세계의 신문들에 중동에 관한 내용의 기사가 넘쳐나고 있다. 그 기사들의 내용은 매우 암울하다. 시리아와 이라크는 ISIS라고 알려진 폭력적인 반란에 맞서 싸우고 있고, 리비아는 혼란에 빠져 있다. 2009년 "아랍의 봄" 이후, 이집트는 군부독재로 다시 돌아갔으며, 평화로웠던 예멘은 다시금 끝이 안 보이는 내전의 혼란 속으로 빠져들어 다른 국가들의 개입을 유도하고 있다. 단기간에...

As the new year begins and Syria lurches toward civil war, there is no logical scenario where Bashar al-Assad can legitimately hold onto power without killing many thousands more of his people than he already has. United Nations estimates of more than 5,000 dead since the uprising began in early...

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Senator John Kerry made a quiet trip to Egypt over the weekend, where he met with leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood -- the first senior US official to do so. The meeting will undoubtedly set off the country's secularists and liberals, but the bottom line...

Every passing day brings news of pro-democracy demonstrators murdered by the autocratic regime of Syria's Bashar al-Assad. The killings are an almost daily occurrence in Hama, Homs, the Damascus suburbs, and other parts of the country that in the past have been spared violence.

The West's reaction so far...

Muammar Gaddafi's 42-year dictatorship is hanging by a thread, most of his family is either under arrest or in exile, and rebels are celebrating their impending victory in virtually every village, town and Tripoli neighborhood. It's like Iraq in March 2003. But things in Iraq changed quickly.

We know...

Osama bin Laden is dead and Americans are rightfully taking a victory lap. But the greatest threat to the nation's safety and security over the past five years has not been from bin Laden's al-Qaeda, dug into Afghanistan and Pakistan. It's been from a Yemen-based offshoot called al-Qaeda in...