The Debate Link

Osama bin Laden is dead. Yesterday, I said there was little to say . Today, a few scattered thoughts come below, of varying degrees of serio...

I can never figure out if I grew up and continue to exist in a totally unique environment, or I'm just totally disconnected from the bro...

Oh burn ! Al-Qaeda views Shi'ites, particularly Iran, as a greater threat than "that from Jews and Christians."

A new "code" of Jihad has been released by the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (an Islamist organization fighting to overthrow the ...

I was talking with a friend over dinner last night, and he remarked that though he, like me, was conflicted about the Gaza operation, "...

Speaking of things that kill Americans, perhaps Justice Scalia should read this piece by an American military interrogator about the fruit...

Though discounting the mythology that cases like Brown v. Board single-handedly exposed the evil of Jim Crow and promoted civil rights refo...

One the things that's really got me hung up about the Hamdan trial is that he really did not seem to be one of the bad guys. He always m...

FM 3-24 is the Army and Marines' counter-insurgency manual. It was written in part by one Sarah Sewall, who is now an adviser on the Oba...

Mark Sageman takes a look at the bios of top al-Qaeda members: Al Qaeda’s members are not the Palestinian fourteen-year- olds we see on th...

I thought that Christiane Amanpour's article, citing a top Iranian official as declaring that the US and Iran were "natural allies...