From Copenhagen to Samara, the radical Islamists are on the offensive. From Tehran to Damascus, the dictators are trying to regain the upper hand in the Middle East. From Moscow to Beijing, the enemies of liberal democracy are working to weaken the United States.

The United States tries to work with European allies to deal with the problem peacefully, depending on International Atomic Energy Agency inspections and United Nations sanctions.

The purple ink on 11 million Iraqi fingers had not yet dried after an unprecedented, almost miraculous exercise in democratic freedom--and already there were querulous American critics working hard to make light of the whole thing.

A U.S. president has just received word that American counterterrorist operatives have captured a senior al Qaeda operative in Pakistan. Among his possessions are a couple of cell phones -phones that contain several American phone numbers. In the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, what’s a president to do?

Rep. Jack Murtha has had a distinguished congressional career. But his outburst last Thursday was breathtakingly irresponsible.

They've been denying that the war on terror is a war, or that Iraq is central to that war. They've been defining down success in Iraq, and for that matter victory in the broader war on terror.

The right formulation, and the right policy, would be this: As Iraqis stand up, we will stand with them.

The president would have none of it. This past Monday, announcing John Bolton's recess appointment as U.N. ambassador, the president went out of his way to say that "this post is too important to leave vacant any longer, especially during a war."

Nadie pensó nunca que conquistar los bastiones de la tiranía o destruir a los patrocinadores del terror sería fácil. Pero ceñir la política exterior americana a unos estándares míni-mos no debería ser así de difícil: ninguna recompensa para actos crudos de opresión dictatorial. Descargar PDF

Whatever the outcome of the French referendum on the European Union's constitution and the Dutch vote, it is already clear that the public debate over the referenda, and the real possibility of a "No" vote, could prove to have been a liberating experience for Europeans. Descargar PDF

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