Can anyone imagine Ronald Reagan appointing a blue-ribbon panel, partly comprised of his political enemies, and ordering it to produce a report that would tell him how to deal with the Soviet Union?

Perhaps the most odious aspect of Iraq Study Group report was that it linked the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with our decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power, as if both were imperialist depredations of the Middle East, wrongs for which America must atone. And in so doing, the report not only sold out our troops lost in this war and those still there fighting, but it sold out Israel, our most trusted ally in the region. 

It was good news for those of us who hope our children and grandchildren More »

An adequate working description of my new column might well be: Militant Islam vs. the West—The Good News. But now that both Iraq and Lebanon seem to be slouching toward civil war, now that schools open to Afghan girls are being attacked with savage impunity, now that Carl Levin, that sultan of surrender will be heading the Senate Armed Services committee, now that John Bolton has resigned, now that the Iraq Studyy Group has been ominously praised by Madeline Albright, the architect of the North Korean “Agreed Framework,” you might ask—isn’t this exactly the wrong time to launch a new column featuring the positive news emanating from the war with militant Islam?

My response is, “No, this is exactly the right time that we remind ourselves, among other admonitions, that the West was nearly conquered twice by militant Islam. More »