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Embodied in the person of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and candidate, Abdul El Sayed, America is facing the twin threats posed by what some are labeling the Red-Green Alliance. Each man embodies the twin threats to the...
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Over the previous week, Christopher Nolan’s new film, the Odyssey, filled theaters and netted $80 million box office receipts despite mixed reviews and some controversy given that Nyong’o, a Black woman, was cast as...
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It’s with dread that Americans now watch the party of JFK unapologetically side with the international left, the Islamists running Iran, and the Maoists running China, and joining them in their hostility toward...
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If you are the leader of a revolutionary movement dedicated to the future overthrow of an existing government, you instinctively welcome all new combatants who wish to join your ranks. The theory goes—you extend this...
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More evidence is surfacing to alert the Iran watchers in the West that the Islamist regime is collapsing. Moreover, when it falls, Iran will become the first a post Islamic state. The significance of this event for...
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Most conservative pundits and politicians agree with Joel Ross who writes, “It appears that Trump folded because the Arabs told him they needed Iran’s attacks to end, and out of fear that a continued closure of the...
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Despite the assertions from those who have made it their mission in life to discredit the current leader of the free world, the war with Iran has already made Judeo-Christendom safer from the never-ending attacks by...
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My cousin, Robert Keeler, the celebrated military historian, in his piece "From the Halls of Montezuma," chronicles the events of our first foreign war, exposing truths about Islam, relevant to the perils we face...
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With the remnants of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the US is attempting to negotiate with groups of pre-medievalist Muslim zealots, the armed fragments of the Iranian regime, each vying to take...
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Iran is the last remaining state following Mohammad’s command to conquer the infidel. In that regard, it is worth noting that on September 11, 1683, the army led by the Polish King, Jan Sobiesky, together with the...
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Winston Churchill is among the vast number of historians who have concluded that the war in Europe could have been prevented if Britain and France had acted to stop Hitler before he invaded Czechoslovakia. His...
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After its first month, the bombing campaign conducted against Iran by the United States and Israel has produced some unprecedented “firsts” in the history of human conflict.
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As we await the fall of the Iranian regime, some readers of history will see it as a biblical event. Others will see it as providential in this clash of civilizations. In my book Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I...
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The Greek historian Herodotus tells us that Cyrus succeeded to the Persian throne in 559 BC. After conquering numerous neighboring kingdoms, including Media, Bactria. Armenia and Lydia, he conquered Babylonia, whose...
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As massive crowds of demonstrators fill the streets of Iranian cities, among the buildings on fire are mosques. Why?
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During the deadly shooting at Australia’s Bondi Beach in Sydney, Ahmed al-Ahmed was filmed tackling and disarming one of the Muslim attackers, only to be shot by the other attacker. The man, identified as a...
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ISIS has now lost much of the old section of Mosul, a city it conquered in 2014, to Iraqi coalition forces. In this section of the old city stands the ruin of the al Nuri Grand Mosque built in the 12th century.
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In my first book, published in 2012, I predicted that a future US president may have both the opportunity and the need to partner with the Iranian people to bring down the hated theocratic regime which rules them with an iron fist and which gravely threat
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In my new book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, Vol. II, - The Way Forward, I report that the nearly autonomous Kurds of Northern Iraq, have not only exhibited great heroism in driving ISIS out of the towns and...
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On April 8, I attended a wedding reception where I was seated next to an attendee who felt the need to let me know my views regarding resurgent militant Islam were, in his view, misguided. Given that we all know...
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The historian and theologian, Father Richard Neuhaus, opined that the difficulty for today’s Muslims is that Mohammad is the only founder of a major modern religion whose life falls within an era of pedigreed...
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My friend, Amil Imani, is an Iranian born and influential pro-democracy activist whose family escaped Iran during the Islamic revolution of 1979. He is also an apostate and is a fierce critic of Islam. He recently...
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(First in a series on National Security and the 2016 presidential election)
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As we are in the final run up toward a presidential election where one of the candidates is arguably guilty of criminal malfeasance and very possibly treason, General Flynn’s new book, The Field of Fight, is an...
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The above title and the following excerpt describes one of my proscriptions for winning World War III with the IslamoNazi’s. They will appear in my forthcoming book. There is an overarching reason why the FBI and...
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The recent killing of the Taliban Chieftain, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, by a drone inside the Pakistan province of Baluchistan, is a striking reminder that we have entered a futuristic world where war is waged by flying...
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At the outset of the first Iraq war, Colin Powell warned President Bush 41 that he saw no exit strategy for the U.S. if our forces pursued Iraqi troops from Kuwait all the way to Baghdad. He followed his warning with...
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I spoke to Cliff May who is the founder and President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies which he created immediately following 9/11. FDD today is one of the nation’s most highly regarded national security...
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Before Obama’s election in 2008, in the halls of American academia, among the deans of international studies, the concepts of soft power versus hard power had been well-established bipolar modes of operation by which...
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A new Gallup poll concludes that Americans hate their government much more than they did when Obama first took office. In 2009, the burden of government was ranked fourth on the list of problems faced by Americans...
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In speaking with Carly Fiorina, I began by saying, “I’m worried about a knockout blow to the U.S. delivered by what I call the new “Axis of Evil,” that being, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran and their satellites...
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Last Thursday night, October 22, in a daring raid, U.S. Special forces teamed with Kurdish Peshmerga forces and attacked an ISIS controlled prison in Hawijah, just outside the now autonomous Kurdish region of...
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In the wake of the Paris shootings, the horrors visited by ISIS upon Syria and Iraq and the genocide being perpetrated by Boko Haram in North Africa, finally there seems to be an awakening even among the western...
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Article posted January 19, 2015 on Townhall.com
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In this photo, captured from a video, gunmen are seen pointing their guns at a police officer outside the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris. He was later shot in the head.
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In the face of Obama’s endless decrees that the war with militant al Qaeda was over and his underlying fervent belief that the world would be safer with the U.S. in retreat, his dangerous delusions are now wreaking...
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There is an aphorism which holds that a liberal will undergo a conversion to conservatism on the day after he’s been mugged. While most liberals would find this statement to contain more than a whiff of racism, they...
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With all the focus on ISIL lately, it seems that we are still losing the battle against the terrorism stemming from Islam. Brother Rashid, as he is known, has a very distinct and direct message to the President of...
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Hagel characterized the Islamic State as “beyond just a terrorist group.” “They marry ideology, a sophistication of strategic and tactical military prowess. They are tremendously well-funded. This is beyond anything...
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By 207 B.C., Rome and its allies on the Italian peninsula had lost approximately 100,000 soldiers to the invading armies of the great Carthaginian general, Hannibal. To make matters more desperate, the Carthaginians...
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As the world is horrified to learn that innocent Iraqis, even little girls, are being beheaded and women are being captured as sexual booty by ISIS, one could easily ask, “What inspires such cruelty?” The answer...
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Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the May 2010 issue ofTownhall Magazine.
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In my previous two articles [part I, part II] in this series I wrote that newly released intelligence, including a highly placed, eye-witness Iranian defector, reveal that the Mullahs running Iran provided planning...
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Recent news reports and declassified documents show that both the Mullahs running Iran and even some Saudi Royals were not only involved in the planning of 9/11 but both Shiite and Sunni leadership continue to aid...
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Taliban told Obama to concentrate on domestic affairs. Photo source: http://goo.gl/EITH5.
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In my book, Lessons From Fallen Civilizations, I write:
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In AD 732, exactly one hundred years after Muhammad’s death, Charlemagne’s Grandfather, the Frankish warlord, Charles Martel, stopped the northwestern advance of Islam in the French countryside at a battle fought...
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Early in her first term as Prime Minister, the Soviets moved short range nuclear missiles into Eastern Europe where they were positioned to erase London and various European capitals in a flight time of mere minutes...
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In my book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, the subtitle poses a stark question; Can a Bankrupt America Survive the Current Islamic Threat? So frequently do we see headlines such as, Car Bomb at Mosque Kills 37 or...
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Shortly after 9/11, President Bush said that “Islam is the religion of peace.” While history will likely be kind to him for such an unfortunate statement, given that he courageously took the war against militant...
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I wrote in my book Lessons From Fallen Civilizations,For over a millennium, since the time when Muhammad’s seventh-century successors first rode out of the Arabian Peninsula; Islam waged constant war against the...
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One startling outcome of the recent outbreak in hostilities between the Hamas-run government in Gaza and Israel is that it renders void an ancient paradigm. In a recent Op Ed, Michael Oren, Israel’s Ambassador to the...
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In the just concluded Townhall debate, the most telling moment signaling Obama’s utter failure as President came during the discussion of the Benghazi attack.
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In recognition of the eleven year anniversary of 9/11, I will be appearing on the radio show, America Now with Andy Dean which is syndicated over 60 affiliates nationwide on the Premier Radio Network. My appearance...
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Shortly after the fall of Mubarak, on February 11, 2011, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu was quoted as saying, “No one knows what the future in Egypt will bring.” With the departure of Mubarak, a...
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Islamic aggression toward the West is not new. It’s been happening for fourteen centuries and has resulted in the fall of Christian Middle East. Using history as our guide, we must ask:
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My friend, Nonie Darwish, is an author, speaker, and a courageous advocate in the cause to prevent Islam from realizing its stated goal—that being, the gradual subversion and ultimate conquest of the West. On her two...
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This week, Rush Limbaugh spent a good deal of time discussing a courageous piece by Andy McCarthy entitled, The Wages of Willful Blindness: Is it Time for Defenders of Liberty to Abandon the GOP?. While McCarthy’s...
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Pamella Geller’s book, Stop the Islamization of America, published last year, grows more important each year given the events taking place both in the Muslim world and inside the USA. She writes that Fort Hood...
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"The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. It's wrong." — President Obama.
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In the Islamic Hadiths which are elaborations on the Koran, the statement, “War is Deceit,” is attributed to the Prophet Mohammad by his most reliable biographer, Muhammad al Bukhari (810-870). Islam is the only...
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Last week’s talks with the Iranians ended badly. The Iranians actually hardened their position. Instead of agreeing to shut down uranium enrichment at its new underground facility at Fordo, a facility which they...
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Trivia question: What do the American Left and the rioters in Greece have in common? Answer: Both are in arithmetic denial.
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If a people cannot avoid continuous internal warfare, they will have a new order imposed from without.
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One of the lesser understood phenomenon of history is that small ruthless bands of thugs will inevitably take over vastly larger docile civilizations, the operative words being ruthless and civilized. The civilized...
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In my forthcoming book, Lessons from Fallen Civilizations, I note that no people untouched by the ancient Greeks ever came up with the notion that the many should rule the few. Based on our founding, we are the...
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In the wake of the first ever Tunisian elections, it is worth reflecting upon the Athenians of the fifth century BC who first conceived of a system of governance where the many would rule the few, and worth...
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On Sunday May 1, the night that President Obama announced to the world the elimination of bin Laden, he was adamant in asserting, “We’re not now nor will we ever be at war with Islam.” This unsolicited statement must...
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This week two suicide bombers from Jundallah (army of God), the Sunni separatists in Iran’s southeastern province Baluchistan blew up a Shiite religious procession killing 39. Relative to this, in April of 2007, I...
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It’s hard to think of a single government policy that has engendered a more sustained universal outrage then Janet Incompetano’s latest airport security procedures which have produced anecdotes such as a videotape of...
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With a wink, Yasser Arafat referred to the “Quraysh Model” in a speech he gave in Arabic to a Palestinian audience shortly after he signed Clinton’s vaunted Oslo Peace Accords and shortly before he issued yet another...
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UPDATE: August 2, 2010 This article has been posted online at Townhall Magazine. It was first published in the May 2010 print issue. I welcome your comments here also.
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Ollie North Vividly Portrays the American Heroes
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Edward Gibbon, perhaps the preeminent historian of the second millennium, in his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, wrote that Mohammed had “no more than 17 wives: 11 enumerated and who occupied at Medina their...
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About the Afghani Northern Alliance fighters and Western Military
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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...
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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...
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More and more Iranians, especially the young, have had enough of this barbarity.
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By 1428, what remained of free France seemed doomed to become another vassal province of England. All French lands north of the Loire River had been lost with Burgundian and Parisian soldiers now fighting on the side...
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For the entire week, the front page of my hometown newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, has been devoted to two major stories: Gov. Arnold Schwarzennegger’s special election initiatives and the opening of the...
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Country Joe Mac Donald penned that 1960s memorable musical refrain—So it’s one, two, three, what’re we fightin’ for?/Don’t give a damn, next stop is Viet Nam. He was also one of the warm up acts for the Welcome Home...
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With the bombings in London providing a backdrop, it’s important to note that just last year, the U.S. State Department named Iran as the most active sponsor of terrorism. And with the sham election and elevation of...
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On a September morning in 490 B.C., 9,000 free citizen soldiers from Athens watched the 26,000 Persians, disembarking their ships that were beached beside the plain of Marathon. On the bluffs above, the Athenian...
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“We have found no credible evidence that Iraq and al Qaeda cooperated on attacks against the United States.”
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Can there be anything more sacred or more defining for a Kerry-voting liberal than the certain knowledge that our war in Viet Nam was evil? Yet in a remarkable twist of fate, the Kerry campaign continues to compel us...
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With the guilty plea of that highly-bribed lobbyist, Samir Vincent, another shoe has dropped in the Oil for Food Iraq Theft (OFFIT), a swindle that may just be the largest in the long history of human thievery...
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Many veteran observers have mused that had the American press in the early 1940s been as virulently anti-FDR as they are today anti-Bush, the allies may very well not have won World War 2. Others have opined that the...
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In the midst of all the pro-Kerry media having gotten into a lock-step rant over the 9/11 commission report, into the breach comes the new Stephen Hayes book, The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam...
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With David Kay's resignation, press interviews and Senate testimony, and the report issued earlier this month from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, disapproving of the decision to invade Iraq, we ve...
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Not since the end Viet Nam conflict in the 1970s, have Americans witnessed, with some prominent exceptions, the majority of U.S. news organizations actively and openly attempting to undermine a U.S. war effort. As...
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Mohammad al-Asi of the Islamic Education Center in Potomac, Maryland,
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The Confessions of Neo Don Quiote and a Decidedly Over-the-Hill Holden Caulfield
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