Terrorism Is Not An Existential Threat WASHINGTON – Sadly, there has been another terror attack. This time it took place in Munich, one of Germany’s...
How To Handle Terrorism: Stop Media Coverage Terrorists love publicity. International media make them famous, this way encouraging others WASHINGTON – A 31 year old French citizen of Tunisian origin, using a truck as his weapon, run over...
Dealing With The Terror Threat in America America divided on what needs to be done WASHINGTON – As we are entering the heated phase of the US presidential campaign, the Orlando massacre perpetrated by...
Orlando Shooting Strengthens Trump’s Position On Muslims If this indeed about Islamic terror, Trump's anti-Muslim positions seem more reasonable WASHINGTON – In a U.S. presidential campaign that is and will be dominated by emotional slogans and over simplified...
We Have To Learn How To Live With The Terror Threat No one has a magic remedy. Catching the bad guys is a job for the police and intelligence services WASHINGTON – Here we go, more home-grown terrorism in America, most likely Islam-inspired terrorism. This time it happened in...
The Terror Threat Will Not End It is too easy to create a terror group. And terror operations are really cheap WASHINGTON – Terror attacks hatched by crazy militants underscore the deep vulnerabilities of modern, open societies. They trigger an avalanche...
The West Is Caught In Middle East Chaos Terrorism is just one manifestation of religious wars that will have no quick end WASHINGTON – The Paris terror attacks lead to Syria, to the Arab Spring, to the Sunni-Shia conflicts, to al...
After The Paris Terror Attack: Focus On The Caliphate Eliminating this stronghold of jihadi power in Syria and Iraq would hurt morale and recruiting power WASHINGTON – Regarding the large-scale terror attack that just took place in Paris, the worst thing that we can...
Obama Will Not Fight ISIL This cancer will foster radicalism and terrorism throughout the region and beyond WASHINGTON – The Obama administration Middle East policy can be summarized with this proposition: “Let’s do nothing, hoping nothing...
Lessons of 9/11: Stay Vigilant, Improve US Intelligence It is impossible to "win" an aasymmetric conflict in which the other side always has the advantage of surprise WASHINGTON – The 9/11 attacks brought home the simple but unpleasant truth that America and Americans are easy, vulnerable...