Owing to Chinese and Russian obstreperousness, the United Nations would probably fail to agree on any sanctions, let alone a sanctions regime with sufficient bite to intimidate the mullahs. The Europeans--at least the French, Germans, and British if not the Italians--would do a bit better, primarily because the French, despite their laissez-passer cynicism and their Gaullist pride vis-à-vis the United States, have developed a strong distaste for the clerics.

The Shiites of Iraq who want representative government, and who look to the resolutely moderate Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani for religious and political guidance, have endured Baathists, Sunni supremacists and holy warriors.

The new president of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is a godsend. The Americans, the Europeans, and even the Russians are now treating clerical Iran's 20-year quest to develop nuclear weapons more seriously.

By the end of the presidency, Bush will likely rank with Ronald Reagan, the last president American liberals and "realists" truly disliked, as one of the boldest and most far-sighted American leaders.

We are all always rightly concerned about the operational morality of America's intelligence agencies; we should probably be more concerned about their competence.

Let's take a quick tour d'horizon and see where we are in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Tunisia, Iran, Iraq. Descargar PDF

Iran's nuclear program is likely to derail any serious rapprochement between the United States and western Europe. Descargar PDF

But what should be the administration's Middle East project for the next four years? Post-Saddam Iraq is not a failure--as long as roughly 80 percent of Iraq's population is moving towards democratic governance, we're not failing. But it is certainly an awful mess. Descargar PDF

The U.S. simply cannot entertain the possibility of pre-emptively striking clerical Iran's nuclear-weapons facilities for fear of producing a two-front, hopeless mess in Iraq, where the Shiites have so far overwhelming refused to join the Sunni insurgency. Descargar PDF

¿La guerra de Iraq ha hecho más difícil la lucha de Norteamérica contra el fundamentalismo islámico?.¿Ha radicalizado la guerra el mundo musulmán más, haciendo más fácil para el al Qaeda de Osama bin Laden encontrar y reclutar guerreros suicida santos?. Descargar PDF

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