apr 14th, 2008 3 Comments »
From Alan Dowty
So the focus shifts to deterrence. Both Charles Krauthammer (here) and Zev Chafets (here) hold out little hope for international efforts to block Iran getting the bomb, or for military action to that end (though Chafets suggests that Israel might be able “in the best case” to weaken and delay Iran’s program). […]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Iraq on Apr 8th, 2008 No Comments »
From Adam Garfinkle
I was asked recently for my assessment of U.S. policy in Iraq and my recommendations. My view is that we should withdraw U.S. military forces substantially from Iraq, but do so in a way that, given vital U.S. strategic interests in the region, avoids the optic of defeat to the extent possible. The […]
Posted in Philip Carl Salzman, Adam Garfinkle, Islamism, Culture on Mar 29th, 2008 No Comments »
From Philip Carl Salzman
I would like to take up and elaborate somewhat Adam Garfinkle’s point (in a comment on an earlier post) about “a theologicalization of Islamic societies, defined as the process whereby the status of religion as a legitimate carrier of the public weal grows and the status of politics of a legitimate carrier […]
Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Israel, Raymond Ibrahim on Mar 10th, 2008 3 Comments »
From Raymond Ibrahim
During the eulogy of the eight slain students of the March 6 terrorist attack at Mercaz HaRav yeshiva school in West Jerusalem, highly-respected Rabbi Ya’akov Shapira made, for the average gentile, a rather elusive allusion regarding the attack: “The murderer did not want to kill these people in particular, but everyone living in […]
Posted in J. Scott Carpenter, Islam in West, Adam Garfinkle, Islamism, Egypt, Bernard Haykel, Culture on Mar 2nd, 2008 6 Comments »
From J. Scott Carpenter
As early as this weekend, Geert Wilders, controversial Dutch politician and vocal critic of Islam, will release his new film, Fitna, on the internet. Fitna, which in Arabic means “dissension,” promises to be even more inflammatory in Muslim-majority countries than the Danish cartoons that sparked riots in many capitals in 2006. According […]
Posted in Robert Satloff, Chuck Freilich, Charles Hill, Harvey Sicherman, Adam Garfinkle, Alan Dowty, Israel on Feb 19th, 2008 5 Comments »
From Adam Garfinkle
In the latest issue of The American Interest, March/April 2008, Itamar Rabinovich, the former Israeli ambassador to the United States, former president of Tel Aviv University, former head of the Dayan Center, current visiting professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School, and a member of the The American Interest editorial board, takes […]
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