Osama bin Laden – Schirach Report

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...

Terrorism Is Rooted In Ideologies – It Is Not About Poverty President Obama says that if countries had better eeconomic policies there would no terrorism. Really?

WASHINGTON – The White House convened a mega-summit on Countering Violent Extremism, with the participation of 65 countries. To...

The War On Terror And Its Consequences Wrong response to the threat cost America way too much. In the end, not more secure and much poorer

WASHINGTON – In a thoughtful piece in the NYT, (The Gift That Keeps Giving, December 3, 2014), Tom Friedman takes us...

Moderate Muslims Mostly Silent About Radical Movements That Claim Islamic Roots ISIL and others thrive in large part because very few challenge their religious credentials

WASHINGTON – The self-proclaimed Islamic State, (IS, also known as ISIS or ISIL), now established in parts of Syria and...

The Islamic State Should Be Destroyed, Immediately By now we should know that a political entity founded on a radical anti-Western ideology is a serious threat to America and the world

WASHINGTON – In the 1990s the Clinton administration stupidly under estimated the threat posed by Osama bin Laden and...

The Crisis Of the Arab World Will Go On And On Not much that we can do about it. Still, we need to protect ourselves against terrorism, its most dangerous byproduct

WASHINGTON – With sympathy but a great deal of pessimism The Economist examines the state of perennial backwardness of...

Superficial Foreign Policy Debates America is much poorer while the world is a lot more complicated

WASHINGTON – In this rather silly and definitely low brow sound bite political campaign, president Obama said in a...

US Government Released Documents Showing How Osama bin Laden Was A Spent Force At The Time Of His Killing In May 2011 – Getting Rid Of Him Was Good, But Not Much To Brag About

By Paolo von Schirach Related story: https://schirachreport.com/index.php/2012/05/02/obama-did-not-need-to-fly-to-kabul-to-announce-new-afghanistan-policy-this-was-a-cheap-publicity-stunt-osamas-death-changed-little-in-this-conflict/ May 3, 2012 WASHINGTON – I stated (see link above)...

Obama Did Not Need To Fly To Kabul To Announce New Afghanistan Policy – This Was A Cheap Publicity Stunt – Osama’s Death Changed Little In This Conflict

By Paolo von Schirach May 2, 2012 WASHINGTON – The connection between the killing of Osama bin...

After Quran Burning Riots, Less Support For Afghanistan War In Washington – Time To End This Occupation With No Purpose And Refocus On Fighting Terrorists

By Paolo von Schirach March 6, 2012 WASHINGTON – The Afghanistan $ 2 billion a week war...