UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD ISLAMIST REGIMES & TERRORIST GROUPS & THE SORRY STATE OF THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY UNDER BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA:  PRESIDENT OBAMA'S WEAK NATIONAL LEADERSHIP & THE ACCELERATED UNRAVELING OF THE FABRIC OF AMERICAN SOCIETY

SHOULD UNITED STATES FOREIGN & NATIONAL-SECURITY POLICYMAKERS BE LESS CONCERNED WITH EVENTS IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD?  SHOULD U.S. POLICYMAKERS LOOK WITH MORE COMPLACENCY ON THE RISE & FALL OF PARTICULAR REGIMES ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA?

WHY THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN STATES SHOULD REFRAIN FROM INTERVENING MILITARITY INTO THE SYRIAN CONFLICT: WHY FOREIGN POLICY INTERESTS OF WESTERN STATES SHOULD TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER GENERALIZED HUMANITARIAN CONCERNS -- WHY WESTERNERS MUST VIEW SYRIA STRATEGICALLY, PUTTING A PRIORITY ON THEIR OWN SECURITY -- GEOPOLITICAL DISADVANTAGES OF A PROTRACTED CONFLICT IN SYRIA -- GEOPOLITICAL ADVANTAGES OF SUCH A CONFLICT

AMERICAN FOREIGN & NATIONAL-SECURITY POLICY VIS-A-VIS THE ISLAMIC WORLD:  THE U.S.A. & THE MIDDLE EAST IN A CHANGING WORLD -- THE BROAD LINES OF U.S. GOVERNMENT POLICY TOWARD ISLAM & THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT WHICH WERE LAID DOWN TWENTY YEARS AGO &, SINCE THAT TIME, HAVE BEEN ADHERED TO WITH REMARKABLE CONSISTENCY -- A FUNDAMENTALLY FAULTY ASSUMPTION AS THE ABIDING HOPE OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE & NEARLY THE WHOLE ESTABLISHMENT:  BELIEF THAT ISLAMISTS CAN BE AGENTS TO "BROADEN POLITICAL PARTICIPATION" -- THE REALITY:  A DEEPLY ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL & ANTI-DEMOCRATIC IDEOLOGY SUCH AS ISLAMISM CANNOT BRING ON DEMOCRATIZATION. SUCH AN IDEOLOGY SUPPORTS DICTATORSHIP, NOT CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY.

THE HIGHLY AUTHORITARIAN & RELENTLESSLY ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME IN IRAN:  IS THE REGIME LIKELY TO ENDURE? THE GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM SEEMINGLY OUT OF TOUCH WITH THE GENERAL POPULACE OF IRAN -- THE IRANIAN YOUTH CHAFFING UNDER THE "GUARDIANSHIP OF THE ISLAMIC JURISTS" -- IRAN'S SUFFERING ECONOMY, THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE POLICIES BEING PURSUED BY THE REGIME -- INCREASING TENSIONS BETWEEN THE MULLAHS & THE WEST -- THE DELINE OF ISLAMISM IN IRAN -- DOES THIS MAKE THE ISLAMIST REGIME'S COLLAPSE BOTH INEVITABLE & UNPREDICTABLE?

AFGHANISTAN & U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY:  CAN THE U.S.A. & THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION BE EXPECTED TO HAVE A GREATER DEGREE OF SUCCESS IN AFGHANISTAN THAN PREVIOUS EXTERNAL ENTITIES INVADING THE COUNTRY & TRYING TO EXERCISE POLITICAL INFLUENCE & CONTROL THEREIN?  WILL AMERICA & NATO HAVE ANY MORE SUCCESS IN AFGHANISTAN THAN DID ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN 329 BC, GENGHIS KHAN'S MONGOL ARMY IN 1221 BC, OR THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN 1839-1842 AD?

WHY THE U.S.A. SHOULD NOT SUPPORT THE "OPPOSITION" TO THE ASSAD REGIME IN SYRIA:  WHY THE OVERTHROW OF ASSAD WOULD NOT BE IN THE U.S. NATIONAL INTEREST -- ASSAD'S "OPPOSITION" AS PART OF THE WORDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD -- THE FATE OF SYRIA'S CHRISTIAN MINORITY, SHOULD THE ISLAMISTS SEIZE COMPLETE CONTROL OF THE COUNTRY -- THE SORRY PERFORMANCE OF U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA IN HANDLING AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

THE WISEST & MOST HUMANE COURSE OF ACTION FOR THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES TO FOLLOW IN RELOCATING MEMBERS OF THE MUJAHEDEEN-E KHALQ IN A NEW HOME, IN A SAFER & LESS HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT, OUTSIDE OF BOTH IRAQ & IRAN -- ABANDONMENT OF THE MEK, THE ORGANIZATION MOST FEARED BY THE TYRANTS IN TEHRAN, IS NOT A VIABLE FOREIGN POLICY OPTION FOR THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES.

WHAT THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES NEED TO DO, AS REGARDS EGYPT & IRAN:  DIRECT MILITARY ACTION AGAINST THE ISLAMISTS IN EGYPT & IRAN -- IN EGYPT:  SWIFT & EFFECTIVE U.S. MILITARY ACTION TO RESCUE AMERICAN HOSTAGES BEING HELD, AS WELL AS TERMINATION OF THE BILLION PLUS U.S. AID PROGRAM TO EGYPT -- IN IRAN:  DIRECT ALLIED MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN'S NUCLEAR FACILITIES, ITS MISSILE OPERATIONS, & THE BARRACKS OF THE REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS

ISRAELI MILITARY ACTION AGAINST THE IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME & ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM:  THOUGHTS ON THE LIKELYHOOD THAT ISRAEL WILL STRIKE IRAN IN APRIL, MAY, or JUNE, 2012

THE CURRENT MILITARY DICTATORSHIP IN EGYPT:  EVIDENCE THAT THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY RAN ARMORED VEHICLES OVER EGYPTIAN CIVILIANS -- THE U.S.A. AS THE LATEST VICTIM TO BE SCAPEGOATED FOR THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY'S CRIMES AGAINST ITS OWN CITIZENRY

THE HISTORY LESSON THAT PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA IS IGNORING:  SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM (IF YOU WANT PEACE, PREPARE FOR WAR) -- A MILITARILY & ECONOMICALLY STRONG SOCIETY IS LESS LIKELY TO BE ATTACKED BY ITS ENEMIES. A FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY OF SUCCESSFULLY MAINTAINING OVERWHELMING MILITARY & INDUSTRIAL STRENGTH GREATLY CONTRIBUTES TO A COUNTRY'S AVOIDING WARS. PRESIDENT OBAMA MAKES EVIDENT HIS ANTIPATHY OF THE ROLE OF THE U.S. MILITARY IN DEFENDING THE NATIONAL INTERESTS OF THE U.S.A., ENSURING THE SAFETY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, & MAINTAINING WORLD PEACE THROUGH AMERICAN MILITARY STRENGTH. OBAMA'S DETERMINATION TO REDUCE AMERICA'S MILITARY STRENGTH & CAPABILITIES IS PUTTING THE U.S.A. IN PERIL.

POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION, RATHER THAN TRUE EDUCATION & SCHOLARSHIP AT THE UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES: RABIDLY ANTI-ISRAELI, PRO-ARAB, &, AT TIMES, ANTI-SEMITIC POLITICAL PROPAGANDA DISSEMINATED BY A UCLA FACULTY MEMBER -- PROFESSOR SONDRA HALE'S RECENT RETIREMENT PROVIDES UCLA WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE AMENDS FOR THE YEARS OF AGITPROP & POLITICAL PROSTITUTION, REPLACING HALE WITH SOMEONE WHO WILL PURSUE DISINTERESTED, RIGOROUS SCHOLARSHIP.

THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH SUDAN:  THE WORLD'S MOST RECENTLY-ESTABLISHED INDEPENTDENT, SOVEREIGN NATION-STATE -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF SOUTH SUDAN & ITS PEOPLE -- THE LINK BETWEEN SOUTH SUDAN & THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- THE LINK BETWEEN SOUTH SUDAN & THE U.S.A. -- THE PROBABLE IMPACT OF A SUCCESSFUL SOUTH SUDAN ON POWER POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EASTERN REGION

WILL THE RECENT ELECTIONS IN EGYPT LEAD TO THE ESTABLISHMENT & OPERATION OF A STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY IN THE COUNTRY, OR WILL THE OUTCOME BE A TYRANNICAL ISLAMIST THEOCRATIC DICTATORSHIP?  ALTERNATIVELY, WILL EGYPT CONTINUE TO BE GOVERNED IN THE TRADITIONAL MANNER, BY AN AUTOCRACY BACKED BY & REPRESENTING THE INTERESTS OF THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY? WHAT ABOUT CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTION OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS? WILL THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT BE REQUIRED TO ABIDE BY THE CONSTITUTION, OBSERVE THE LIMITATIONS IMPOSED ON ITS POWER, & ALLOW SECULAR MUSLIMS, CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATS & CHRISTIAN COPTS, AMONG OTHERS, FREELY TO EXPRESS & ORGANIZE THEMSELVES & ENGAGE IN PEACEFUL POLITICAL ACTIVITIES? AS REGARDS EGYPT & ITS GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM, WHAT SHOULD BE THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN STATES?

FLUENCY IN ARABIC, AQUISITION & DISSEMINATION OF RELIABLE INFORMATION REGARDING ARABS, & THE EFFECTIVENESS U.S. FOREIGN POLICY INTENDED TO IMPACT ON THE BEHAVIOR OF ARAB SOCIETIES:  IS A COMMAND OF THE ARABIC LANGUAGE ESSENTIAL TO RESEARCH & WRITING ABOUT ARABS & MAKING FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THEM? NO! WHILE IT HELPS TO KNOW THE LANGUAGE, IT DOES NOT PROTECT AGAINST POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, RELIGIOUS DOGMATISM, FADDISM, PEDANTRY, OR MISINFORMATION. FLUENCY IN ARABIC GUARANTEES NEITHER QUALITY SCHOLARSHIP NOR POLICY INSIGHTS. KNOWLEDGE OF THE LANGUAGE DOES NOT TRUMP OTHER QUALIFICATIONS.

THE MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ESTABLISHMENT:  DANGEROUS INFILTRATION OF AMERICA'S INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION BY THE ISLAMIST ENEMY -- THE BULK OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROGRAMS BEING POLITICALLY INDOCTRINATED BY A FACULTY ELITE THAT IS UNSYMPATHETIC TO U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS & THAT REFUSES TO TEACH THE REAL HISTORY & POLITICS OF THE ISLAMIC JIHADISTS -- THE ISLAMIST LYNCH MOB PURSUING WALID PHARES

ANTI-ZIONISM & ANTI-SEMITISM AMONG ARABS:  CAN AN ARAB BE PRO-ISRAEL? THE ANSWER GIVEN BY LEFT-LEANING ACADEMICS -- HOW THE ANTI-ZIONIST & ANTI-SEMITIC BIAS OF U.S. & U.K. ACADEMIA HAS INFECTED MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, ISRAEL STUDIES, JEWISH STUDIES, & HOLOCAUST STUDIES -- THE BASTIONS OF INDEPENDENT & OBJECTIVE SCOLARSHIP RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING

U.S. MILITARY POLICY IN IRAQ:  WILL U.S. TROOPS REMAIN IN IRAQ AFTER THE END OF 2011?  THE IRAQIS' DESIRE FOR FURTHER AMERICAN TRAINING OF IRAQI SECURITY FORCES -- THE IRAQI MILITARY SEEN AS INCAPABLE OF DEFENDING THE COUNTRY FROM FOREIGN THREATS -- LACK OF IRAQI KNOW-HOW ON THE USE OF ADVANCE D WEAPONRY, SUCH AS FIGHTER JETS, WHICH THE MILITARY HAS BEEN PURCHASING -- NEGOTIATIONS BEING CARRIED ON BETWEEN THE U.S. & IRAQI GOVERNMENTS ON KEEPING AMERICAN MILITARY TRAINERS IN IRAQ AFTER THE DECEMBER 31, 2011, DEADLINE FOR TROOP WITHDRAWAL

WHY THE ARAB UPHEAVALS OF 2011 HAVE INSPIRED WILDLY INCONSISTENT WESTERN RESPONSES:  THE DIFFICULTY OF THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN POWERS DEVISING A CONSTRUCTIVE POLICY TOWARD THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST, A REGION WHERE POPULATIONS ARE PREDOMINANTLY HOSTILE TO THE WEST -- HOW ARAB DEMOCRACY TRANSLATES INTO ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIMES IN ARAB STATES -- ARAB DEMOCRACY AS A THREAT TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION, AS WELL AS THE WEST'S SECURITY -- MIDDLE EAST POLICY GUIDELINES FOR WESTERN STATES

LIBYA, IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, & OBAMA MYOPIA:  U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S CLUELESS & OVER-CONFIDENT STATEMENTS REGARDING THE MIDDLE EASTERN SITUATION -- OBAMA'S PHONY CLAIMS OF U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY SUCCESSES IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- HIS FAILURE TO GUARD HIS TONGUE & EXERCISE CAUTION -- WHAT WILL PROBABLY GO WRONG IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- WHY OBAMA & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL SOON RUE THE PRESIDENT'S RASH BOASTS -- POLITICAL PROBLEMS AHEAD FOR OBAMA & THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS -- THE POLITICAL LEFT & THE ELECTORAL DISASTER IT IS LIKELY TO EXPERIENCE IN THE 2012 FEDERAL ELECTIONS & IN SUBSEQUENT U.S. ELECTIONS

CYPRUS, ISRAEL, & INTERNATIONAL SECURITY:   CYPRUS BEING THREATENED BY AN OVER-CONFIDENT & POSSIBLY MESSIANIC TURKISH POLITICAL REGIME THAT INCREASINGLY MANIFESTS ROGUE ATTRIBUTES -- PROPOSALS FOR A FULL-ON ALLIANCE BETWEEN CYPRUS & ISRAEL -- THE ADVANTAGES THAT CYPRUS WOULD DERIVE FROM SUCH AN ISRAELI-CYPRIOT ALLIANCE -- WHAT ISRAEL WOULD GAIN FROM THE ALLIANCE -- THE IMPORTANT ROLES THAT THE U.S.A., NATO, GREECE, & THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION NEED TO PLAY IN ENCOURAGING CYPRIOT-ISRAELI RELATIONS & THEREBY DIMINISHING THE LIKELIHOOD OF AKP-LED TURKISH AGGRESSION

WHY TURKEY MAY BE ONE OF THE MOST DANGEROUS STATES IN THE MIDDLE EASTERN REGION:  TURKEY'S GOVERNMENT UNDER THE CONTROL & DIRECTION OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGUES IN THE AKP -- A POLITICAL OPPOSITION THAT IS WORST THAN THE AKP -- TURKEY FACING AN ECONOMIC & FINANCIAL COLLAPSE -- TURKEY FACING ESCALATING PROBLEMS WITH THE KURDS' CURRENT SEPARATIST REVOLT -- TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN & HIS ISLAMIST COLLEAGUES LOOKING FOR A FIGHT WITH ISRAEL -- RENEWAL OF ISRAEL'S HISTORICALLY WARM RELATIONS WITH THE KURDS & REVERSAL OF ITS COOL RELATIONS WITH GREECE, CYPRUS, & ARMENIA -- TURKEY ASSERTING RIGHTS OVER MEDITERRANEAN ENERGY RESERVES -- TURKEY'S OTHER INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS

WHY THE NATIONS & CONTINENTS OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD ARE ON EDGE: FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY ON THE PART OF MANY NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS -- UNWISE ECONOMIC POLICIES IMPLEMENTED BY THESE GOVERNMENTS -- GOVERNMENTS & INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS CATERING TO THE RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST MOVEMENT -- THE THREAT TO WORLD PEACE POSED BY THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT -- THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY & THE AMERICAN POLITICAL LEFT IN A CONCERTED DRIVE TO TRANSFORM AMERICA INTO A COLLECTIVIST ECONOMIC & SOCIAL SYSTEM

THE CONTINUING CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ISRAELI JEWS & THEIR ISLAMIC NEIGHBORS IN THE MIDDLE EAST:   SINCE ITS FOUNDING IN 1948, THE STATE OF ISRAEL HAS BEEN THROUGH FIVE WARS WITH ITS MIDDLE EASTERN NEIGHBORS, ENDLESS PALESTINIAN TERRORISM & ROCKETING, & OPEN THREATS OF NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION BY IRAN. THE PALESTINIANS HAVING REFUSED EVERY OFFER OF PEACE & STATEHOOD MADE TO THEM, THE CURRENT DEMAND FOR A PALESTINIAN STATE IS INTENDED TO HEAT UP & KEEP ALIVE THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, AS WELL AS THE ISLAMIST GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST ISRAEL & THE WEST.

PALESTINIAN LEADERS' REJECTION OF A TWO-STATE SOLUTION TO THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:   PALESTINIANS SEEKING UNITED NATIONS RECOGNITION OF PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD & APPLYING PRESSURE FOR A COMPLETE ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, WITHOUT A PEACE AGREEMENT, OR, INDEED, ANY QUID PRO QUO -- CONTINUING PALESTINIAN ARAB REJECTION OF A NEGOTIATED SETTLEMENT & LAYING THE DIPLOMATIC GROUNDWORK FOR RENEWAL OF THE ASSAULT ON THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- WHAT PALESTINIAN LEADERS ENVISAGE:  DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH STATE, ARAB OCCUPATION OF THE TOTALITY OF ISRAEL & PALESTINE, & THE PERMANENT DEPARTURE OF VIRTUALLY ALL JEWS FROM THE AREA -- ARAB-ADMINISTERED ETHNIC CLEANSING OF JEWS

A SMALL GROUP OF REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN WHO CONSISTENTLY WARNED OF JIHADIST TERRORISM FOR MORE THAN A DECADE BEFORE THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2011, ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACKS ON THE U.S.A.:  THE WORK OF THE REPUBLICAN TASK FORCE ON TERRORISM & UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE -- TASK FORCE WARNINGS OF LOOMING DANGER IGNORED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

THE U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE IN IRAQ:  SHOULD U.S. TROOPS BE KEPT IN IRAQ BEYOND THE ORIGINAL WITHDRAWAL DEADLINE OF DECEMBER 31, 2011? THE VIEW OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE LEON PANETTA -- THE VIEW OF SENIOR U.S. MILITARY FIGURES -- THE LATTER VIEW BASED ON FOUR LINES OF ARGUMENT THAT ULTIMATELY DO NOT STAND UP TO SCRUTINY

THE EFFECTS OF WORLD WAR IV ON THE AMERICAN NATION:  A NEW KIND OF ENEMY & MAJOR CHANGES IN U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY -- RESTRUCTURING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO ENABLE IT TO EFFECTIVELY COPE WITH THE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- THE U.S.A. WITH NEW COALITIONS & NEW PARTNERS IN THE ARENA OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- U.S. MILITARY FORCES EVOLVING TO DEAL WITH THE CHANGED GEOPOLITICAL SITUATION IN THE WORLD AT LARGE -- THE 9/11 ATTACKS, TRANFORMATION OF THE U.S.A., & THE FUTURE DIRECTION OF U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY

OUR NARROW APPROACH TO THE GLOBAL TERROR WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST US BY THE WORLD-WIDE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT -- THE BROADER CONTEXT THAT IS NEEDED FOR WESTERN ANALYSIS & ACTION:  AL-QA'IDA HAS NEVER BEEN THE SOURCE OF THE ISLAMIST TERROR THREAT TO THE U.S.A. & THE WEST, BUT SIMPLY ONE OF THE MANY MANIFESTATIONS OF THAT THREAT. THE SOURCE OF THE TERROR THREAT IS ISLAM & ISLAMIC CULTURE. THE MUSLIM WORLD HAS LARGELY REJECTED WESTERN SECULARISM & IS RECLAIMING ITS JIHADIST HERITAGE, LASHING OUT AT WESTERNERS IN A MANIFOLD OF WAYS. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ISLAM & THE WEST CONTINUES TO GROW. THERE ARE COUNTLESS JIHADIST GROUPS THAT SEEK TO SUBJUGATE THE WEST. DOCTRINAL IDEOLOGIES FLOATING AMONG MUSLIMS AROUND THE WORLD (INCLUDING MUSLIMS RESIDING IN WESTERN COUNTRIES) CREATE THE ISLAMIST TERROR THREAT.

WITH MUAMAR QADDAFI VOWING A WIN OR MARTYRDOM & BASHAR ASSAD BEING URGED BY THE WEST TO STEP DOWN, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE ARAB SPRING THIS SUMMER? HAS IT BEEN A SUMMER OF PROGRESS TOWARD FREEDOM & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST, OR IS IT A MEDIA DELUSION? WHERE STANDS THE ARAB SPRING AS WE PREPARE TO MARK THE TENTH ANNIVERSITY OF THE SEPTEMBER 11 ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACKS ON THE U.S.A.?

THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY:  TENOR OF A FAILED ADMINISTRATION -- FURTIVE GAMBITS THAT PAINFULLY EXPOSE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S AMATEURISH, DECEITFUL, & BANKRUPT POLICIES TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISLAMIC WORLD -- CLEAR SIGNS OF AN INEFFECTIVE & UNRELIABLE ADMINISTRATION IN PANIC OVER ITS LOWEST-EVER POLL RATINGS & TRYING TO REVIVE ITS POLITICAL FORTUNES BY WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY, EVEN IF ITS DISHONESTY MIGHT EXPOSE IT TO RIDICULE -- THE U.S.A. CURRENTLY UNDER A SET OF VERY POOR NATIONAL LEADERS WHO ARE MAKING A SHAMBLES OF AMERICA'S FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN NEAR EAST ASIA & ELSEWHERE

HOW MANY PEOPLE DO MUSLIM ARABS HAVE TO KILL BEFORE WE GET AROUND TO FIGURING OUT THAT ISLAM IS A MURDEROUS CULT, THE MEMBERS OF WHICH HAVE BEEN KILLING EACH OTHER SINCE THE SUNNI-SHIITE SCHISM SHORTLY AFTER THE DEATH OF MUHAMMAD, AS WELL AS SLAUGHTERING CONQUERED NON-MUSLIMS WHO WOULD NOT CONVERT TO ISLAM OR PAY EXTORTION TO ISLAMIC REGIMES?  THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST AS THE MOST REPRESSIVE & TYRANNICAL REGION IN THE WORLD -- THE MIDDLE EAST AS THE MOST VIOLENT & WAR-LIKE REGION -- HEZBOLLAH & ITS THREAT TO ISRAEL & THE WEST

THE "ARAB SPRING" UPRISINGS:  THEIR ADVERSE IMPACT ON U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- OBAMA'S UNDERMINING & DESERTION OF EGYPT'S MUBARAK, DESTROYING A U.S. ALLY & CONDEMNING THE ISRAELI-ARAB PEACE PROCESS TO FAILURE -- OBAMA'S JUNE 4, 2009, CAIRO SPEECH AS OBAMA'S STRATEGIC BLUNDER & THE DEFINING MOMENT IN THE GRADUAL EROSION OF THE U.S. POSITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST

THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD ARABS & THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST:  THE SPECTACULAR INEPTITUDE OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IN DEALING WITH THE ISLAMIC THREAT TO THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- THE IRRECONCILABLE CONFLICT BETWEEN PRESIDENT OBAMA'S PERCEPTIONS & THE REALITY OF CURRENT & PAST EVENTS OCCURRING IN &/OR ASSOCIATED WITH ISLAM & THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE HISTORY OF ISLAM AS A HISTORY OF MILITARY AGGRESSION, CONQUEST, TYRANNY, & BRUTALITY -- ISLAM AS A SAVAGE POLITICAL RELIGION BENT ON GLOBAL DOMINATION -- OBAMA CLUELESS, AS REGARDS THE TRUE NATURE & DANGEROUS AGENDA OF ISLAMISM & THE WORLD-WIDE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT

HOW YEMEN THREATENS THE OUTSIDE WORLD:  YEMEN AS AN EXPORTER OF VIOLENCE & TERRORISM -- AN UNPRECEDENTED EMPTYING OUT OF YEMEN, WITH MILLIONS OF UNSKILLED & UNINVITED REFUGEES, FIRST IN THE MIDDLE EAST, THEN IN THE WEST, DEMANDING ECONOMIC ASYLUM -- AN INCREASINGLY CATACLYSMIC WATER SHORTFALL -- SCARCE FOOD RESOURCES, WITH THE NUMBER OF YEMENIS WHO FACE CHRONIC HUNGER GROWING RAPIDLY -- THE PROSPECT OF ECONOMIC IMPLOSION LOOMING LARGER BY THE DAY -- YEMEN AS A POOR COUNTRY WITH ONE OF THE HIGHEST BIRTH RATES IN THE WORLD, EXAZERBATING THE RESOURCE PROBLEM -- TOO MANY FACTIONS COMPETING FOR POLITICAL POWER IN YEMEN -- THE GROWING POWER OF YEMENI ISLAMISTS -- CAN THE OUTSIDE WORLD PREVENT CATASTROPHE IN YEMEN?

THE 2008 U.S. DISTRICT COURT CIVIL JUDGEMENT AGAINST THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT FOR ITS COMPLICITY IN ACTS OF JIHADIST TERRORISM AGAINST U.S. CITIZENS:  A $413 MILLION CIVIL JUDGEMENT AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OF SYRIA FOR ITS PROVISION OF SUPPORT & MATERIAL AID TO THE KILLERS OF TWO AMERICAN CONTRACTORS IN IRAQ -- THE COURT'S RULING IN GATES VERSUS SYRIA (2008):  SYRIA "SUPPORTED, PROTECTED, HARBORED, & SUBSIDIZED" THE IRAQ-BASED TERRORIST GROUP HEADED BY ABU MUS'AB AL-ZARQAWI, THUS BEING CULPABLE FOR THE BEHEADING OF TWO U.S. CONTRACTORS BY THIS GROUP -- SYRIA'S APPEAL IN THE CASE STILL PENDING -- WHAT IS LIKELY TO HAPPEN IF THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT LOSES THE CASE ON APPEAL?

THE GREAT OPPORTUNITIES THE REVOLT IN SYRIA OFFERS THE WEST -- WHAT THE WESTERN STATES MUST DO:   QUICKLY & ROBUSTLY SEIZE THE MOMENT TO DISPATCH BASHAR AL-ASSAD & HIS ACCOMPLICES -- THE MANY BENEFITS THAT WILL FOLLOW WHEN THE ASSAD REGIME REACHES ITS APPOINTED DUSTBIN OF HISTORY -- FOREIGN & GEOPOLITICAL BENEFITS --DOMESTIC & HUMANITARIAN BENEFITS -- ONE POTENTIAL DANGER OF REGIME CHANGE IN SYRIA -- SUNNIS VERSUS ALAWIS -- HOW WESTERN POLICY CAN MAKE A DECISIVE DIFFERENCE

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S SPEECH ON U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST:  CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST VERSUS THE ALTERNATIVE, ISLAMIST RULE -- MAJORITARIAN DICTATORSHIP IN MUSLIM-MAJORITY COUNTRIES -- THE FATE OF CHRISTIANS, JEWS, & OTHER NON-MUSLIM MINORITIES IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD -- MINORITY RIGHTS & SHARIA LAW -- OBAMA'S WEAK & CONTRADICTORY ANALYSIS

WHICH CAME FIRST, THE TERRORIST LEADER OSAMA BIN LADEN OR THE ISLAMIST JIHAD AGAINST NON-MUSLIMS? DID OSAMA BIN LADEN "CREATE" THE IDEA OF JIHAD, OR DID THE CENTURIES-OLD DOCTRINE OF JIHAD, SUPPLEMENTED BY KORANIC VERSES TO "STRIKE TERROR INTO THE HEARTS OF INFIDELS," CREATE THE OSAMA BIN LADEN PHENOMENON? THE FLAWED ANALYSIS OF COMMENTATORS IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA OF THE WEST: HOW TERRIBLY MYOPIC OF MAINSTREAM MEDIA ANALYSTS TO CONCLUDE THAT THE DEATH OF BIN LADEN -- OF ONE MAN -- CAN, IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM, ELIMINATE THE THREAT OF JIHAD, WHICH HAS A 1,400-YEAR LINEAGE -- INABILITY OR UNWILLINGNESS OF THE MOST CELEBRATED PUNDITS OF THE WEST TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN CAUSE & EFFECT -- HOW MANY MUSLIM CHARISMATIC LEADERS & IDEOLOGUES HAVE COME & GONE, ONLY FOR THE JIHAD TO RAGE ON?

THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY, THE POLITICAL LEFT, ANTI-SEMITISM, & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY RELATING TO THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE SUBTLE & NOT-SO-SUBTLE WAYS IN WHICH THE LIBERAL LEFTIST OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DEMONSTRATES ITS ANTI-ISRAELI BIAS & ITS PRO-ISLAMIC TILT -- OBAMA SEEKING TO UNDERMINE THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- MAKING IT POSSIBLE FOR ISRAEL'S ISLAMIST ENEMIES TO REALIZE THEIR ULTIMATE GOAL, NAMELY, TO WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY & THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT:  U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S PEACE INITIATIVE SIDELINED BY PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS' REFUSAL TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATING WITH ISRAEL, IN THE ABSENCE OF APRIORI ISRAELI CONCESSIONS -- THE PALESTINIAN DEMAND FOR AN INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION OF STATEHOOD FOR PALESTINE AT THE NEXT SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY -- THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY'S PROPOSED UN RESOLUTION (1) FORMALLY RECOGNIZING THE EXISTENCE OF A PALESTINIAN STATE, (2) PROVIDING FOR ADMISSION OF PALESTINE AS A MEMBER-STATE OF THE UNITED NATIONS, (3) DECLARING THAT THE PRE-1967 ARMISTICE LINE SHOULD BE THE BASIS FOR FUTURE NEGOTIATIONS OVER PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI BORDERS, & (4) PROVIDING THAT EASTERN JERUSALEM IS TO BE THE CAPITAL OF THE PALESTINIAN STATE

THE ROLE OF JANUS-FACED PAKISTAN IN THE ISLAMIST JIHAD AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST:  HOW & WHY PAKISTAN'S SECURITY & INTELLIGENCE ESTABLISHMENT PROVIDES AID & PROTECTION TO ISLAMIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS AL-QA'IDA & THE TALIBAN -- GENERAL AWARENESS AMONG PAKISTANIS THAT THE ISI WAS PROVIDING OSAMA BIN LADEN HAVEN & PROTECTION WITHIN THE BORDERS OF PAKISTAN -- PAKISTAN'S UNRELIABILITY AS AN ALLY OF THE WEST IN THE WAR AGAINST ISLAMISM

U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY, AS IT RELATES TO PAKISTAN & ITS PRO-ISLAMIST GOVERNMENT:   WHAT SHOULD THE U.S. GOVERNMENT DO ABOUT THE CRISIS IN U.S.-PAKISTAN RELATIONS?  GIVE UP ON THE PRETENCE THAT THE TWO COUNTRIES ARE ALLIES & TREAT PAKISTAN (WITH ITS MANY MADRASSAHS, ITS ISLAMIST MILITARY LEADERSHIP, & ITS ROGUE INTELLIGENCE SERVICE) AS A DANGER ZONE.  ADOPT A POLICY OF CONTAINMENT OF THE ISLAMISM COMING OUT OF PAKISTAN, REWARDING COOPERATION & PUNISHING HOSTILE ACTS.  DEVELOP AMERICA'S FLEXIBILITY TO COLLABORATE OR CONFRONT, AS CHANGING CIRCUMSTANCES WARRANT.

THE HISTORY & CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD, THE MUSLIM RELIGION, THE ISLAMIST POLITICAL IDEOLOGY, & THE ISLAMIC CONCEPTION OF THE JIHAD:  THE JIHAD PLACED IN CONTEXT -- THE PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE OF THE KILLING OF OSAMA BIN LADEN:  BIN LADEN'S DEATH, WHILE INTRINSICALLY GOOD, HAS NO INSTRUMENTAL VALUE AGAINST THE JIHAD, A PHENOMENON THAT "TRANSCENDS TIME" & IS "GREATER THAN ANY INDIVIDUAL." THE GLOBAL JIHAD WAGED BY THE ISLAMISTS AGAINST AMERICA & WESTERN CIVILIZATION WILL CONTINUE UNDER HIGHLY EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP, DOING SO UNTIL EITHER WE IN THE WEST DESTROY ISLAMISM & ITS SUPPORTERS OR OUR JIHADIST ENEMIES DESTROY US. THERE CAN BE NO "PEACE IN OUR TIME," ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH APPEASEMENT & ACCOMODATION ON OUR PART. THE CURRENT GLOBAL CONFLICT IS A SITUATION OF KILL OR BE KILLED.

ISLAM, ISLAMISM, & JIHADISM:  THE ISLAMIC CENTRAL CONCEPT OF JIHAD -- THE QUR'AN AS A BATTLE PLAN FOR THE CONQUEST OF THE WORLD BY ISLAM -- JIHAD AS A SACRED DUTY FOR ALL MUSLIMS -- ISLAM AS ONE BIG HATE CRIME DIRECTED AT ALL OTHER RELIGIOUS FAITHS -- WHY "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS" REGARDING HOW WE DEAL WITH MUSLIM DEMANDS IN THE U.S.A. IS A SERIOUS DANGER TO THE AMERICAN NATION & THE REMAINDER OF THE NON-MUSLIM WORLD -- THE GREATEST ALLIES OF OUR ENEMIES IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS:  THOSE WHO RECOMMEND THAT WE PURSUE A FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY CHARACTERIZED BY ISOLATIONISM & PASSIVITY, APPEASEMENT & ACCOMODATION, SURRENDER & SUBMISSION, & NEGLECT OF OUR DEFENSE FORCES & MILITARY PREPAREDNESS

AS EGYPT LURCHES INTO A NEW ERA, WHAT IS THE COUNTRY'S PROBABLE POLITICAL COURSE?  WILL THE SPIRIT OF TAHIR SQUARE HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT?  WILL THE POLITICAL SYSTEM BE A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, AN ISLAMIST THEOCRATIC REGIME, OR A CONTINUATION OF AUTHORITARIAN RULE BY THE EGYPTIAN MILITARY?

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE ISLAMIC WORLD: LACK OF ANY KIND OF COHESIVE POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST, REFLECTING THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S ABYSMAL IGNORANCE OF THAT REGION OF THE WORLD & THE FORCES AT WORK WITHIN IT -- WHAT AMERICA SHOULD DO TO EXTRICATE ITSELF FROM THE MIDDLE EASTERN MESS

TURKEY, ISLAMISM, & TURKISH AMBITIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE OBJECTIVES OF CONTEMPORARY TURKISH FOREIGN POLICY -- THE ISLAMIST CHARACTER OF TURKEY'S CURRENT POLITICAL REGIME -- PRESENT-DAY TURKEY AS AN ALLY OF IRAN, SYRIA, & LIBYA & AS AN ENEMY OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES TO THWART TURKEY'S AMBITION TO LEAD & RESHAPE THE ISLAMIST REVOLUTION IN THE MUSLIM WORLD -- POSSIBLE METHODS TO BLOCK AKP INFLUENCE

THE INTENTION OF IRAN'S PSYCHOTIC AYATOLLAHS:  ENABLE IRAN TO SECURE A NUCLEAR MILITARY CAPABILITY & USE THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO ATTACK & HOPEFULLY DESTROY, FIRST, THE STATE OF ISRAEL, & THEN, EUROPE & THE U.S.A. -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SHIITE RELIGIOUS FANATICISM & IRAN'S MILITARY STRATEGY & ASPIRATIONS -- WHY THE COLD WAR IDEA OF "MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION" DOES NOT FUNCTION AS A DETERRENT IN THE CONFLICT BETWEEN IRAN & THE WEST -- MASSIVE DESTRUCTION AS BEING ESSENTIAL TO BRINGING ABOUT THE SHIITE END TIMES SCENARIO -- THE ROLE OF THE TWELFTH IMAM IN THE PROCESS

THE SURREAL & INCREASINGLY IRRATIONAL WORLD IN WHICH WE LIVE:  A WORLD IN WHICH IRATE RADICAL MUSLIMS & GROVELING WESTERN APPEASERS OBSESS OVER THE DESTRUCTION OF ONE BOOK, WHILE IGNORING THE DESTRUCTION OF MANY HUMAN LIVES -- A WORLD WHERE EXERCISE OF A GUARANTEED & HARD-EARNED AMERICAN RIGHT, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, RESULTS IN A LOT OF CONDEMNATORY HUFFING & PUFFING FROM THOSE CHARGED WITH THE DUTY OF PROTECTING THAT RIGHT, WHILE MURDEROUS & BARBAROUS (I.E., EVIL) BEHAVIOR ON THE PART OF ISLAMIST ENEMIES OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST IS DEVOUTLY IGNORED

THE PURPOSE & GOALS OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN ISLAMIC NORTH AFRICA:  OBAMA EXPLAINING HIS ADMINISTRATION'S POLICY TOWARD LIBYA VIA SENTIMENTAL & IDEALISTIC PLATITUDES, RATHER THAN ON THE BASIS OF REALITY, THE LONG VIEW, OR JUST PLAIN COMMON SENSE -- INVOKING MORALIZING INTONATIONS, INSTEAD OF SPECIFYING CONCRETE U.S. NATIONAL INTERESTS AS JUSTIFICATION FOR OUR MILITARY INTERVENTION INTO THE NORTH AFRICAN CRISES -- OBAMA'S BLIND SPOTS & FAULTY LOGIC, AS REGARDS THE POSSIBILITY OF THE ISLAMISTS RISING TO POWER IN NORTH AFRICA -- THE RECENT U.S. MILITARY & POLITICAL HISTORY LESSONS THAT OBAMA HAS FAILED TO GRASP & PROFIT FROM

REVOLUTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  UPRISINGS IN LIBYA, EGYPT, SYRIA, & YEMEN -- CAN THE NATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF THE U.S.A. SUCESSFULLY PROMOTE CONSTITUTIONAL & GOVERNMENTAL REFORM IN THOSE COUNTRIES, PREVENTING THE ISLAMISTS FROM ACQUIRING POLITICAL CONTROL OVER THE FOUR MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES? CAN CONSTITUIONAL DEMOCRACY BE ESTABLISHED THERE, OR WILL THE COUNTRIES CONTINUE TO BE RULED BY AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES, WHETHER ISLAMIST OR TRADITIONAL MILITARY OR MONARCHICAL?

WESTERN LEADERS MISREADING THE IDEOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW OF THE MEMBERS & SUPPORTERS OF THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST MOVEMENT:  A DANGEROUSLY DELUSIONAL MISREADING OF MILITANT ISLAM & ITS STRATEGY FOR ACHIEVING POLITICAL CONTROL & DOMINATION OF THE ENTIRE WORLD -- FLAWED ANALYSIS OF SUCH ISLAMIST ORGANIZATIONS AS AL-QA'IDA, HAMAS, & THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

A QUESTION PROMPTED BY RECENT FIGHTING IN LIBYA:  SHOULD U.S. TROOPS BE DEPLOYED TO LIBYA IN ORDER TO FIGHT A GROUND WAR AGAINST & ASSIST IN THE OVERTHROW OF MU'AMMAR AL-QADDAFI'S TYRANNICAL REGIME? THE DIFFICULTIES INVOLVED IN ENDEAVORING TO MAINTAIN A NO-FLY ZONE OVER LIBYA -- ALTERNATIVES TO A NO-FLY ZONE -- THE LEGITIMATE PURPOSE OF U.S. MILITARY ACTION IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES:  TO ACHIEVE HUMANITARIAN GOALS FOR OTHER PEOPLES, OR TO FORWARD SPECIFIC AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS?

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS & WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION:  NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION & THE IMPORTANCE OF U.S. MILITARY READINESS TO COPE WITH THE THREAT -- MUAMMAR QADDAFI'S ULTIMATE CAPITULATION TO THE U.S.A. ON THE MATTER OF LIBYA'S SEEKING TO ACQUIRE NUCLEAR WEAPONRY -- THE INTRANSIGENCE OF IRAN'S MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, WHO IS PRESSING FORWARD IN HIS RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS, WITH NO INTENTION WHATSOEVER OF ARRIVING AT A PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT ON THE MATTER WITH THE U.S.A. -- U.S. SUCCESS IN GETTING LIBYA TO TERMINATE ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM & U.S. FAILURE TO PERSUADE IRAN TO DO LIKEWISE -- THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BASED ON STRENGTH & PRINCIPLE & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS MIRED IN BLIND IDEALISM & WEAKNESS

A NEW ERA IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST?  DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ARAB REVOLTS CURRENTLY OCCURING IN THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISLAMIST REVOLTS THAT OCCURRED DURING THE LAST CENTURY -- PERCEPTIONS OF A NEW REVOLUTIONARY ERA IN WHICH INFANTILIZED ARABIC-SPEAKERS MATURE INTO ADULTS -- THE SENSE THAT THE PAST CENTURY'S ISLAMIST EXTREMISM HAS RUN ITS COURSE, THAT POPULATIONS SEEK SOMETHING MORE MUNDANE & CONSUMABLE THAN RHETORIC, REJECTIONISM, & BACKWARDNESS

POPULAR DISCONTENT, REVOLUTION, & REGIME CHANGE IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST: WILL THE CONSEQUENCE OF THESE EVENTS NECESSARILY BE ESTABLISHMENT & PERPETUATION OF CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, THE RULE OF LAW, & CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE & PROTECTION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS & LIBERTIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN? WILL THE RIGHTS & VITAL INTERESTS OF MINORITIES BE SAFEGUARDED FROM TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY?

"DEMOCRACY" DOES NOT NECESSARILY INCLUDE THE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM OR CIVIL LIBERTIES GUARANTEES ASSOCIATED WITH WESTERN-STYLE CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY.  "DEMOCRACY" CAN & OFTEN DOES MEAN UNLIMITED RULE BY THE MAJORITY, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO PROTECTION OF MINORITY RIGHTS.   "DEMOCRACY" CAN MEAN "MAJORITARIAN DICTATORSHIP," OR "TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY," RATHER THAN A FREE, PLURALISTIC, & SECULAR SOCIETY

THE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT IN EGYPT & THE COUNTRY'S POLITICAL FUTURE:  THE MILITARY LEADERSHIP'S WEIGHTY RESPONSIBILITY OF SHEPHERDING THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION TOWARD FRUITION OF THE POPULAR DEMANDS FOR POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY, THE RULE OF LAW, INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, & ECONOMIC PROSPERITY -- CAN THE ISLAMISTS BE PREVENTED FROM SEIZING CONTROL OF EGYPT?  HAS EGYPT'S MILITARY LEADERSHIP LEARNED & MATURED ENOUGH TO GOVERN THE COUNTRY EFFECTIVELY & HONESTLY?  DOES IT REALIZE THAT CONTINUING TO PURSUE ITS SELFISH INTERESTS WILL LEAD TO FURTHER DECAY & CORRUPTION?

ISLAM, CHINA, & RUSSIA:  THREE VERY SERIOUS THREATS TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- MAJOR FLAWS IN U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY -- AMERICAN NATIONAL LEADERS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND ISLAM AS WE WOULD LIKE IT TO BE, RATHER THAN HOW COUNTLESS DEVOUT MUSLIMS UNDERSTAND IT -- AMERICA'S FAILURE TO BUILD A MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM CAPABLE OF DEFENDING AGAINST A SHIP-LAUNCHED MISSILE ATTACK BY IRAN OR A BALLISTIC MISSILE ATTACK FROM CHINA OR RUSSIA -- DEGRADATION OF AMERICAN STRATEGIC THINKING DURING & AFTER THE COLD WAR -- OUR EXCEEDINGLY FOOLISH POLICY TOWARD RUSSIA DURING THE LAST TWO DECADES -- THE NEW START TREATY UNDERCUTTING OUR STRATEGIC DEFENSE POLICY -- CHINA OPENLY PLAYING THE ROLE THAT THE SOVIET UNION ONCE PLAYED AS CHIEF SPONSOR OF GLOBAL CONFLICT WITH THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- HIGH TIME FOR US AMERICANS TO REMIND OUR REPRESENTATIVES & SENATORS IN WASHINGTON, D.C., OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENT THAT THE U.S. CONGRESS PROVIDE FOR A COMMON DEFENSE, IN THE TRUE SENSE OF THE EXPRESSION

DISLOYALTY, SUBVERSION, SEDITION, & TREASON:  THE ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN IN THE U.S.A. -- THE INTERNAL THREAT POSED BY RADICALIZED AMERICAN MUSLIMS -- THE NEED FOR AMERICA'S NATIONAL LEADERS TO BREAK DOWN THE WALLS OF "CULTURAL SENSITIVITY," "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS," & SELF-CENSORSHIP & DRIVE THE PUBLIC DEBATE ON ISLAMIC RADICALIZATION -- HOW FUNDAMENTAL VALUES OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, SUCH AS PERSONAL FREEDOM, RULE OF LAW & HUMAN DIGNITY, HAVE THE CAPACITY TO RADICALIZE MUSLIMS, WHEN THOSE VALUES ARE ARTICULATED THROUGH AN ISLAMIST FRAMEWORK -- THE DOMESTIC & FOREIGN POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF THE FACT THAT MANY AMERICAN MUSLIMS, THOUGH BORN, REARED, & EDUCATED IN THE U.S.A. & ENJOYING THE BENEFITS OF LIFE IN AMERICA, ARE EMBRACING ISLAMISM, BECOMING JIHADISTS, & TAKING UP ARMS AGAINST THE U.S.A.

THE ISLAMIST THREAT TO AMERICA & THE WEST:  THE SEVERE SHORTAGE OF REALISTIC THINKING & ANALYSIS ON THE PART OF LEFT-OF-THE-CENTER WESTERNERS -- LIBERAL LEFTIST BLINDSPOTS, AS REGARDS ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONS & THEIR CONSEQUENCES -- WHAT HAS EMBOLDENED & ENERGIZED ISLAM IN THE CONTEMPORARY ERA & GIVEN RISE TO THE ISLAMIST GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- DISSOLUTION OF THE FORMER CULTURAL, MORAL, & SPIRITUAL STRENGTH OF THE PEOPLES OF THE WEST -- THE CRUMBLING & IMPLOSION OF WESTERN CULTURE, FOLLOWING ITS ADOPTION OF THE MORAL BANKRUPTCY OF MARX & THE EMPTY PROMISES OF SOCIALISM & LEFTWING STATISM -- WESTERN CULTURE CHARACTERIZED BY MORAL CONFUSION & STEEPED IN SELF-DESTRUCTIVE THINKING PROLIFERATED BY POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFTISTS IN THE SCHOOLS, MEDIA, & POP CULTURE -- WESTERN CULTURE SO SECULARIZED & DEVOID OF GUIDING PRINCIPLES THAT THE WEST CANNOT SEE CLEAR TO MAKE A PHILOSOPHICAL STAND AGAINST THE ENCROACHMENT OF ISLAM ON ANY GROUNDS WHATSOEVER

WAZIRISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, & PAKISTAN:  WAZIRISTAN AS A DANGEROUS & UNPREDICTABLE REGION WITH THE POTENTIAL TO UNHINGE PRESIDENT HAMID KARZAI'S FRAGILE REGIME IN AFGHANISTAN, THREATEN THE PAKISTANI GOVERNMENT, & POSE A MAJOR CHALLENGE TO REGIONAL STABILITY -- HELPING POLICYMAKERS UNDERSTAND & ADDRESS PRESENT-DAY PROBLEMS IN THE WIZIRISTAN REGION -- PERTINENT LESSONS TO BE DERIVED FROM THE BRITISH EMPIRE'S EXPERIENCE IN THE REGION DURING THE NINETEENTH & EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES

THE SUBVERSIVE & TREASONABLE CHARACTER OF MANY U.S. COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES:  THE PROFESSORS' DEMAND THAT ISRAEL, A SOVEREIGN STATE & ALLY OF THE U.S.A., NEGOTIATE WITH HAMAS, AN ISLAMIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION RESPONSIBLE FOR MURDERING & MAIMING NUMEROUS INNOCENT ISRAELIS & DEDICATED TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- WHY STRATEGIES INVOLVING ISRAEL'S ACCEPTANCE OF & NEGOTIATION WITH HAMAS ARE ILL-ADVISED -- A CRITIQUE OF THE CONSTANT ACADEMIC CRITICISMS OF ISRAELI POLICY & SOCIETY

ISLAM & WAR:  ISLAM, THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT, & THE GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST AMERICA, THE WEST, & THE ENTIRE NON-MUSLIM WORLD -- POLITICAL ISLAM & ITS INHERENTLY VIOLENT & WARLIKE NATURE -- WHY STABLE, CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IS NOT LIKELY TO DEVELOP AS THE GOVERNING SYSTEM OF AN ISLAMIC SOCIETY -- THE CONFLICT BETWEEN SUNNIS & SHIAS -- MUSLIMS PERSECUTING CHRISTIANS IN MUSLIM-MAJORITY COUNTRIES -- IRAN, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, & GLOBAL WAR

THE OUTCOME OF THE EGYPTIAN UPRISING:  WILL THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION RESULT IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SOME SORT OF PLURALISTIC CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY AS THE GOVERNING SYSTEM OF EGYPT, OR WILL THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TAKE OVER CONTROL OF THE COUNTRY & IMPOSE AN ISLAMIST DICTATORSHIP?  WHAT SHOULD THE U.S.A. DO ABOUT THE SITUATION IN EGYPT?  SHOULD AMERICA GIVE SUPPORT TO THE SECULARISTS & OPPOSE THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD?

ISLAM AS A DEADLY & IMPLACABLE ENEMY OF AMERICA & THE WEST:  AN ENEMY THAT IS DETERMINED TO DESTROY THE U.S.A., THE WEST & THE STATE OF ISRAEL, AS WELL AS SUBJUGATE OR EXTERMINATE CHRISTIANS, JEWS, & ALL OTHER NON-MUSLIMS -- AN ENEMY THAT CANNOT BE ACCOMMODATED, THAT NEGOTIATES WITH THE END GOAL OF ACHIEVING DOMINATION, & THAT CANNOT BE DETERRED EXCEPT THROUGH THE USE OF FORCE -- A HIGHLY POLITICIZED RELIGION WHOSE ADHERENTS MUST BE EITHER CONVERTED OR DEFEATED

EGYPT'S MOMENT OF CRISIS & THE PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES:  THE UPRISING IN EGYPT & THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION OF 1979 -- THE IRANIAN ISLAMISTS & THEIR ASPIRATION FOR DOMINANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE MIDDLE EAST & THE REGIONAL COLD WAR -- THE IRANIAN-LED RESISTANCE BLOC VERSUS THE SAUDI-LED STATUS QUO BLOCK -- THE MILITARY FORCES VERSUS THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT -- THE OLD GUARD IN TUNISIA & WHAT IS LIKELY TO BE THE OUTCOME OF THE TURMOIL IN EGYPT -- U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE SITUATION & ROLE OF ISRAEL IN THE REGIONAL CONFLICT

THE CONTEXT OF THE TURMOIL IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST:  THE CULTURE & HISTORY, PAST & RECENT, OF THE COUNTRIES & PEOPLES COMPRISING THE MIDDLE EAST -- GEOPOLITICAL RELEVANCE OF THE MIDDLE EAST TO AMERICAN & WESTERN INTERESTS -- LOCATION, PEOPLES, & NATURAL RESOURCES -- WESTERN IMPERIALISM -- THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE -- WORLD WARS I & II -- THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- ARAB NATIONALISM & PAN-ARAB NATIONALISM -- ABSOLUTE MONARCHIES & DICTATORSHIPS -- RISE OF THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT -- JIHADIST ORGANIZATIONS -- RISE OF AN ISLAMIST IRAN SEEKING TO BECOME A NUCLEAR POWER -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF MODERN EGYPT

THE CRISIS IN EGYPT, THE ISLAMISTS, & AMERICAN INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST: WHAT WILL BE THE CONSEQUENCE FOR THE U.S.A., IF THE UPRISING IN EGYPT IS TAKEN OVER BY THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD & OTHER ISLAMIST GROUPS?  THE GREATEST GEOPOLITICAL CONCERN AT THIS POINT:  THE FATE OF THE SUEZ CANAL -- THE LARGE VOLUME OF CRUDE OIL THAT TRANSITS THE CANAL, COUPLED WITH AMERICA'S HEAVY DEPENDENCE ON MIDDLE EAST OIL -- THE ULTIMATE PROBLEM:  A U.S. PRESIDENT WHO IS INTELLECTUALLY, EMOTIONALLY, PHILOSOPHICALLY, & IN ALL OTHER WAYS, NOT UP TO THE TASK OF DEALING EFFECTIVELY WITH U.S. FOREIGN POLICY & NATIONAL SECURITY MATTERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST OR ANYWHERE ELSE

SUPERSTITION, CONSPIRACY THEORY, & THE ISLAMIC MINDSET:  CONSPIRACY THEORIES BASED ON SUPERSTITION & EMANATING FROM THE MUSLIM WORLD REVEAL PATHOLOGICAL TRENDS THAT NEED TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED, ESPECIALLY BY WESTERN LEADERS WHO STUBBORNLY INTERACT WITH THE ISLAMIC WORLD UNDER THE ASSUMPTION THAT ALL MUSLIMS "THINK JUST LIKE US." CONSPIRACY THEORIES DISSEMINATED BY THE MUSLIM MEDIA, INCLUDING THOSE DEALING WITH "SUBVERSIVE ANIMALS," "WITCHCRAFT" & "THE CASTING OF SPELLS," REFLECT THE MUSLIM MINDSET, WHICH DETERMINES HOW MUSLIMS TYPICALLY INTERPRET & REACT TO SITUATIONS.

THE ISLAMIC HOLOCAUST AGAINST CHRISTIANS:  A NEW HOLOCAUST ABROAD IN THE WORLD, DIRECTED AT CHRISTIANS, PARTICULARLY IN THE MIDDLE EAST & THROUGHOUT AFRICA, WHEREVER ISLAM IS THE DOMINANT RELIGION -- THE PERSECUTION THAT HAS SPREAD EVERYWHERE BEFORE & SINCE THE RISE OF THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION, SPARKED BY EVENTS IN IRAN IN 1979 -- THE PERSECUTION HISTORICALLY DIRECTED AGAINST JUDAISM NOW COMMONPLACE IN ITS MORE LETHAL MANIFESTATIONS AGAINST CHRISTIANS -- AMERICANS, EUROPEANS, & CHRISTIANS WORLDWIDE LOCKED IN A RELIGIOUS WAR WITH ISLAM -- A WAR AGAINST ISLAM BECAUSE ISLAM HAS BEEN AT WAR WITH ALL OTHER FAITHS SINCE ITS INCEPTION -- A WAR THAT CHRISTIANITY MUST ENGAGE -- THE PACIFISM OR SILENCE OF CHURCH LEADERS NO LONGER AN OPTION

THE REPEATED FAILURE OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT DURING THE PAST DECADE TO GUAGE THE EXTENT OF ANTI-PEACE SENTIMENTS AMONG PALESTINIANS:  THE DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES OF WASHINGTON'S FAILURE TO ASCERTAIN THE PALESTINIANS' LACK OF INTEREST IN ENDING THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- U.S. PRESIDENT OBAMA'S RECENT AMBITIOUS PUSH TO BRING ABOUT AN END TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT & PERHAPS EVEN HELP THE PALESTINIAN ARABS TO DECLARE & ESTABLISH A SOVEREIGN PALESTINIAN STATE IN GAZA & THE WEST BANK -- COULD THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION BE RUSHING HEADLONG INTO YET ANOTHER DIPLOMATIC FAILURE?

THE OVERTHROW OF ZINE EL ABIDINE BEN ALI & THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN TUNISIA: CONVERGENCE OF NEW FORCES IN TUNISIA, CREATING AN INFITADA & QUICKLY OUSTING AN ENTRENCHED DICTATOR -- THE ISLAMIST IMPLICATIONS OF THIS UPHEAVAL -- DOES INTERIM TUNISIAN PRESIDENT FOUAD MEBAZZA, AGE 77, HAVE THE SAVVY OR POLITICAL CREDIBILITY TO MAINTAIN POWER? WILL THE MILITARY KEEP THE OLD GUARD IN POWER? DO MODERATE FORCES HAVE THE COHESION & VISION TO DEFLECT AN ISLAMIST SURGE? HOW WOULD AN ISLAMIST TAKEOVER IN TUNISIA IMPACT ON EUROPE & THE ISLAMIC WORLD? WHAT SHOULD THE U.S.A. DO IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE EMERGENCE OF AN ISLAMIST TUNISIA?

THE DOMESTIC & INTERNATIONAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE EVOLVING ISLAMIST THREAT TO AMERICA:  THE INTERNAL THREAT:  RADICALIZATION OF AMERICAN MUSLIMS, CREATING A VERY POTENT ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN INSIDE THE BORDERS OF THE U.S.A., ONE THAT POSES A SERIOUS & GROWING THREAT TO U.S. INTERNAL SECURITY -- A PROBLEM ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT:  COUNTERING ISLAMIST JIHADISM BY ENDEAVORING TO SPREAD WESTERN VALUES & WAYS OF GOVERNANCE IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD DOOMED TO FAILURE -- NEEDED:  AMERICA RETHINKING ITS STRATEGY FOR THE WAR ON ISLAMIST TERRORISM, BOTH AT HOME & ABROAD

UNITED STATES FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  U.S. POLICY TOWARD THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- IS AMERICA'S BOND WITH ISRAEL ABSOLUTE, UNSHAKEABLE, & ROCK SOLID?   U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S REPEATED AFFIRMATIONS, AS REGARDS THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION -- ISRAELI PUBLIC OPINION ON THE SUBJECT -- THE OPINION OF PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS -- RICH OPPORTUNITIES PERCEIVED BY ABBAS & THE PALESTINIAN STRATEGY BASED ON THOSE PERCEPTIONS -- JEWISH SETTLEMENTS IN EAST JERUSALEM & THE ISSUE OF LEGITIMACY -- THE CURRENT POSITION OF ABBAS ON BILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT & THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY -- OBAMA, THE U.S. CONGRESS, & UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS

IMPLICATIONS OF THE WIKILEAKS REVELATIONS REGARDING THE MIDDLE EAST, & THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR UNITED STATES FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE REGION:  EXPOSURE OF AN "ARAB COLD WAR" PARADIGM CRUCIAL TO UNDERSTANDING THE MIDDLE EAST -- CONCERNS OF U.S. ALLIES OVER IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM PROOF OF A MIDDLE EASTERN SITUATION FAR MORE COMPLEX THAN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- WHAT THE WIKILEAKS REVELATIONS INDICATE, AS REGARDS U.S. FOREIGN POLICYMAKERS' PERCEPTION & UNDERSTANDING OF TURKEY

MEDIA DISTORTION ABOUT ISRAEL:  THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA MISLEADS, EVEN AS IT INFORMS ON THE SUBJECT OF ISRAEL. *** THE ARAB WORLD & INNOVATION IN TERRORISM:  THE AREA WHERE ARABS SEEM MOST ADEPT AT INNOVATION IS TERRORISM. AIRPLANE HIJACKINGS, SUICIDE BOMBINGS, & MEGA-TERRORISM ARE AMONG THEIR CLAIMS TO ORIGINALITY.

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA & THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- INACTION OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IN THE FACE OF THE PALESTINIAN LEADERS' REFUSAL TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT -- PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS BLOCKING THE SOLE PATH TOWARD A SOLUTION OF THE ISSUE REGARDING ISRAELI CONSTRUCTION OF JEWISH HOMES IN JEWISH NEIGHBORHOODS OUTSIDE THE PRE-1967 LINE IN EAST JERUSALEM -- PALESTINIAN ABANDONMENT OF THE OSLO PEACE PROCESS -- REVERSION TO THE PRE-OSLO STRATEGY OF THE PALESTINIANS REJECTING CONTACT WITH ISRAEL & DEMANDING, INSTEAD, THAT THE GREAT POWERS IMPOSE ARAB TERMS ON THE JEWISH STATE -- ABBAS SETTING PRECONDITIONS FOR RESUMPTION OF ISRAELI-PALESTIAN NEGOTIATIONS -- RETICENCE OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO CONFRONT PALESTINIAN INTRANSIGENCE, REFLECTING SYMPATHY FOR THE ARABS & HOSTILITY TOWARD THE ISRAELIS

HOW THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT DESTROYED A STABILIZING ANTI-ISLAMIST FORCE IN IRAQ & THEREBY SERIOUSLY JEPORDIZED IRAQI NATIONAL SECURITY:  THE DISBANDING OF THE PREDOMINANTLY SUNNI POPULAR SOCIAL MOVEMENT, THE "SONS OF IRAQ," WHICH HAD BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN TURNING THE TIDE AGAINST AL-QA'IDA IN IRAQ DURING 2007-2008, & THE DECISION TO INCORPORATE SOI MEMBERS INTO MINISTRIES, RATHER THAN THE IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, HAS LEFT A DANGEROUS SECURITY VACUUM IN IRAQ.

JUAN COLE'S FLAWED ANALYSIS OF AMERICA'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISLAMIC WORLD:   BLAMING THE U.S.A. & THE FORMER BUSH PRESIDENCY FOR AMERICA'S PROBLEMS WITH THE MUSLIM WORLD -- COLE'S POOR JUDGEMENT, ANTI-AMERICAN BIASES, SUBTLE ANTI-SEMITIC JABS, & UTTER LACK OF INTEREST IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT -- ABSENCE OF SOUND ACADEMIC RESEARCH -- GROSS INACCURACIES & BLATANT PRO-ISLAMIST PROPAGANDA -- THE NEED TO HOLD AMERICAN ACADEMICS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR LACK OF SCHOLARSHIP, ABUSE OF POSITION, & PROSTITUTION OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROFESSION

THE STATE OF ISRAEL VERSUS AMERICAN, CANADIAN, & EUROPEAN ACADEMIA:   THE BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS MOVEMENT LED BY RADICAL LEFTISTS & ANTI-SEMITES ON THE FACULTIES OF NORTH AMERICAN & EUROPEAN UNIVERSITIES -- A MOVEMENT SEEKING TO PRESSURE AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES TO CUT OFF ALL TIES WITH ISRAELI INSTITUTIONS & ADVOCATING A FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY RELATING TO THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- SEEKING AN ANTI-ISRAEL & PRO-PALESTINIAN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY -- PROMOTING A POLITICALLY ACTIVE ROLE FOR UNIVERSITY FACULTY MEMBERS & STUDENTS IN ACHIEVING THESE GOALS

THE MIDDLE EAST, THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT, U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, & THE PRO-ARAB LOBBY IN THE U.S.A.:   U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY SUBJECT TO INFLUENCES BY PERSONS & GROUPS WHO BELIEVE THAT AMERICA'S NATIONAL INTEREST IS BEST SERVED BY DISTANCING THE U.S.A. FROM ISRAEL & CULTIVATING TIES WITH THE ARAB STATES -- PERSONS & GROUPS AGITATING BEHIND THE SCENES IN AMERICA FOR THE ADOPTION & IMPLEMENTATION OF U.S. GOVERNMENT FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS THAT ARE FAVORABLE TO THE ARABS & HOSTILE TOWARD ISRAEL -- COMPONENTS, UNDERLYING MOTIVES, & DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PRO-ARAB LOBBY -- THE SAUDI FACTOR AS THE MOST POTENT ELEMENT -- ARABISTS IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE & THEIR VIEWS & ACTIVITIES -- THE ROLE OF THE PETROLEUM INDUSTRY -- THE ROLE OF THE U.S. DEFENSE INDUSTRY -- THE VERY LIMITED ROLE OF ARAB-AMERICANS, ANTI-ZIONIST CHRISTIANS, & U.S. MUSLIM RESIDENTS

EUROPEAN INFLUENCE ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:   EUROPE & THE EUROPEANS AS THE STRONGEST EXTERNAL FORCE PRESSURING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO DISTANCE ITSELF FROM THE STATE OF ISRAEL & MOVE CLOSER TO THE ARABS -- THE BRITISH, FRENCH, & GERMANS AS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ARAB LOBBY TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT:  WHAT PEOPLE COMPRISE THE PALESTINIAN NATION?  WHAT TERRITORY SHOULD BE INCLUDED WITHIN THE BORDERS OF A FUTURE SOVEREIGN STATE OF PALESTINE?  WHAT ARE THE ENGINES OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT?  WHAT RIGHTS HAVE BEEN DENIED TO THE PALESTINIANS?  HOW & BY WHOM? -- THE BIASED & DISTORTED ANALYSIS OF UCB PROFESSOR BESHARA DOUMANI IN HIS LECTURE AT STANFORD UNIVERSITY ON SEPTERBER 29, 2010 -- A REFLECTION OF THE "ALL OR NOTHING" MENTALITY SEEN IN LEADERS OF & SPOKESMEN FOR THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & THE "HOUSE OF ISLAM":  THE RESOUNDING FAILURE OF U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S POLICIES TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST & THE MUSLIM WORLD -- OBAMA'S MISREADING OF THE HISTORY & WORLDVIEW OF ISLAM -- THE FAILURE OF OBAMA'S PANDERING TO ISLAMIC PREJUDICES (INCLUDING HIS GREATLY HYPED "OUTREACH" PLAN) TO GAIN FOR HIM & HIS PRESIDENCY THE QUIESCENCE, LET ALONE THE RESPECT & ADMIRATION, OF ARAB & MUSLIM SOCIETIES -- OBAMA'S ILL-CONCEIVED POLICIES OF "ENGAGEMENT" WITH IRAN & TURKEY & THE ABJECT FAILURE OF THOSE POLICIES -- THE PRESIDENT'S FLAWED POLICY TOWARD ISRAEL & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- HIS APPROACH TO U.S. MILITARY ACTION IN AFGHANISTAN & IRAQ -- THE NEED FOR OBAMA TO RECOGNIZE THE MANICHEAN & IRRECONCILABLE NATURE OF THE CHALLENGE POSED BY OUR ISLAMIC ADVERSARIES -- THE NEED TO REPLACE APPEASEMENT WITH CONTAINMENT & COUNTERATTACK

JIHAD AL-TALAB:  THE ISLAMIC IMPERATIVE TO WAGE WAR AGAINST & MILITARILY SUBJUGATE THE NON-MUSLIM WORLD -- MUSLIMS NAIVELY OPERATING ON THE ERRONEOUS ASSUMPTION THAT THE NON-MUSLIM WORLD DOES NOT READ, MONITOR, OR PAY ATTENTION TO ISLAMIST CALLS FOR MASS MURDER, AGGRESSION, CONQUEST, & TYRANNY -- THE NEED FOR MUSLIMS, WHILE IN THEIR PRESENT STATE OF MILITARY WEAKNESS, TO EXERCISE RESTRAINT, SUPPRESS THEIR OPEN & PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF OFFENSIVE JIHAD, & THEREBY AVOID CONSTANTLY REMINDING THE INFIDEL WORLD OF MILITANT ISLAM'S LONGTERM STRATEGIC GOAL OF GLOBAL CONQUEST & IMPOSITION OF SHARI'A LAW ON THE ENTIRE WORLD

AMERICA'S TWO MAJOR POLITICAL PARTIES, U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD ISRAEL, & THE U.S. CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS OF NOVEMBER 2, 2010:  THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY VERSUS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ON AMERICAN SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL & ITS GOVERNMENT -- THE PATTERN OF WEAK DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT & SIGNIFICANTLY STRONGER REPUBLICAN SUPPORT FOR THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- HOW AMERICAN VOTERS CONCERNED WITH ISRAEL'S WELFARE & SECURITY SHOULD VOTE IN THE IMPENDING CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS

A GLIMPSE OF WARFARE IN THE INTERNET AGE:  RECIPROCAL DEATH SENTENCES RAGING BETWEEN YEMEN & THE U.S.A. -- THE BOUNDARIES OF WARFARE ARE BEING STRETCHED IN NOVEL, STRANGE, & FRIGHTENING WAYS.

EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE OUTBREAK OF THE IRAQ WAR IN 2003:  THE ABSURD THESIS OF JUAN COLE REGARDING BUSH ADMINISTRATION DECISION-MAKING BETWEEN THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACKS ON THE U.S.A. & THE U.S. MILITARY INVASION OF IRAQ ON MARCH 20, 2003 -- EVIDENCE INDICATING THAT THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE SINCERELY BELIEVED THAT SADDAM HUSSEIN'S BAATHIST REGIME HAD WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION & THEREFORE POSED A POTENTIAL THREAT TO THE STABILITY OF THE MIDDLE EAST REGION -- COLE'S BASELESS CONTENTION THAT THE DRIVE TOWARD WAR WITH IRAQ WAS MAINLY THE WORK OF U.S. OFFICIALS WHO WERE PART OF THE ISRAEL LOBBY IN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION -- THE LESSONS THAT WESTERN GOVERNMENTS & INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES SHOULD DRAW FROM MORE RECENTLY EMERGING EVIDENCE RELATING TO GOVERNMENTAL DECISION-MAKING IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE IRAQ WAR

THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF TURKEY:  WHERE TURKEY IS HEADING UNDER THE RULE OF ERDOGAN & THE AKP -- GENUINE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, OR AUTHORITARIAN DICTATORSHIP -- GUARANTEE OF THE BASIC LIBERTIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN, OR UNLIMITED RULE BY A TYRANNICAL ISLAMIST MAJORITY, WITH NO PROTECTION OF MINORITY RIGHTS -- MEMBERSHIP IN THE EUROPEAN UNION & ALLIANCE WITH THE WEST, OR A STRENGTHENING OF TURKEY'S TIES WITH IRAN, SYRIA, & OTHER ENEMIES OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST

A FAILED U.S. POLICY IN IRAQ: THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S SPENDING OF $53 BILLION IN AMERICAN TAXPAYER MONEY ON RECONSTRUCTION EFFORTS IN IRAQ -- THE IRAQI ECONOMY & THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF IRAQ'S GROWING RELIANCE ON OIL FOR INCOME -- INABILITY OF THE PRESENT IRAQI GOVERNMENT TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS IN ALLEVIATING IRAQ'S PROBLEM OF LONGTERM UNEMPLOYMENT -- THE MASSIVE CORRUPTION & INEFFICIENT BUREAUCRACY THAT HINDER EXECUTION OF ANY MAJOR RECONSTRUCTION PLANS -- LACK OF SKILLED WORKERS TO EFFECTIVELY MANAGE U.S.-FUNDED RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS -- THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF THE FOREIGN POLICY FAILURE & MONUMENTAL WASTE OF U.S. MONEY:  THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S PURSUIT OF THE FANTASY OF A FREE, STABLE, DEMOCRATIC, & ECONOMICALLY PROSPEROUS IRAQ

HAVE THE LESSONS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, BEEN LEARNED, OR ARE THEY FADING AS THE 9/11 ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACKS ON THE U.S.A. BECOME A MEMORY?  WHAT DO EVENTS & DEVELOPMENTS OF THE PAST NINE YEARS INDICATE?  ARE WE PROGRESSING OR REGRESSING IN DEFENDING OURSELVES IN THE GLOBAL JIHAD THAT MILITANT ISLAM IS WAGING AGAINST THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION?  WILL THE FULL IMPLICATIONS OF THE CONFLICT BE DRAWN QUICKLY ENOUGH TO ENABLE US TO ACHIEVE VICTORY IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR?

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA & U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY:  OBAMA EQUIVOCATES, AS REGARDS THE THREAT ISLAMISTS POSE TO AMERICA'S NATIONAL SECURITY.  THE PRESIDENT MISUNDERSTANDS THE RELIGION OF ISLAM & ITS INTRINSIC WARLIKE & IMPERIALISTIC TENDENCIES.  HE REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE THE JIHADIST IDEOLOGY THAT DRIVES ISLAMIST TERRORISM. THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S COURTING OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD HAS FAILED ON ALL KEY COUNTS BECAUSE ISLAMISTS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN ACHIEVING PEACE BY ANY MEANS OTHER THAN ISLAMIC CONQUEST & SUBJUGATION OF ALL NON-MUSLIM SOCIETIES.

THE ROLE OF MARTYRDOM IN CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC WARFARE:  MARTYRDOM'S CENTRAL POSITION IN VIOLENT CAMPAIGNS CONDUCTED BY ISLAMIC GROUPS -- THE SUICIDE BOMBER AS THE IDEAL OF ISLAMIC MARTYRDOM -- HOW THE CONCEPT OF ISLAMIC MARTYRDOM HAS UNDERGONE A TRANSFORMATION THAT BLENDS & SYNTHESIZES NOTIONS THAT WERE ONCE LIMITED TO ONE OR THE OTHER OF THE TWO MAIN MUSLIM SECTS, SUNNI & SHI'I

U.S. SECURITY INTERESTS & THE CONFLICT IN YEMEN:  THE SITUATION IN YEMEN FAR MORE WORRISOME & URGENT TO THE U.S.A. THAN THE UPCOMING ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE TALKS -- AN ALTERATION OF U.S. POLICY TOWARD YEMEN NEEDED -- IRANIAN INFLUENCE & THE THREAT OF AL-QA'IDA IN YEMEN -- WHAT THE U.S.A. SHOULD DO ABOUT THE YEMENI SITUATION

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, THE STATE OF ISRAEL, & THE FATE OF THE NEGROPONTE DOCTRINE:  U.S. POLICY TOWARD UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS CONDEMNING ISRAEL FOR MILITARY ACTION TAKEN IN ITS OWN DEFENSE AGAINST ARMED TERRORIST GROUPS ATTACKING ISRAELIS -- UNDER PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, DOES THE U.S.A. REMAIN COMMITTED TO THE NEGROPONTE PRINCIPLE OF NONSUPPORT FOR SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS AGAINST ISRAEL THAT IGNORE THE EXPLICIT THREAT TO MIDDLE EAST PEACE POSED BY HAMAS & OTHER SUCH TERRORIST GROUPS? WILL OBAMA VETO ANY ANTI-ISRAEL RESOLUTION WHICH DOES NOT CONTAIN AN EXPLICIT CONDEMNATION OF THE ORGANIZATIONS RESPONSIBLE FOR ACTS OF TERRORISM & CALL FOR DISMANTLING THE INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORTING TERROR OPERATIONS?

ARAB STATES & THE ABDULLAH PLAN:  THE ABDULLAH PLAN AS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT & EXPLICIT COLLECTIVE ARAB DECLARATION IN FAVOR OF A PEACEFUL, MUTUALLY AGREED-ON RESOLUTION OF THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT EVER MADE -- MODIFICATION OF THE COLLECTIVE ARAB POSITION IN THE DIRECTION OF A MORE EXPLICIT RECOGNITION OF ISRAEL -- A MOVE TOWARD ARAB ACCEPTANCE OF THE REALITY OF A JEWISH STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- EVENTS & FORCES THAT HAVE MITIGATED THE VALUE & IMPORTANCE OF THE ARAB STATES' PEACE INITIATIVE -- THE ABDULLAH PLAN AS A GENUINE REFERENCE POINT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY REGARDING ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE-MAKING -- THE PLAN AS A MARKER DETERMINING THE SHAKY PARAMETERS OF ACCEPTABLE, COLLECTIVE ARAB ACTION ON A FINAL & PERMANENT ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE SETTLEMENT

THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP AS THE OBSTACLE TO PEACE BETWEEN ISRAEL & THE PALESTINIANS:  THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP'S DOGMATIC REJECTION OF THE RIGHT OF ISRAEL TO EXIST -- THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP'S UNYIELDING COMMITMENT TO THE EVENTUAL DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- PALESTINIAN LEADERS' PERCEPTION OF THE PROPOSED TWO-STATE SOLUTION AS A TRANSIENT ARRANGEMENT REQUIRED BY THE NEEDS OF THE MOMENT THAT WOULD INEXORABLY LEAD TO THE LONG-CHERISHED GOAL OF ISRAEL'S DEMISE -- INSISTENCE ON THE "RIGHT OF RETURN" AS A NONNEGOTIABLE PREREQUISITE FOR ANY PEACE SETTLEMENT -- DETERMINATION TO CONTINUE THE "ARMED STRUGGLE" FOR THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE

WHAT BODES FOR IRAQ'S FUTURE, IN TERMS OF ITS RELATIONS TO THE OTHER STATES IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  THE MIDDLE EASTERN COLD WAR -- THE CURRENT IDEOLOGICAL DIVISION IN THE MIDDLE EAST BETWEEN THE "REVOLUTIONARY BLOC" & THE "STATUS-QUO BLOC" -- SAUDI ARABIA & IRAN JOSTLING FOR INFLUENCE IN IRAQ -- THE POSSIBILITY OF IRAQ SOON EMERGING AS A THEATER OF PROXY WARFARE BETWEEN SAUDI ARABIA & IRAN

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA & U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY:  OBAMA'S AUDACITY OF HOPE, AS REGARDS THE OUTCOME OF DIRECT TALKS BETWEEN ISRAELIS & PALESTINIANS -- THE ZONE OF THE ATTAINABLE FOR OBAMA -- CAN OBAMA SCALE BACK HIS OBJECTIVES TO MORE LIMITED STEPS THAT CAN BE ACHIEVED, BUT FALL SHORT OF ENDING THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT FOREVER & TRANSFORMING THE MIDDLE EASTERN REGION?  ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU & THE FEASIBILITY OF PALESTINIAN SOVEREIGN STATEHOOD -- THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY & INTERIM ARRANGEMENTS FOR PEACE -- OBAMA & THE ROADMAP TO PEACE

THE NATION-STATE, MULTINATIONAL STATES, & SHIFTING PARADIGMS:  GROWING SUPPORT FOR MULTINATIONALISM & INTERNATIONALISM AMONG WESTERN ELITES & THEIR DECLINING PERCEPTION OF THE SOVEREIGN NATION-STATE AS A LEGITIMATE & POSITIVE INSTRUMENT FOR PROTECTING PEOPLE & ALLOWING THEM TO FLOURISH -- WHY THE AMERICAN NATION-STATE, WHICH HAS DONE SO MUCH FOR HUMAN FREEDOM & WELFARE, INSPIRES HOSTILITY ON THE PART OF WESTERN ELITES -- ISRAEL AS A SOVEREIGN JEWISH NATION-STATE & ITS DELEGITIMIZATION IN THE WEST -- THE STATE OF ISRAEL & SHIFTING PARADIGMS

ARAB COMPASSION FOR THE PALESTINIANS?  HOW GREAT?  TAKING A CAREFUL LOOK AT REALITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  ARAB STATES, ARAB POLITICS, & THE LONG HISTORY ARAB ABUSE OF BOTH THE "PALESTINE QUESTION" & THE PALESTINIANS THEMSELVES -- ARAB RULERS, CONFLICTING IMPERIALIST AMBITIONS, & THE NATIONAL RIGHTS OF PALESTINIANS -- THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL CAUSE MANIPULATED BY ARAB LEADERS TO THEIR OWN ENDS -- PAN-ARABISM & ITS VIEW OF PALESTINE & THE PALESTINIANS -- ANTI-ZIONISM AS AN INSTRUMENT FOR ACHIEVING THE SELF-INTERESTED AIMS OF ARAB STATES -- A PARADOX:   HOW THE STATE OF ISRAEL HAS SAVED THE PALESTINIAN NATIONAL MOVEMENT FROM COMPLETE OBLIVION

IS RESOLUTION OF THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT A PREREQUISITE TO PEACE & STABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  HOW GREAT AN INTEREST DO ARABS & ARAB STATES HAVE IN THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI PEACE TALKS?   WHAT ARAB POLICIES SINCE THE MID-1930S SUGGEST -- ARAB STATES & THE DEGREE OF THEIR CONCERN FOR THE WELL-BEING OF PALESTINIANS -- ARAB REGIMES & THEIR INTEREST IN FIGHTING FOR PALESTINIAN NATIONAL RIGHTS -- THE HISTORY OF ARAB LEADERS MANIPULATING THE PALESTINIAN CAUSE FOR THEIR OWN ENDS, WHILE IGNORING THE FATE OF THE PALESTINIANS -- IN WHAT DOES THE ONLY HOPE OF PEACE BETWEEN ARABS & ISRAELIS LIE?  WHAT THE PALESTINIANS NEED TO UNDERSTAND -- WHAT THEY MUST DO?

A QUESTION PROMPTED BY THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT'S RAGE OVER WHAT IT CALLS ISRAEL'S "OPEN-AIR JAIL" IN GAZA:  IS ISRAEL IN GAZA REALLY WORSE THAN TURKEY IN CYPRUS?  COMPARISON & CONTRAST TO DETERMINE THE TRUTH -- INSTEAD OF MEDDLING IN GAZA, SHOULD NOT TURKISH LEADERS END TURKEY'S ILLEGAL, DISRUPTIVE, DECADES-LONG MILITARY OCCUPATION OF NORTHERN CYPRUS?

THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  ITS ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENT, & CURRENT STATUS -- THE VERY DIM PROSPECTS FOR RESOLUTION OF THE CONFLICT, EXCEPT BY APPLICATION OF OVERWHELMING FORCE & VIOLENCE & ACHIEVEMENT OF A TOTAL MILITARY VICTORY BY ONE SIDE OVER THE OTHER -- FAILURE TO ADOPT & IMPLEMENT THE TWO-STATE SOLUTION TO THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM, DUE TO VIOLENT OPPOSITION ON THE PART OF THE PALESTINIAN ARABS & THEIR SUPPORTERS THROUGHOUT THE ARAB WORLD -- PALESTINIAN ARAB TERRORISM -- THE STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE OF THE PALESTINIAN ARABS' LEADERSHIP -- DESTRUCTION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL & ANNIHILATION OF THE ISRAELI POPULATION

NASA'S NEW MISSION & PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S COMMITMENT TO CATERING TO ISLAM:  NASA'S MISSION TO FIND A WAY TO REACH OUT TO THE ISLAMIC WORLD & ENGAGE MUCH MORE WITH PREDOMINANTLY MUSLIM NATIONS TO HELP THEM FEEL GOOD ABOUT THEIR HISTORIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, & ENGINEERING -- OBAMA'S LIES PORTRAYING ISLAM AS A PEACEFUL RELIGION & ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL MANNER OF SCIENTIFIC BREAKTHROUGHS -- SIGNALS OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S SUBMISSION TO ISLAM

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S NEW MISSION FOR THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS & SPACE ADMINISTRATION:   REACH OUT TO THE MUSLIM WORLD -- ENGAGE MUCH MORE WITH ISLAMIC COUNTRIES TO HELP THEM FEEL GOOD ABOUT THEIR HISTORIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO SCIENCE, MATHEMATICS, & ENGINEERING -- WINNING MUSLIM FAVOR:  AN IMPULSE NOW DEEPLY IMBEDDED IN THE POLICIES OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION -- WHAT THE POLLS INDICATE:  OBAMA'S EFFORT TO WIN MUSLIM PUBLIC OPINION HAS BEEN A FAILURE.

THE PATTERN OF PALESTINIAN DUPLICITY & DOUBLE-SPEAK UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF YASIR ARAFAT:  DID ARAFAT'S SUCCESSOR, MAHMOUD ABBAS, BREAK FROM THIS PATTERN, OR DID HE CONTINUE IT?  WHAT DOES THE EVIDENCE INDICATE?  WHEN WILL WE IN THE WEST STOP DELUDING OURSELVES THAT MAHMOUD ABBAS & THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY SEEK ANYTHING LESS THAN THE TOTAL ELIMINATION OF THE JEWISH STATE OF ISRAEL?  WHAT DISASTER MUST OCCUR BEFORE WE OPEN OUR EYES TO REALITY?

THE NEW ARAB LIBERALS:  THE ORIGINS, NATURE, & FUTURE OF THE MOVEMENT -- THE ISSUE OF CULTURAL CHANGE & LIBERAL POLITICAL REFORM IN THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST -- HOW ARAB POLITICS & POLITICAL CULTURE PRESENT OBSTACLES TO THE RISE OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE ARAB WORLD -- ISLAMISM & PAN-ARAB NATIONALISM AS OBSTACLES TO DEVELOPMENT OF DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONALISM, STABLE REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACIES, SECULAR STATES, OPEN SOCIETIES, & LEGAL GUARANTEES OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS & LIBERTIES TO INDIVIDUAL CITIZENS -- WHY CHANGE IN THE COMPOSITION OF ARAB POLITICAL ELITES IS ESSENTIAL -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION & PROGRESS TOWARD DEMOCRATIZATION

THE MOST URGENT TOPIC IN THE MIDDLE EAST THESE DAYS:  WHETHER OR NOT IRAN'S NUCLEAR BUILDUP WILL BE STOPPED -- THE ISSUE:  WHICH IS MORE IMPORTANT, (1) PREVENTING IRAN FROM DEVELOPING NUCLEAR WEAPONS, EVEN IF IT MEANS TAKING MILITARY ACTION, OR (2) AVOIDING A MILITARY CONFLICT, EVEN IF THE IRANIANS MAY DEVELOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS?

CALIFORNIA'S ANTI-ISRAEL ACADEMICS:  ANTI-ZIONIST & ANTI-SEMITIC CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS TARGETING THE STATE OF ISRAEL FOR AN ACADEMIC & CULTURAL BOYCOTT -- CALIFORNIA ACADEMICS & THE BDS (BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, & SANCTIONS) MOVEMENT -- RANK ANTI-SEMITISM ON THE POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT -- THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT MADE CALIFORNIA'S STATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER "EDUCATION" RIPE FOR THE MALADIES OF RADICAL POLITICS & LEFTWING ANTI-SEMITISM

A TROUBLED ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE -- BIASED & DISTORTED ANALYSIS OF MAJOR NEWS EVENTS BY UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES:  LEADING MIDDLE EAST "SCHOLARS" PUT ON THEIR IDEOLOGICAL BLINDERS & DENOUNCED THE STATE OF ISRAEL FOR ITS ACTION IN THE GAZA FLOTILLA INCIDENT.  THE PROFESSORS IGNORED OVERWHELMING VIDEO & DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE OF THE MERCENARIES' RADICAL AGENDA & AFFINITY FOR VIOLENCE.  THE PROFESSORS' SHOWED NO INTEREST IN THE BLOCKADE-RUNNERS TERRORIST CONNECTIONS.  BASIC BACKGROUND INFORMATION WAS MISSING FROM THE ACADEMICS' ANALYSES.  UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIMS MADE BY THE PROFESSORS WERE NOT CHALLENGED BY THE MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS THAT INVITED THE PROFESSORS TO SPEAK.

WILL THE ARMED MIGHT OF THE U.S.A., ALREADY PRESENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST IN AFGHANISTAN, IN IRAQ & IN THE PERSIAN GULF, BE USED TO THWART AN ISLAMIC DRIVE TO DESTROY THE POPULATION, CULTURE, & INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL? THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION WAITS UPON THE DECISION OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.

TURKEY'S REACTION TO THE GAZA FLOTILLA INCIDENT:  COULD IT BE THAT THERE IS SOMETHING MORE TO TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN'S RAGE AGAINST ISRAEL THAN JUST A SPONTANEOUS REACTION TO THE LOSS OF NINE TURKISH LIVES IN THE INCIDENT?  TURKEY'S 2011 ELECTIONS AS HOLDING THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION OF WHY ERDOGAN DECIDED TO PLAY THE ISRAEL CARD -- WHY TURKEY IS FERTILE GROUND FOR ERDOGAN'S ANTI-ISRAEL & ANTI-SEMITIC DEMAGOGUERY -- ANTI-AMERICANISM IN TURKEY & THE REASONS FOR ITS EXISTENCE -- ANTI-ZIONISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, & ANTI-AMERICANISM AS MUTUALLY REINFORCING & CONVERGING POLITICAL FORCES IN TURKEY

TURKISH POLICY & THE FUTURE OF ISLAMISM:  THE ISLAMISTS' RISE TO POWER IN TURKEY -- PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN'S ISLAMIST OUTLOOK -- INCREASED AUTHORITARIANISM IN TURKEY -- TURKEY'S MORE BELLIGERENT APPROACH TO FOREIGN POLICY & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- TURKEY & THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR BUILDUP -- TURKEY & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT'S TIES TO AL-QA'IDA -- ISLAMISM 2.0 & ISLAMISM 1.0 IN TURKEY -- TURKEY, THE U.S.A., & NATO -- TURKEY'S OPPOSITION POLITICAL PARTIES

WHAT AMERICAN SOCIETY NEEDS TO DO IN ORDER TO TO PROPERLY RESPOND TO THE GROWING THREAT OF MILITANT ISLAM:  GAIN A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF ISLAM; UNDERSTAND ISLAM, PARTICULARLY ITS LAWS & DOCTRINES, THE SAME WAY MUSLIMS UNDERSTAND IT, WITHOUT GIVING IT UNDUE WESTERN INTERPRETATIONS;   UNDERSTAND THAT ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY HAS THE INTRINSIC CAPACITY TO PROMPT MUSLIMS TO VIOLENCE AGAINST NON-MUSLIMS, IRRESPECTIVE OF THE EXISTENCE OR NON-EXISTENCE OF POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, & SOCIAL GRIEVANCES -- FAILURE OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO AVOID THE MISGUIDED PHENOMENON OF WESTERNING ISLAMIC CONCEPTS -- THE ADMINISTRATION'S FAILURE TO TRULY UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF THE ISLAMIST ENEMY & ITS ULTIMATE GOAL, ESTABLISHMENT OF A HEGEMONIC CALIPHATE THAT GOVERNS THE ENTIRE WORLD ACCORDING TO ISLAMIC LAW

CAN BARACK OBAMA'S JEWISH, ZIONIST, & OTHER PRO-ISRAELI SUPPORTERS IN THE U.S.A. ACT IN A WAY THAT WILL CHANGE THE DIRECTION OF CURRENT U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY EMINATING FROM THE WHITE HOUSE?  WILL AMERICANS OF PRO-ISRAELI PERSUASION ACCEPT PRESIDENT OBAMA'S VIEW THAT THE STATE OF ISRAEL BEARS SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE LOSS OF AMERICAN "BLOOD & TREASURE" IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  WILL THEY CONTINUE TO EXTEND THEIR SUPPORT TO THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY?

DEFENDING THE U.S.A. AGAINST OUR ISLAMIST ENEMIES, WHO HAVE TAKEN EVERY POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY TO MURDER AMERICAN CITIZENS & UNDERMINE OUR FREEDOM, PEACE, & SECURITY:  AMERICA MUST STRIKE AT THE NETWORK OF JIHADI TERROR GROUPS OPERATING IN PAKISTAN & FUNDED BY OSAMA BIN LADEN & RICH OIL SHEIKS.   AMERICANS CAN EITHER REMAIN PASSIVE, INDOLENT, & APATHETIC IN THE FACE OF JIHADI TERRORISM, OR REACT STRONGLY AGAINST THE APPEASEMENT POLICIES OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION.

THE KEY ISSUE OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ISRAELI JEWS & THE PALESTINIAN ARABS:  SHOULD THERE BE A JEWISH STATE IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  SHOULD ISRAEL BE ACCEPTED AS A SOVEREIGN JEWISH STATE?  THE FAILURE OF ISRAELI-ARAB DIPLOMACY TO DEAL WITH THE CENTRAL ISSUE OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- TO WHAT MUST PEACEMAKERS DIRECT THEIR ATTENTION IN ENDEAVORING TO RESOLVE THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT?

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY & THE ISLAMIC "REPUBLIC" OF IRAN:  ADVOCATING U.S. APPEASEMENT OF IRAN -- THE MYTH OF THE "STERLING PEACE OFFER" MADE BY THE IRANIAN REGIME TO THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT IN 2003 -- AMERICAN APPEASERS PROMOTING THE INTERESTS OF THE IRANIAN DICTATORSHIP & SEEKING TO UNDERMINE AMERICA'S STRATEGIC INTERESTS & POSITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH CENTRAL ASIA

THE JIHADIST THREAT TO THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES:  HIGH TIME TO RECOGNIZE ISLAM AS THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF AMERICA'S CURRENT FOREIGN POLICY & NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEMS -- THE NEED FOR AMERICA & THE WEST TO ABANDON "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS," FACE REALITY, RECOGNIZE JIHADISTS AS DEADLY ENEMIES OF ALL NON-MUSLIM PEOPLES & CULTURES, & FORM A UNITED FRONT AGAINST THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST TERROR MOVEMENT -- THE NEED FOR UNITED ACTION TO ENSURE THE SURVIVAL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION & THE TOTAL DEFEAT & DESTRUCTION OF THE JIHADIST ENEMY

WHAT DRIVES ISLAMIC TERRORIST ACTIVITY, INSANITY OR IDEOLOGICAL PASSION? ACCURATE ANALYSIS OF ACTS OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM MUST BEGIN WITH THE PRESUMPTION OF JIHADI INTENT ON THE PART OF THE PERPETRATORS, NOT MENTAL OR EMOTIONAL INCAPACITY AS THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF SUCH BEHAVIOR.  SPREADING ISLAM & APPLYING ISLAMIC LAW ARE THE GOALS OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM.  COURAGE TO NAME THE ENEMY IS ESSENTIAL TO THE WEST'S WINNING THE GLOBAL WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST IT BY THE INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIST MOVEMENT.

VICTORY:  THE ONE & ONLY SURE ROUTE TO PEACE.  PEACE IS ACHIEVED WHEN ONE SIDE IN A WAR IS VICTORIOUS OVER ITS ENEMIES.  WHAT THE HISTORICAL RECORD CONFIRMS:  PEACE COMES WHEN ONE SIDE CONCEDES DEFEAT & THE OTHER SIDE WINS THE WAR.  DANIEL PIPES' PEACE PLAN FOR THE MIDDLE EAST:  AN ISRAELI VICTORY OVER THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL.

IN ORDER TO SUCCESSFULLY DEFEND OURSELVES AGAINST & DESTROY THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT THAT IS WAGING A GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION & OTHER NON-MUSLIM CULTURES, WE MUST ELIMINATE THE ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY WHICH CREATES ISLAMIST JIHADI IN THE FIRST PLACE.  VICTORY OF AMERICA & THE WEST IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR REQUIRES ERADICATION OF THE IDEOLOGY OF ISLAMISM, THE ROOT CAUSE OF OUR DIFFICULTIES WITH THE ISLAMIC WORLD.

A BLATANTLY BIASED ACCOUNT OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT:  AN ACCOUNT THAT OBVIOUSLY REFLECTS THE AUTHOR'S SYMPATHY & SUPPORT FOR THE CAUSE OF THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION & HIS BITTER OPPOSITION TO EXISTENCE OF THE JEWISH STATE -- A BOOK THAT UNDERSCORES THE UNFAIR, DISHONEST, & DECEPTIVE MANNER IN WHICH THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT IS DEALT WITH IN MAINSTREAM ACADEME

DAYTON'S MEN:  CONSEQUENCES OF AMERICAN EFFORTS TO IMPROVE THE MILITARY FORCE OF THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY -- ENHANCING THE FIGHTING POWER OF ENEMIES OF THE U.S.A. & ISRAEL -- THE PALESTINIAN LEADERSHIP'S UNENDING DETERMINATION TO DESTROY ISRAEL & UNDERMINE U.S. INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE LIKELIHOOD THAT THE U.S.-TRAINED & EQUIPPED PALESTINIAN TROOPS WILL BE EMPLOYED TO HELP PALESTINIANS ACHIEVE THEIR GOALS OF ELIMINATING ISRAEL & UNDERMINING U.S. INTERESTS -- WHAT THE U.S. CONGRESS SHOULD DO ABOUT THIS DANGEROUS SITUATION

PRESIDENT OR SUPREME LEADER:  WHO WIELDS THE GREATER POWER IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN?   THE TENTH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AS A NEW PHASE IN IRAN'S INTENSE INTRA-ELITE DISPUTE -- AHMADINEJAD'S "GUARDIANSHIP OF THE PEOPLE" VERSUS KHAMENEI'S "GUARDIANSHIP OF THE CLERGY" -- THE LATTER AS THE DOCTRINAL PRINCIPAL ON WHICH THE CURRENT IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME RESTS -- THE SUPREME LEADER AS THE REAL DECISION-MAKER IN IRAN -- IMPLICATIONS FOR U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

A CLOSING WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY -- PRESIDENT OBAMA'S OPPORTUNITY TO SALVAGE HIS TOTTERING ADMINISTRATION, CHANGING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC'S PERCEPTION OF HIM AS A LIGHTWEIGHT, BUMBLING RADICAL FAR-LEFTIST IDEOLOGUE: HE CAN TAKE DRAMATIC & DECISIVE ACTION IN AN ARENA WHERE THE STAKES ARE HIGH, FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE VITAL AREA OF U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY. HE CAN ORDER THE U.S. MILITARY TO DESTROY IRAN'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS CAPACITY.

HOW THE IRAQI POLITICAL SYSTEM IS CURRENTLY OPERATING UNDER IRAQ'S CONSTITUTION:  IS U.S. CYNICISM ABOUT IRAQI CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY WARRANTED?  THE CURRENT CONDITION OF THE RULE OF LAW IN IRAQ -- WHY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE CAUTIOUS ABOUT INTERFERING IN IRAQI JUDICIAL MATTERS -- THE REVISED ELECTORAL SYSTEM & THE TREND TOWARD GREATER POLITICAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN IRAQ -- THE SHORTCOMINGS OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION'S FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD IRAQ & IRAQI POLITICS

U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, THE PERSIAN GULF STATES, & THE IRANIAN THREAT: U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST, THE PERSIAN GULF, & IRAN -- THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION OPERATING COUNTER TO AMERICAN INTERESTS IN THE REGION, UNDERMINING AMERICA'S ALLIANCES WITH GULF STATES -- U.S. SUPPORT FOR THE GULF SECURITY DIALOGUE & THE GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL VERSUS OBAMA'S SEEKING PRAGMATIC ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAN -- THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN AS THE GREATEST THREAT TO THE SECURITY OF GULF STATES ALLIED WITH THE U.S.A. -- OIL & CONTROL OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ

SYRIA AS A LONG-STANDING STATE SPONSOR OF ISLAMIC INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: THE ROLE OF THE SYRIAN GOVERNMENT IN ASSISTING & FACILITATING ISLAMIST TERRORIST ACTIVITY & THE INSURGENCY IN IRAQ -- SOPHISTICATED NETWORKS ESTABLISHED BY TERRORISTS & INSURGENTS TO FACILITATE THE MOVEMENT OF FOREIGN FIGHTERS FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF THE WORLD TO & THROUGH SYRIA, & INTO IRAQ -- ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES FOR SYRIA & IRAQ -- BENEFITS TO SYRIA -- NEGATIVES FOR SYRIA -- AL-QA'IDA IN IRAQ & THE ZARQAWI NRTWORK -- BENEFITS TO AL-QA'IDA IN IRAQ -- SHUTING DOWN THE NETWORKS & STARVING THE INSURGENCY OF ITS SUPPLY OF MATERIEL, FUNDS, & MANPOWER

THE WRITINGS OF T. E. LAWRENCE ON WESTERN MILITARY STRATEGY IN THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST & THE RELEVANCE OF THESE WRITINGS TO THE CURRENT U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE IN IRAQ:  THE INFLUENCE THAT LAWRENCE'S WRITINGS HAVE HAD ON THE REFORMS ADOPTED & IMPLEMENTED SINCE GENERAL DAVID HOWELL PETRAEUS WAS PLACED IN CHARGE OF U.S. & ALLIED MILITARY FORCES IN IRAQ -- HOW THE STRATEGIC THINKING OF A FAMOUS & LONG-DEAD WORLD WAR I BRITISH ARMY LIEUTENANT COLONEL IS INFLNCING THE CONTEMPORARY MILITARY OCCUPATION OF IRAQ

WHAT AL-QA'IDA & OTHER ISLAMIST ORGANIZATIONS MAKE PERFECTLY CLEAR IN ARABIC-LANGUAGE TREATISIES ON THE NATURE & PURPOSE OF THE GLOBAL JIHAD ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST NON-MUSLIMS:  THE WORDS, PHRASES, & MESSAGE THAT DO NOT APPEAR IN THE ENGLISH VERSIONS OF ISLAMIST PROPAGANDA -- THE SUBSERVIENT, EMASCULATED ROLE ENVISIONED BY ISLAMISTS FOR WESTERNERS & OTHER NON-MUSLEMS IN AN ISLAMIC-DOMINATED WORLD ORDER -- "INFIDELS" TO BE MADE SUBJECT TO ONLY TWO CHOICES OF FATE:   HOLOCAUST-STYLE DEATH, OR SUBMISSION TO ISLAMIC HEGEMONY

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD ISRAEL:  BENJAMIN NETANYAHU'S RECENT VISIT TO THE U.S.A. & OBAMA'S SNUB OF THE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER -- WHY OBAMA IS RELUCTANT TO MAINTAIN CLOSE RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL -- THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY & THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM -- THE IMPORTANCE OF RENEWING U.S.-ISRAELI STRATEGIC COOPERATION ON THE IRANIAN CRISIS

THE MIDDLE EAST'S REGRESSIVE ISLAMIC FANATICISM:  THE PHENOMENON THAT REMAINS A CEASELESS THREAT TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION

OBAMA APPOINTEE DALIA MOGAHED'S PARTICIPATION, ALONG WITH OTHER ISLAMISTS, ON AN EXTREMIST TELEVISION PROGRAM DISCUSSING PROMOTION OF SHARIA LAW AS A MEANS OF PROTECTING WOMEN'S RIGHTS, ELIMINATION OF SECULAR & PLURALISTIC CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, & THE REVIVAL OF A THEOCRATIC, TOTALITARIAN CALIPHATE AS THE SOLUTION TO THE ISLAMIC WORLD'S PROBLEMS

ISLAMIC TERRORISTS ARE ENEMIES OF THE HUMAN RACE.  WE ARE JUSTIFIED IN UNITING TOGETHER WITH WHATEVER MEANS ARE NECESSARY TO PUNISH & EVEN EXTERMINATE SUCH BRUTAL LUNATICS.

UNITED STATES POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  AN ATTEMPT OF A RADICAL ANTI-ZIONIST TO INFLUENCE AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN WAYS THAT COULD FURTHER HARM U.S. INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CREDIBILITY OF NORTON MEZVINSKY & THE PROPAGANDA HE WILL DISSEMINATE THROUGH THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR MIDDLE EAST STUDIES

THE CENTRAL PROBLEM OF NEAREAST ASIA & ARAB-RULED NORTH AFRICA:  ISLAM & ITS RESISTANCE TO CHANGE -- WHY THERE CAN BE NO REAL PEACE IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- WHY THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT WILL CONTINUE -- WHY EFFORTS OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO "RE-SET" U.S. RELATIONS WITH THE MIDDLE EAST WILL NOT SUCCEED -- A BROAD SPECTRUM OF ARAB FAILURE OR UNDERPERFORMANCE IN INVESTMENT, PRODUCTIVITY, TRADE, EDUCATION, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, & CULTURE -- AUTHORITARIAN & TYRANNICAL POLITICAL REGIMES IN MOST MUSLIM COUNTRIES -- ISLAM'S DREAMS OF A GLOBAL ISLAMIC CALIPHATE, A SINGLE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIC RELIGION, & THE BRUTAL JUSTICE OF SHARIA LAW

THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  WHY THERE WILL BE NO LASTING PEACE IN THE MIDDLE PEACE -- CLASHING CULTURES, DIFFERING HISTORICAL TRADITIONS, & GEOPOLITICS IN A HARSH ENVIRONMENT -- AN ADDITIONAL EXACERBATING FACTOR:  THE ISLAMIC "REPUBLIC" OF IRAN, ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM, & ITS CONSTANT THREATS TO "WIPE ISRAEL OFF THE MAP"

THE DANGER OF U.S. ENGAGEMENT WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN:  THE THREAT TO WORLD PEACE & AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY -- THE RISKS OF DIPLOMACY IN DEALING WITH THE PROBLEM OF IRAN

PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA & AMERICAN FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY VIS-A-VIS THE ISLAMIC WORLD:  IS PRESIDENT OBAMA USING TO ADVANTAGE HIS MUSLIM ROOTS & FAMILIARITY WITH THE ISLAMIC WORLDVIEW TO EFFECTIVELY PROMOTE U.S. STRATEGIC NATIONAL INTERESTS ABROAD & COUNTER THE GLOBAL JIHAD BEING WAGED BY THE ISLAMISTS AGAINST THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION?  IS OBAMA SINCERE IN HIS APPROACH TO THE ISLAMIC WORLD?

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD ISRAEL:  OBAMA'S PLAN FOR ETHNIC CLEANSING IN JERUSALEM -- HIS DEMAND THAT PARTS OF JERUSALEM BE PURGED OF JEWS & RESERVED FOR THE ARABS -- JUST HOW FAR DO OBAMA & HIS FAR-LEFTIST HENCHMEN PLAN TO GO WITH THEIR PRO-ARAB & ANTI-SEMITIC HARDLINE POLICY OF CONFRONTATION WITH ISRAEL, AS REGARDS ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS IN EAST JERUSALEM?  SINCE IT IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT ANY MAJOR ISRAELI POLITICAL PARTY WOULD AGREE TO MAKING A PART OF JERUSALEM A JUDENREIN, HOW SOON WILL OBAMA SUCCEED IN BREAKING UP THE AMERICAN-ISRAELI ALLIANCE?

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, U.S. FOREIGN POLICY, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT: OBAMA'S HARD-LINE POSITION ON ISRAEL'S WEST BANK SETTLEMENTS -- WILL OBAMA'S RADICALISM & HAM-HANDED DIPLOMACY SABOTAGE THE LONG-STANDING ALLIANCE BETWEEN ISRAEL & THE U.S.A.? THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY AS A SUBVERSIVE THREAT TO AMERICA'S VITAL NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

IRANIAN PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS & THE NEW TECHNOLOGY:  WILL THE NEW TECHNOLOGY ENABLE THE IRANIAN PROTESTERS TO OVERCOME GOVERNMENT FORCES? THE IMPORTANCE OF TECHNOLOGY TO STATE FORMATION & PRESERVATION -- ITS IMPORTANCE TO STATE DEGRADATION -- THE PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT ROLE TECHNOLOGY PLAYED IN STATE PRESERVATION IN IRAN -- IMPROVEMENTS IN COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY, THE RISE OF MASS POLITICAL MOVEMENTS, & THE VULNERABILITY OF UNPOPULAR POLITICAL REGIMES

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST:  PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA & U.S. IRANIAN POLICY -- OBAMA'S ERROR IN EXERCISING RHETORICAL RESTRAINT ADMIST IRANIAN PROTEST DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST THE TYRANNICAL REGIME OF THE AYATOLLAHS -- THE NEED FOR OBAMA TO DENOUNCE THE IRANIAN REGIME'S ATTACKS ON PEACEFUL DISSENT & SPEAK UP FOR THE PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM, LIBERTY, & FREE ELECTIONS -- THE NEED FOR CONGRESS TO BECOME ACTIVE & SPEAK UP, IF THE WHITE HOUSE CONTINUES TO SHIRK ITS LEADERSHIP DUTIES IN THE AREA OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY & NATIONAL SECURITY

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY:  THE NEED FOR A COHESIVE & COORDINATED U.S. STRATEGY RELATING TO IRAN -- ENHANCE U.S. CREDIBILITY BY CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEM RHETORIC & REALITY -- CONSISTENTLY ACT AS WELL AS TALK TOUGH -- INTEGRATE DIPLOMACY INTO A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGY THAT HAS INFORMATIONAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, ECONOMIC, & MILITARY COMPONENTS AS WELL -- DRAW RED LINES BOLDLY & IN INDELIBLE INK -- ACT DECISIVELY WITH MORAL CLARITY, SUPPORTING BROAD CONCEPTS SUCH AS LIBERTY & FREEDOM -- SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASE U.S. FUNDS BUDGETED FOR PERSIAN-LANGUAGE RADIO FARDA -- PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDEPENDENT TRADE UNIONS IN IRAN -- PROMOTE TRENDS & CONDITIONS THAT ARE LIKELY TO MAKE THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABLE TO THE IRANIAN CITIZENRY, RATHER THAN TO THE GOD OF ISLAM

POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST & THE GROWING THREAT OF ISLAMISM:  MIDDLE EASTERN MILITARIES HAVE SERVED AS THE MAIN BULWARK AGAINST THE SPREAD OR EMPOWERMENT OF THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT.  HOWEVER, WESTERN POLICYMAKERS MUST PREPARE FOR THE DAY THAT THE REGIONAL MILITARIES WILL SWITCH SIDES, CASTING THEIR LOT WITH ISLAMISTS, RATHER THAN WITH MORE SECULAR AUTOCRATS.

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  BARACK OBAMA'S APPEASEMENT OF THE ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME IN IRAN -- OBAMA'S FOCUS UPON DIPLOMACY AS THE MEANS OF DEALING WITH IRAN -- OBAMA'S REVERSAL OF U.S. POLICY TOWARD SYRIA -- OBAMA'S ARRGANCE & NAIVETE -- OBAMA & THE TRIUMPH OF ADVOCACY OVER ANALYSIS -- OBAMA & THE TRIUMPH OF RADICAL IDEOLOGY OVER REALITY -- OBAMA AS A SERIOUS THREAT TO AMERICA'S VITAL NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM, & WAR:  IS ISLAM INHERENTLY INTOLERANT, VIOLENT, & WAR-LIKE?  WHAT ABOUT JUDAISM?  WHAT ABOUT CHRISTIANITY?  THEOLOGY AS A FACTOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE DEGREE OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE CHARACTERISTIC OF A RELIGION -- HISTORY AS A FACTOR -- REFERENCES TO VIOLENCE IN THE BIBLE & IN THE QUR'AN -- DISTINGUISHING THE ISLAMIC JIHAD FROM WARS WAGED BY JEWS & CHRISTIANS -- A REASSESSMENT OF THE CRUSADES

THE FUTURE OF THE U.S.-ISRAELI ALLIANCE:  WILL THIS LONG-STANDING ALLIANCE SURVIVE ITS 62ND.YEAR?   WILL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE U.S.A. & ISRAEL OVER THE PROPOSED TWO-STATE SOLUTION PROMPT A CRISIS IN U.S.-ISRAELI RELATIONS?  WILL THE HIGHLY CRITICAL, ANTI-ZIONIST VIEWS OF PRESIDENT OBAMA & HIS FELLOW LEFTWING LIBERAL DEMOCRATS TRANSLATE INTO A SHIFT IN U.S. MIDDLE EAST POLICY AT THE FORTHCOMING SUMMIT MEETING BETWEEN OBAMA & NETANYAHU?  HOW DEEP DOES OBAMA'S ANTIPATHY TOWARD THE JEWISH STATE RUN? WHAT FACTORS ARE LIKELY TO MITIGATE THE ANTIPATHY?

AL-QA'IDA & THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD:  THE GLOBAL TERROR WAR THAT AL-QA'IDA HAS BEEN WAGING DURING THE PAST TWO DECADES -- AL-QA'IDA'S LONGTERM WAR AIMS -- PROBLEMS THAT THE ISLAMIST TERROR NETWORKS ARE CREATING FOR AMERICA & THE WEST IN THE MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH CENTRAL ASIA -- BARRIERS HINDERING U.S. INTELLIGENCE WORK IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR -- OBSTACLES TO U.S.-ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION

THE STATE OF ISRAEL VERSUS THE ISLAMIC FORCES OF THE MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH CENTRAL ASIA:  THE JEWS' HISTORICAL CLAIM TO A HOMELAND IN WESTERN ASIA -- THE HISTORY OF THE LAND OF ISRAEL SINCE ITS RE-ESTABLISHMENT AS A JEWISH STATE IN 1948 -- HOW ISRAELI POLITICS HAS WEAKENED ISRAELI NATIONAL SECURITY -- UNITED NATIONS EFFORTS TO DESTROY ISRAEL -- U.S. GOVERNMENT ACTIONS UNDERMINING THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- WHAT ISRAEL MUST DO IN ORDER TO SURVIVE AS A FREE & INDEPENDENT NATION-STATE

ACCURATE LANGUAGE & ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR: ACQUISITION & USE OF ACCURATE LANGUAGE ESSENTIAL TO ACQUISITION & USE OF ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE -- AQUISITION & USE OF ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE ESSENTIAL TO OUR VICTORY IN THE GLOBAL TERROR WAR THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST US -- THE UTTER FOLLY OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST IGNORING THE TRUE MEANING & SIGNIFICANCE OF "JIHAD" & "ISLAMIC JIHAD" -- JIHAD AS AS OFFENSIVE WARFARE TO SPREAD ISLAMIC HEGEMONY

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & THE WEAKNESS OF ITS FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH CENTRAL ASIA:  THE TALIBAN'S MARCH TO BUNER & THE U.S. RESPONSE -- OBAMA'S PERCEPTION OF THE UNDERLYING PROBLEM IN PAKISTAN AS LACK OF GOVERNMENT SERVICES & THE NEED FOR AID & DEVELOPMENT -- SEEKING TO NEGOTIATE WITH & ACCOMODATE THE TALIBAN -- USE OF "SMART POWER," RATHER THAN "HARD POWER" -- DIPLOMACY AS THE VANGUARD OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY -- WHAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION IS OVERLOOKING, AS REGARDS THE TALIBAN INSURGENCY IN PAKISTAN:  THE NATURE OF THE DANGER POSED BY EXTREMIST IDEOLOGY, ESPECIALLY WHEN COMBINED WITH DIPLOMACY ALLOWING ISLAMISTS TO ESTABLISH SAFE HAVENS FOR THEMSELVES -- WHAT PRESIDENT OBAMA & SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON NEED TO UNDERSTAND:  SOFT POWER, AID & DEVELOPMENT, NEGOTIATION, & ACCOMODATION ARE ABOUT AS EFFECTIVE AT COUNTERING ISLAMISM AS LOLLIPOPS ARE AT CURING CANCER.

THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT CONTINUES ITS GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST THE WEST & THE REST OF THE NON-MUSLIM WORLD.  THE ISLAMISTS THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH ASIA THREATEN TO TAKE OVER PAKISTAN & AFGHANISTAN.  THE WAR IS BEING WAGED BY FANATICAL ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS WHO BELIEVE THAT ALLAH DEMANDS AN ISLAMIC JIHAD AGAINST THE NON-MUSLIM WORLD, & THEY ARE PREPARED TO SPEND AS MUCH TIME & EFFORT AS NECESSARY TO ACHIEVE VICTORY.  THE TALIBAN & AL-QA'IDA SENSE SERIOUS WEAKNESS IN THE LEADERSHIP OF U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, & ARE DETERMINED TO EXPLOIT THAT WEAKNESS.

PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  OUTREACH TO IRAN AS THE FOREIGN POLICY CENTERPIECE OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION -- OBAMA'S BELIEF IN BORN-AGAIN DIPLOMACY, OPERATING ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE U.S.A., IN DEALING WITH ITS FOREIGN ADVERSARIES, CAN FORGET THE THE PAST & START ANEW -- OBAMA'S COMPLETE LACK OF COMPREHENSION OF REALITY IN THE ARENA OF IDEOLOGICALLY DRIVEN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD -- HIS ABYSMAL IGNORANCE OF THE NATURE OF THE IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME & ITS THREAT TO WORLD PEACE & U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY -- A HISTORY OF U.S.-IRANIAN RELATIONS SINCE THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION OF 1979 -- WHAT OBAMA NEEDS:  COMMON SENSE & A SERIOUS REALITY CHECK

THE "WATER JIHAD," OR "MONEY JIHAD":  THE RELATION OF ISLAMIC PIRACY TO ISLAMIC JIHADISM -- WHAT ISLAMIC HISTORY & DOCTRINE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP -- MORAL RELATIVISM IN CONTEMPORARY WESTERN LIBERAL THOUGHT & ITS DEBILITATING CONSEQUENCES -- INABILITY OF WESTERN STRATEGIC LEADERS TO OBJECTIVELY EXAMINE THE CENTURIES-OLD ROOTS OF ISLAMIC JIHADISM & DEVELOP A STRATEGY THAT WILL LEAD TO DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT & TO A LASTING SOLUTION TO THE CONFLICT BETWEEN ISLAM & THE WEST

AS AFGHANISTAN'S STABILITY HAS BECOME A U.S. STRATEGIC CONCERN, PREVENTING TENSIONS BETWEEN PAKISTAN & IRAN FROM AGAIN TRANSFORMING AFGHANISTAN INTO A PROXY BATTLEFIELD SHOULD BE AN IMPORTANT U.S. NATIONAL INTEREST.  BUT, SO LONG AS THE IRANIAN & PAKISTANI GOVERNMENTS REMAIN CONCERNED WITH THE DEFENSE OF SHI'I & SUNNI SECTARIAN INTERESTS RESPECTIVELY, U.S. & NATO FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN MAY NOT BE ABLE TO BRING STABILITY, BUT, AT BEST, MAY REMAIN REFEREES IN A STRUGGLE THAT EXTENDS FAR BEYOND THAT COUNTRY'S BORDERS.

U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S BOW TO THE KING OF SAUDI ARABIA:  THE BOW'S SIGNIFICANCE IN THE CULTURAL CONTEXT OF THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- HOW THE BOW MISREPRESENTS THE AMERICAN NATION & UNDERMINES ITS POSITION IN THE GLOBAL WAR TO DEFEND THE U.S.A. & THE WEST AGAINST ISLAMIC JIHADISM

THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY & U.S. POLICY TOWARD IRAN:  IRAN'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM & U.S. DIPLOMACY -- PRESIDENT OBAMA EMBRACING DIALOGUE WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY & THE IRANIAN REGIME EMBRACING DIPLOMACY WITHOUT SINCERITY -- OBAMA'S WILLINGNESS TO TALK & NEGOTIATE PERCEIVED BY THE IRANIAN POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO AVOID INTERNATIONAL SANCTIONS &, AT THE SAME TIME, CONTINUE ITS ENDEAVOR TO DEVELOP A NUCLEAR MILITARY CAPABILITY -- OBAMA'S IRANIAN POLICY AS A FOREIGN POLICY THAT IS UNWISE, UNREALISTIC, ARROGANT, NAIVE, & DANGEROUS

THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY & ITS DANGEROUS COURSE IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: PRESIDENT OBAMA'S DISGRACEFUL & EMBARASSING PANDERING TO AMERICA'S ENEMIES & FAIRWEATHER FRIENDS ABROAD -- OBAMA UNDERMINING AMERICA'S PRESTIGE AMONG THE SOVEREIGN STATES OF THE WORLD -- OBAMA WEAKENING THE U.S.A. AS A DETERRENT TO AGGRESSION ON THE PART OF RUTHLESS FOREIGN DICTATORSHIPS -- OBAMA UNDERMINING AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY -- OBAMA ENCOURAGING A REPEAT OF THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACKS ON THE U.S.A.

THE U.S.A. PHILOSOPHICALLY UNPREPARED TO DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST THE FORCES OF RADICAL ISLAM:  SERIOUS FLAWS IN AMERICAN TEXTBOOKS & INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS DEALING WITH ISLAM & ISLAMISM -- KNOWLEDGE OF AMERICA'S ISLAMIST & JIHADIST ENEMY SHACKLED BY THE BONDS OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS & WISHFUL THINKING -- THE FIRST STEP TO FORMULATING AN EFFECTIVE LONGTERM STRATEGY TO COUNTER & DEFEAT OUR ENEMY IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  OBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE REGARDING ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY, STRATEGY, & WAR-FIGHTING DOCTRINE

THE DECLINING VIABILITY & VALUE OF TURKEY'S ALLIANCE WITH THE U.S.A. & THE WEST: TURKEY'S ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME & THE GROWING UNRELIABILITY & DANGER OF TURKEY AS A MEMBER-STATE IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION -- NATO AS AN INSTITUTION HOBBLED & WEAKENED WITHIN BY AN ISLAMIST TURKEY -- NATO AS AN ALLIANCE FEARFUL OF OFFENDING A MEMBER-GOVERNMENT & THEREFORE INCAPABLE OF STANDING UP TO THE WEST'S MAIN ENEMY TODAY, NAMELY MILITANT ISLAM -- THE NEED FOR SERIOUS CONSIDERATION OF REMOVING TURKEY FROM MEMBERSHIP IN NATO

THE NEW ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER'S MAIDEN SPEECH:  TOPICS COVERED BY FOREIGN MINISTER AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN IN HIS SPEECH:  THE NEW WORLD ORDER, THE CHANGE NEEDED IN THE FREE WORLD'S INTERNATIONAL SECURITY PRIORITIES, EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI RELATIONS, THE FUTILITY OF GIVING LIP SERVICE TO WORLD PEACE, SHARING THE BURDEN OF REAL PEACE, THE ROAD MAP TO PEACE & ITS IMPLEMENTATION, THE MISTAKE OF MAKING CONCESSIONS, & WHEN ISRAEL WAS AT ITS STRONGEST IN TERMS OF PUBLIC OPINION.

PUBLIC RELATIONS & PERCEPTION OF UNDERDOG STATUS IN A CONTEMPORARY WAR: THE IMPORTANCE OF PROPAGANDA & CREATING ILLUSIONS IN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT

THE PALESTINIAN MINORITY THAT IS WILLING TO LIVE IN PEACE WITH THE STATE OF ISRAEL:  THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF THIS MINORITY IN THE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICT BETWEEN ARAB REJECTIONISTS & THE ZIONISTS -- THE MOTIVES OF THE ZIONISTS' PALESTINIAN ARAB ALLIES -- THE IMPORTANCE OF PALESTINIAN ASSISTANCE & COLLABORATION IN THE SUCCESS OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT IN ESTABLISHING & MAINTAINING THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN THE HOLY LAND

MOHAMMAD KHATAMI'S CALL FOR DIALOGUE BETWEEN IRAN & THE WEST:  TACTICAL & INSINCERE -- KHATAMI'S ANTI-SEMITISM, REJECTIONISM, PRACTICE OF CENSORSHIP & OPPRESSION, ACTIVE SUPPORT FOR ISLAMIC TERRORISM, COLLABORATION WITH ISLAMISTS, & PURSUIT OF AN IRANIAN NUCLEAR MILITARY CAPABILITY INDICATE THAT HE IS NO ADVOCATE OF TOLERANCE, OPEN-MINDEDNESS, FREE THOUGHT, HUMAN RIGHTS, CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, & LASTING PEACE BETWEEN ISLAM & THE WEST

THE TALIBAN INSURGENCY & THE STEADILY DETERIORATING SITUATION IN AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN:   WILL U.S., BRITISH, & ALLIED MILITARY FORCES BE ABLE TO CONDUCT AN EFFECTIVE COUNTER-INSURGENCY AGAINST THE TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN & THE TALIBAN-CONTROLLED AREAS OF PAKISTAN?  WEAKNESSES OF THE AFGHAN CENTRAL GOVERNMENT -- WEAKNESSES OF THE PAKISTANI CENTRAL GOVERNMENT -- WHAT SHOULD THE U.S.A. DO ABOUT AFGHANISTAN & THE TALIBAN?

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  WHAT IS INDICATED BY OBAMA'S NOMINATIONS FOR THE KEY MIDDLE EAST POSITIONS IN THE WHITE HOUSE & IN THE DEPARTMENTS OF STATE & DEFENSE -- IN WHAT DIRECTION IS THE PRESIDENT GOING WITH U.S. MIDEAST POLICY?  FOREIGN POLICY PROBLEMS THAT MAY ARISE

WHY SOME MUSLIMS SEEK "MARTYRDOM" THROUGH BECOMING SUICIDE BOMBERS & WAGING JIHAD AGAINST CHRISTIANS, JEWS, & OTHER NON-MUSLIMS:  THE IMPACT OF ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS DOGMA ON THE POLITICAL BEHAVIOR OF MUSLIMS -- "THE TORMENTS OF THE GRAVE" & THE SPECIAL IMPORTANCE OF THIS PARTICULAR MUSLIM DOCTRINE -- WHY WESTERNERS & OTHER "ENEMIES OF ALLAH" MUST TAKE ISLAM'S RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES SERIOUSLY

WILL BINYAMIN NETANYAHU KEEP HIS ELECTION CAMPAIGN PROMISES?  WILL HE PUT AN END TO HAMAS CONTROL OF GAZA?  WILL HE KEEP THE GOLAN HEIGHTS UNDER ISRAELI CONTROL?  WHAT CONCLUSIONS SHOULD BE DEDUCED FROM (1) THE GENERAL PATTERN OF BEHAVIOR OF THE FOUR LIKUD PRIME MINISTERS SINCE 1977 & (2) NATANYAHU'S OWN RECOND AS ONE OF THOSE FOUR PRIME MINISTERS?  WILL NETANYAHU AGAIN BETRAY THE ISRAELI VOTERS?

ISRAEL'S GREATEST NEED:  ISRAELI POLITICAL LEADERS WHO UNDERSTAND THE COUNTRY'S STRATEGIC IMPERATIVES

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT: THE DEMANDS OF A SAUDI PRINCE WHO HAS A HISTORY OF ISLAMIST RADICALISM VIS-A-VIS THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT -- PRINCE TURKI AL-FAISAL'S INSTRUCTIONS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA ON WHAT THE U.S. GOVERNMENT MUST DO DO IN ORDER TO CONTINUE PLAYING A LEADERSHIP ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST & KEEP ITS STRATEGIC ALLIANCES INTACT, ESPECIALLY ITS SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA -- TURKI'S DEMAND THAT THERE BE A DRASTIC REVISION IN U.S. POLICIES VIS-A-VIS ISRAEL & PALESTINE

WHAT DRIVES THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT & THE GLOBAL JIHAD IT IS WAGING AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST:   ISLAM & ISLAMIC CULTURE AS COMPRISING THE SOURCE OF THE CONFLICT -- ISLAM AS LEADING TO AGGRESSION TOWARD NON-MUSLIMS, OR "INFIDELS" -- TO UNDERSTAND ISLAMISM & JIHADISM, ONE MUST EXAMINE ISLAM'S OWN PECULIAR IDEOLOGICAL WORLDVIEW, AS OUTLINED IN THE KORAN & THE HADITH, ARTICULATED BY THE ULEMA (MUSLIM THEOLOGIAN-SCHOLARS), & CODIFIED IN SHARIA (ISLAMIC) LAW

HEZBOLLAH'S FUTURE IN LEBANON & THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE GROUP'S WEAKNESS & FAILURES -- HOW THE WEST CAN NEUTRALIZE HEZBOLLAH'S PROPAGANDA MACHINE & PUNCTURE INFLATED ARAB & LEBANESE PERCEPTIONS OF THE ORGANIZATION -- TAKING THE FIRST STEPS NECESSARY TO NEUTRALIZING THE THREAT THAT HEZBOLLAH POSES TO LEBANON & TO MIDDLE EASTERN REGIONAL STABILITY

THE NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAJORITY & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  WILL THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY & THE CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS TURN THEIR BACKS ON ISRAEL & SUPPORT HAMAS & HEZBOLLAH?

A DANGEROUS GAP IN THE MILITARY STUDIES PROGRAMS CARRIED ON BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE:  SENIOR SERVICE WAR COLLEGES TOTALLY IGNORING ISLAMIC WAR-FIGHTING DOCTRINE -- FAILURE OF THE WAR COLLEGES TO INCORPORATE INTO THEIR CURRICULUM A SYSTEMATIC STUDY OF MUHAMMAD AS A MILITARY OR POLITICAL LEADER -- OUR CONSEQUENT LACK OF AN IN-DEPTH UNDERSTANDING OF THE WAR DOCTRINE BEING FOLLOWED BY ISLAMISTS IN THEIR GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- OUR RESULTANT FAILURE TO TAKE THE MOST BASIC & SIMPLE ADVICE REGARDING WARFARE:  WU SUN TZU'S ANCIENT DICTUM, "KNOW THY ENEMY" -- ADDITIONAL DIFFICULTY:  THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S INABILITY OR UNWILLINGNESS TO EVEN ACKNOWLEDGE OUR JIHADIST ENEMY & ITS IDEOLOGICAL ROOTS IN ISLAM

THE ISRAELI-HAMAS WAR & THE DEMAND FOR A CEASEFIRE:  NO TIME FOR A CEASEFIRE IN THE WAR IN WHICH ISRAEL IS DEFENDING ITSELF AGAINST HAMAS, A MASSIVELY FINANCED & ARMED ISLAMIST TERRORIST ENTITY THAT IS WAGING A JIHAD TO CONQUER & DESTROY ISRAEL & TO KILL ALL JEWS, THOSE IN THE DIASPORA AS WELL AS THOSE IN ISRAEL -- THE RULES OF WAR IN A JIHAD & HOW ISLAMISTS, UNDER THESE RULES, UTILIZE HUDNAS, OR CEASEFIRES, IN THEIR TERROR WAR AGAINST THE NON-MUSLIM WORLD -- THE DISASTROUS EVENTS THAT WOULD ENSUE, SHOULD ISRAEL & THE WEST GIVE UP THE STRUGGLE AGAINST ISLAMIST TERRORISM

THE GROWING ISLAMIST THREAT IN TURKEY:  THE RULING JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY (AKP) AS THE CHIEF INSTRUMENT FOR TRANSFORMING TURKEY INTO AN ISLAMIST STATE -- THE AKP WORKING TO ADVANCE AN ISLAMIST AGENDA & UNDERMINE SECULARISM IN TURKEY -- THE AKP ABANDONING THE COMPROMISING & POWER SHARING THAT ARE ESSENTIAL TO THE EXISTENCE & EFFECTIVE OPERATION OF A STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY

OUR NATIONAL LEADERS' WEAK-KNEED DEFINITION OF AMERICA'S ENEMY IN THE CURRENT GLOBAL CONFLICT:   THE RELUCTANCE OF OUR LEADERS TO FACE REALITY & DESCRIBE THE ISLAMIST ENEMY AS DRIVEN BY A TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGY BASED ON THE ISLAMIC RELIGION -- A SELF-IMPOSED STRAITJACKET WHICH HINDERS DISCUSSION OF AN ENEMY THAT WISHES TO SUBJUGATE THE ENTIRE WORLD UNDER SHARI'A LAW, A STRAITJACKET WHICH LEAVES US WITH VERY LITTLE CHANCE OF KNOWING & DEFEATING THE ENEMY -- WHAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WILL NEED TO DO ABOUT GOVERNMENT POLICIES THAT DOWNPLAY CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ISLAM & ISLAMIST TERRORISM

TURKEY, GEOPOLITICS, & THE THREAT OF ISLAMISM:  HOW PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN & THE RULING JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY (AKP) HAVE CHANGED TURKEY'S FUNDAMENTAL IDENTITY & ITS POSITION IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- HOW FETHULLAH GULEN & HIS MOVEMENT ARE WORKING TO TRANSFORM TURKEY INTO AN ISLAMIST STATE

THE ISRAELI-HAMAS WAR:  WHICH SIDE IS WINNING, WHICH SIDE IS LOSING?  THE NEED FOR A COOL STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT -- THE REAL ISSUE:  BAD DECISIONS MADE IN JERUSALEM -- CONSIDERING THOSE DECISIONS, HOW WELL HAS ISRAEL'S LEADERSHIP PERFORMED?  JERUSALEM'S PROFOUND STRATEGIC INCOMPETENCE & DISASTROUS PERFORMANCE -- THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT'S FAILED POLICIES SINCE 1993 THAT HAVE ERODED ISRAEL'S REPUTATION, STRATEGIC ADVANTAGE, & NATIONAL SECURITY -- HOW THE ISRAELI LEADERSHIP CREATED THE GAZA PROBLEM -- ISRAEL AS A POLITY FULL OF TALENT, ENERGY & RESOLVE, BUT LACKING DIRECTION

THE OLD QUANDARY THAT ISRAEL'S WAR AGAINST HAMAS BRINGS UP:  WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE PALESTINIANS?  WHAT DOES NOT & CANNOT WORK -- THE ONLY PRACTICAL APPROACH:  EGYPTIAN RULE IN THE GAZA STRIP & JORDANIAN CONTROL OF THE WEST BANK

THE NUMEROUS DISPARITIES BEHIND THE PROPAGANDA OF ISLAMISTS:  HIGHLIGHTING THE CONTRADICTIONS REFLECTED IN AL-QA'IDA'S WORDS -- WHAT AL-QA'IDA TELLS THE WEST ARE THE REASONS WHY THE FORMER WAGES A TERROR WAR AGAINST THE LATTER -- WHAT AL-QA'IDA PREACHES TO MUSLIMS REGARDING ISLAM'S RELATIONSHIP TO THE WEST & THE REST OF THE NON-MUSLIM WORLD -- JIHAD AS RECIPROCITY, AS RETALIATION FOR WESTERN INJUSTICE TO & OPPRESSION OF MUSLIMS -- JIHAD AS A RELIGIOUS OBLIGATION, AS A TERROR WAR DRIVEN BY THE COMMANDS OF A RELIGION-BASED TOTALITARIAN POLITICAL IDEOLOGY

ISRAELI MILITARY ACTION AGAINST HAMAS IN GAZA & KNEE-JERK CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMANY TO PRESSURE ISRAEL INTO ENDING ITS ATTACK:  HAMAS POLICY AS THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE CURRENT MILITARY CONFLICT IN GAZA -- THE IMPACT OF EUROPEAN & UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC AID TO PALESTINIANS ON HAMAS ROCKET & MORTAR FIRE FROM GAZA INTO ISRAEL -- THE ROLE OF SYRIA & IRAN IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- THE ROAD TO A SUSTAINABLE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST

THE MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION:  A DEN OF POLITICAL PROPAGANDISTS & ACTIVISTS POSING AS SCHOLARS -- A BASTION OF GROUPTHINK FOR RADICAL ACTIVISTS ENGAGED IN POLITICALLY BIASED RESEARCH, ONE-SIDED TEACHING, & PEDDLING A PRO-ARAB, ANTI-WESTERN POLITICAL AGENDA -- A HIVE OF ACADEMIC OPPOSITION TO ISRAEL & THE U.S.A. -- FAILURE TO PROVIDE USEFUL INFORMATION ON ISLAM, ISLAMISM, & THE MIDDLE EAST -- DISREGARD OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY & NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS -- THE POLITICIZED, ANTI-WESTERN OLD GUARD STILL IN CONTROL OF MESA

THE PALESTINIANS' TROUBLED PATH TO STATEHOOD AS A PRODUCT OF THEIR OWN POLITICAL DIVISIONS -- THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN HAMAS & FATAH FOR THE TWO PALESTINIAN ARAB TERRITORIES & THE IMPACT OF THE STRUGGLE ON THE SECURITY & SURVIVAL OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- THE IMPACT OF THE STRUGGLE ON THE ISREALI-ARAB PEACE PROCESS & ITS EVENTUAL OUTCOME

THE COMING OBAMA PRESIDENCY & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY:  U.S. POLICY TOWARD IRAN -- ENTHUSIASM IN WASHINGTON ABOUT THE PROSPECTS FOR RENEWED ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN THE U.S.A. & IRAN -- THE TENDENCY OF MANY DIPLOMATS TO PRIVILEGE ADVOCACY OVER ANALYSIS & ASSOCIATE DIPLOMACY WITH DEMOCRATS -- LIBERAL INTERNATIONALIST MYTHS & IDEOLOGICAL BLIND SPOTS -- THE GREAT GAP BETWEEN RHETORIC & REALITY

HOW THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY WILL HANDLE THE THREAT OF AN IRAN WITH NUCLEAR AMBITIONS:  BARACK OBAMA'S PROMISE TO PURSUE A U.S. IRANIAN POLICY THAT WILL BEGIN WITH DIRECT ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAN -- WHY SUCH A POLICY WILL NOT BE NEW -- CONSTRAINTS ON PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FREEDOM OF ACTION IN DEVELOPING A NEW APPROACH TO DEALING WITH IRAN -- FIVE DISTINCT STRATEGIC OPTIONS & THE COURSES OF ACTION LIKELY TO BE RECOMMENDED BY OBAMA'S FOREIGN POLICY & NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISORS -- SUCCESS OR FAILURE IN THE EFFORT TO PREVENT IRAN FROM BECOMING A NUCLEAR POWER

SYRIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, & U.S. FOREIGN FOLICY:  OBAMA PLANNING DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT WITH SYRIA, HOPING TO WEAKEN SYRIA'S CONNECTION TO HAMAS & HEZBOLLAH & UNDERMINE THE SYRIAN-IRANIAN RELATIONSHIP -- ARAB HISTORY & POLITICAL CULTURE AS THE PRIMARY PROBLEM WITH PURSUIT OF OBAMA'S POLICY AGENDA IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- WHY ALL THREE RIVALS FOR LEADERSHIP OF THE ARAB WORLD, SYRIA, IRAQ & EGYPT, WILL NEVER COEXIST SIMULTANEOUSLY AS PARTNERS

MUSLIM REACTIONS TO THE VICTORY OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, JR., IN THE 2008 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION:   REACTIONS TO THE COMING OBAMA PRESIDENCY MIXED -- QUESTIONS REMAIN

INADEQUACY & IMBALANCE IN COVERAGE OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT: ACADEMIC & JOURNALISTIC BIAS & NEGLECT -- LACK OF ATTENTION TO THE INTERNAL STRIFE BETWEEN PALESTINIAN FACTIONS & TO THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN GAZA & THE WEST BANK -- U.S. MAINSTREAM MEDIA OVERREPORTING OF THE VIOLENCE BETWEEN PALESTINIANS & ISRAELIS & PROVIDING LITTLE OR NO COVERAGE OF THE EARLY STAGES OF THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN FATAH & HAMAS -- CONCEPTUAL MISTAKES & THE COST FOR U.S. FOREIGN POLICY OF INATTENTION TO THE FATAH-HAMAS FITNA

DEFENDING AMERICA IN THE WAR THAT IRAN IS WAGING AGAINST US:  THE IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME & ITS COOPERATION & SUPPORT OF THE ISLAMIST TERROR WAR AGAINST THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES -- THE FUTILITY & DANGER OF U.S. DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT WITH THE IRANIAN REGIME -- IRAN AS AMERICA'S PRINCIPAL ENEMY IN THE MIDDLE EAST & SOUTH CENTRAL ASIA -- IRAN AS AN IMPLACABLE BUT HIGHLY VULNERABLE FOE, A REGIME THAT COULD & SHOULD BE MILITARILY DEFEATED & OVERTHROWN SOON

IRAN, THE U.S.A., & THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA:  NEITHER THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION NOR THE COMING OBAMA PRESIDENCY APPEARS WILLING TO TAKE THE MEASURES NECESSARY TO DETER OR CONTAIN A NUCLEAR IRAN.  THE NATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN WASHINGTON, D.C. IS SIGNALING THAT THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC HAS A GREEN LIGHT TO CLAIM REGIONAL DOMINANCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA. & TO CARRY OUT ITS THREATS TO ANNIHILATE ISRAEL.  WASHINGTON IS ALSO SIGNALING TO U.S. ALLIES IN THE REGION THAT THEY ARE ON THEIR OWN & THAT THE U.S. COMMITMENT TO PROTECT THEM IS EMPTY.

U.S. DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAN:  THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S PLAN TO ESTABLISH A U.S. INTERESTS SECTION IN TEHRAN MANNED BY U.S. DIPLOMATS -- AN ILL-THOUGHT-OUT & POORLY TIMED FOREIGN POLICY INITIATIVE THAT SHOULD BE DROPPED

AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY & ITS CIRCLES OF INFLUENCE:  OBAMA'S LONG LIST OF OBJECTIONABLE & RADICAL ALLIANCES -- OBAMA'S ASSOCIATIONS WITH TERRORISTS & TERRORIST SYMPHATHIZERS -- OBAMA'S TUTELAGE UNDER MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROFESSORS WHO VIEW AMERICA & ISRAEL AS IMPERIALIST POWERS RESPONSIBLE FOR VIRTUALLY EVERY SHORTCOMING & FAILURE IN THE MUSLIM WORLD, INCLUDING RADICAL ISLAM -- AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY UNDER AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY

U.S. MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN AFGHANISTAN:  SHOULD THE U.S.A. WITHDRAW ITS TROOPS FROM AFGHANISTAN OR EXPAND THE U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE THERE?  A DECISION THAT MUST BE MADE BY THE NEXT U.S. PRESIDENT

HISTORY OF THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT:  JEWS & ARABS IN THE MIDDLE EAST PRIOR TO 1948 -- EARLY ZIONIST ATTITUDES TOWARD THE ARAB POPULATION OF PALESTINE -- DAVID BEN-GURION ON THE ORIGIN OF THE FALAHIN -- BEN-GURION ON PALESTINIAN ARAB RIGHTS -- CHAIM WEIZMANN ON THE NATIONAL RIGHTS OF PALESTINIANS -- BEN-GURION ON PALESTINIAN SELF-DETERMINATION -- ZE'EV JABOTINSKY ON JEWISH IMMIGRATION TO PALESTINE & ON PALESTINIAN ARAB FEARS OF A MASSIVE IMMIGRATION

WHAT THE PLO PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED IN SOKOLOW VERSUS THE PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION (SEPTEMBER 30, 2008):  THE PLO REMAINS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION WAGING A TERROR WAR AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL

IRAN'S ECONOMIC TROUBLES & AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY:  ECONOMIC DECLINE IN IRAN, DUE TO THE FLAWED POLICIES & UNWISE ACTIONS OF IRAN'S ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME -- WHY THE U.S.A. SHOULD NOT RELAX SANCTIONS ON THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC -- WHY AMERICA SHOULD NOT THROW AN ECONOMIC LIFELINE TO A TERROR-SPONSORING REGIME DEDICATED TO THE AQUISITION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS CAPABILITY

MODERN ISRAEL -- ITS PAST & FUTURE:  THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & THE USE OF HISTORY -- USING HISTORY TO LEARN HOW TO MOVE ISRAEL FORWARD OVER THE NEXT SIXTY YEARS -- WILL ISRAEL'S PRESENT & FUTURE NATIONAL LEADERS BE UP TO THE TASK?

THE EXTENT OF MUSLIM SUPPORT FOR THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT:  WHO ARE THE ISLAMISTS? HOW MANY ISLAMISTS ARE THERE?  WHAT ARE THEIR GOALS?  ISLAMISM & ISLAMIC LAW -- HOW MANY ADHERENTS OF MILITANT ISLAM ENDORSE THE RESORT TO VIOLENCE TO ACHIEVE WORLDWIDE APPLICATION OF THE SHARI'A?

HOW THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A. WILL COPE WITH THE MOST IMMEDIATE FOREIGN POLICY CHALLENGE FACING THE AMERICAN NATION, NAMELY, IRANIAN NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENT:  WILL A CHANGE IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS IRAN BE ENOUGH TO ALTER THE INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH THE U.S.A. HAS TO OPERATE?  DIVERGENT U.S. & IRANIAN ATTITUDES TOWARDS DIPLOMACY -- WESTERN UTOPIAN NOTIONS OF NEGOTIATION & COMPROMISE VERSUS IRANIAN TAQIYYA & DECEIT -- U.S. NAVEL-GAZING VERSUS THE REALITY OF IRANIAN STRATEGIC PLANNING

THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS AS THE CORE OF THE IRANIAN STATE:  THE IRGC AS THE PRAETORIAN GUARD OF THE SUPREME LEADER OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN -- THE IRGC AS A MULTIFACETED ORGANIZATION WITH INTERNAL SECURITY & MILITARY DEFENSE FUNCTIONS & A MISSION TO ENFORCE REVOLUTIONARY VALUES AT HOME & EXPORT THEM ABROAD -- THE QODS FORCE:  ITS FUNCTIONS & ITS RELATION TO THE SUPREME LEADER -- THE IRGC & QODS FORCE AS DELIBERATE CREATIONS OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC'S GOVERNMENT, TIGHTLY CONTROLLED BY THE GOVERNMENT & EXISTING TO SERVE THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY OBJECTIVES IN IRAN & ABROAD

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN:  APPEASEMENT OF AN IDEOLOGICALLY DRIVEN ENEMY OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- THE FLAWED PRESUMPTION THAT THE ISLAMIST-MAHDIST LEADERS OF IRAN ARE REASONABLE & PEACEFUL, WILLING TO NEGOTIATE IN GOOD FAITH, & OPEN TO MUTUALLY ACCEPTABLE COMPROMISE -- THE NEED TO RESIST & REJECT THE MISTAKEN IDEA THAT WE CAN & SHOULD PURSUE A POLICY OF APPEASEMENT & ACCOMODATION OF IDEOLOGICAL ENEMIES

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARDS THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN:  THE INCREASING POSSIBILITY OF U.S. FOCUS ON CONTAINMENT OF IRAN -- CONTAINMENT POLICY AS AN ATTEMPT TO PREVENT IRAN, EMBOLDENED BY ITS POSSESSION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS & BALISTIC MISSILES, FROM USING ITS PROXIES OR CONVENTIONAL FORCES IN REGIONAL OPERATIONS TO EXTEND IRANIAN INFLUENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA -- CONTRAINTS ON A U.S. CONTAINMENT STRATEGY TO BLOCK IRANIAN AGGRESSION

MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, SHI'ISM, & MAHDISM:  AHMADINEJAD AS PRESIDENT OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN & A DANGEROUS HALLUCINATIVE RELIGIOUS FANATIC LOOKING FORWARD TO THE RETURN OF THE MAHDI, SHI'I ISLAM'S MESSIANIC FIGURE, WHO IS EXPECTED TO ESTABLISH & RUN A WORLD GOVERNMENT FREE FROM ALL CONSTITUTIONAL & DEMOCRATIC PRETENCES & WHO, APPEARING FIRST IN IRAN, WILL FORCIBLY SPREAD THE MUSLIM RELIGION THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE WORLD -- BELIEF THAT THE MAHDI'S ADVENT IS NOT ONLY INEVITABLE, BUT CAN BE ACCELERATED THROUGH HUMAN ACTION -- MAHDISM AS A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN & STRATEGIC POLICY, A HIGHLY AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL REGIME, & AN IDEOLOGICAL WORLD VIEW

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY, & AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA:  WAGING POLITICAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE IN THE CONFLICT WITH THE ISLAMIST REGIME IN IRAN -- JEFFREY GEDMIN:  "OUR IRANIAN COLLEAGUES BELIEVE IN RADIO FARDA'S MISSION."

THE IRANIAN ECONOMY:  THE CAUSES & CONSEQUENCES OF IRAN'S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS -- ECONOMIC MISMANAGEMENT DURING IRAN'S IMPERIAL & REVOLUTIONARY ERAS -- OIL-CENTERED, STATIST, QUASI-SOCIALIST, POPULIST POLICIES -- GOVERNMENT SUBSIDATION OF CONSUMER GOODS, IMPOSITION OF PRICE CONTROLS, & GOVERNMENT REGULATION, CONTROL, & DIRECTION OF ALL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY -- POLICYMAKERS ALLOWING ISLAMIST & THIRD-WORLD SOCIALIST IDEOLOGIES TO PREVAIL OVER COMMON SENSE & ECONOMIC WISDOM -- RESULTS:   POOR ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE, DECLINING NATIONAL INCOME, RAPID INFLATION, LACK OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT, HIGH LEVELS OF UNEMPLOYMENT, A WIDENING GAP BETWEEN RICH & POOR, & A SIGNIFICANT DECLINE IN LIVING STANDARDS

COUNTERINSURGENCY & CONVENTIONAL WARFARE:  CAN A SOVEREIGN STATE & ITS AGENCIES PREVAIL IN A COUNTERINSURGENCY WAR WAGED AGAINST A NONSTATE ENEMY?  CAN A SOVEREIGN STATE SUCCESSFULLY DEFEND ITSELF & ITS VITAL INTERESTS AGAINST INSURGENCY & TERRORISM?

AN ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-SEMITIC, PRO-ARAB HISTORY PROFESSOR & MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ACADEMIC GLEEFULLY PREDICTS THE IMMINENT DEMISE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS A MAJOR WORLD POWER -- JOEL BEININ SHOWCASES THE FLAWS OF MANY COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROGRAMS IN THE U.S.A.

THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS CORPS & POLITICAL DECISION-MAKING IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN:  FORMER IRGC COMMANDERS INFILTRATING THE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, & CULTURAL LIFE OF IRAN -- THE IRGC CEMENTING A COMMANDING INFLUENCE OVER POLITICAL DECISION-MAKING -- THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK & HISTORY OF IRGC POLITIZATION -- THE RISE OF THE IRGC UNDER PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD -- CURRENT POLITICAL TRENDS IN IRAN AS PAVING THE WAY FOR A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP

MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD'S POLICIES & THE IRANIAN ECONOMY:  INFLATION AS THE CHIEF DOMESTIC ISSUE IN IRAN -- AHMADINEJAD'S POLICIES BLAMED FOR RUNAWAY INFLATION & SHORTAGES OF BASIC COMMODITIES -- THE REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS DEPLOYED TO COUNTER POTENTIAL POLITICAL UNREST

MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD:  THE PSYCHOTIC PRESIDENT OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN & HIS THREAT TO DESTROY ISRAEL & THE WEST -- AHMADINEJAD'S POORLY DISGUISED HINT THAT THE IRANIAN REGIME PLANS TO USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO DESTROY ISRAEL, EUROPE, & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- THE DIRE NEED FOR ISRAEL &/OR THE U.S.A. TO BLOW IRAN'S NUCLEAR FACILITIES OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH -- THE ABSOLUTE IMPERATIVE OF REMOVING FROM THIS WORLD A VERY DANGEROUS NUTCASE RUNNING LOOSE & WIELDING GOVERNMENTAL POWER

SENATOR JOSEPH ROBINETTE "JOE" BIDEN -- THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANDIDATE FOR U.S. VICE-PRESIDENT IN THE ELECTION OF 2008:  BIDEN'S WEAKNESSES IN THE AREA OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- A PERSISTENT & DANGEROUS JUDGEMENT DEFICIT SUGGESTED BY HIS RECORD ON THE ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME IN IRAN -- HIS UNYIELDING PURSUIT OF "ENGAGEMENT WITH" (THAT IS, APPEASEMENT OF) IRAN -- MAKING IT EASIER FOR TEHRAN TO PURSUE ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM -- OPPOSING TOUGH SANCTIONS AGAINST THE HARDLINERS IN THE IRANIAN REGIME & IN THE REVOLUTIONARY GUARD -- OPPOSING CONGRESSIONAL LEGISLATION TO DESIGNATE IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARD AS A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION -- BIDEN AS TEHRAN'S FAVORITE U.S. SENATOR

THE MISSION OF TUNISIAN POLITICAL DISSIDENT MOHSEN MARZOUK:  OPPOSING DICTATORSHIP & PROMOTING THE DEMOCRATIZATION PROCESS IN TUNISIA & THROUGHOUT NORTH AFRICA AS A WHOLE

ACHIEVING MODERNITY & MODERATION IN THE MUSLIM WORLD:  THE TUNISIAN MODEL FOR AN ISLAMIC REFORMATION -- TUNISIA'S DEVELOPMENT IN RECENT YEARS OF AN ENVIRONMENT OF CO-EXISTENCE AMONG JEWS, CHRISTIANS & MUSLIMS, AN ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH MODERNITY SERVES AS A COMMON DENOMINATOR & RELIGION DOES NOT GET IN THE WAY OF ONE'S DAY-TO-DAY LIFE -- TUNISIA'S POLITICAL STABILITY, WESTERN-ARAB SYNTHESIS, & ECONOMIC VISION:  A POSSIBLE PARADIGM FOR OTHER MIDDLE EASTERN STATES

ISRAEL & IRAN:  WILL ISRAEL TAKE MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRANIAN FACILITIES REFINING FISSIONABLE MATERIALS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS? WHAT WOULD BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF SUCH ACTION? A CONSIDERATION OF THE DIFFERENT POSSIBLE SCENARIOS

PRO-PALESTINIAN, PRO-ARAB, ANTI-ISRAELI PROPAGANDA ACTIVITY IN THE U.S.A.: PALESTINIANS & THEIR RADICAL ACTIVIST SYMPATHIZERS IN THE U.S.A. SEEKING POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION OF AMERICAN STUDENTS -- THE "POPULAR PALESTINIAN CONFERENCE 2008" PLANNING TO DEMAND AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULA THAT COVER THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT IN A MANNER THAT IDENTIFIES ISRAEL AS THE AGGRESSOR & OPPRESSOR, THE PALESTINIAN ARABS AS THE PERPETUAL VICTIMS, & THE U.S.A. AS AN ACCOMPLICE IN CRIME -- INVOLVEMENT OF UNIVERSITY MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ACADEMICS IN THE ENDEAVOR TO DEMONIZE ISRAEL & TO PROMOTE & JUSTIFY DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWISH STATE

U.S. DIPLOMACY & IRAN'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM:  CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH DIPLOMACY CAN UNDERMINE U.S. CREDIBILITY & ACCELERATE CONFLICT -- DIPLOMACY MINUS THE PRELIMINARY WORK NECESSARY FOR ITS SUCCESS -- LACK OF ATTENTION TO TIMING OF DIPLOMATIC MOVES -- UNILATERAL ABANDONMENT OF ESTABLISHED REDLINES & SET PRECONDITIONS FOR ENTERING INTO NEGOTIATIONS -- THE DAMAGE DONE BY PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH'S JULY, 2008, DECISION TO SEND A REPRESENTATIVE TO GENEVA TO JOIN A MEETING WITH IRAN'S NUCLEAR NEGOTIATOR

AMERICAN COMMENTARY ON THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT & ITS FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS:  RESISTING EFFORTS TO CENSOR & SILENCE INDEPENDENT U.S. ANALYSTS WHO CRITICIZE POLICY DECISIONS MADE BY THE GOVERNMENT OF ISRAEL -- DEFENDING THE RIGHT OF FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSTS LIVING IN THE U.S.A., BUT NOT ASSOCIATED WITH OR EMPLOYED BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, TO PUBLICLY EXPRESS DISAGREEMENT WITH THE POLICIES OF ISRAELI PRIME MINISTERS & CABINETS -- REJECTING THE NOTION THAT ONE'S LOCATION, AGE, ETHNICITY, ACADEMIC DEGREES, OR SOME OTHER QUALITY VALIDATES ONE'S VIEWS -- REFUTING THE CONTENTION THAT LIVING IN A COUNTRY NECESSARILY MAKES ONE WISER ABOUT THAT COUNTRY & THE ACTIONS OF ITS GOVERNMENT

THE U.S.A. & THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE MIDDLE EAST, AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS, & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY -- ISRAEL'S SAFETY & SECURITY AS A FUNDAMENTAL AMERICAN INTEREST -- ISLAMIC TERRORISM, ITS CAUSES & CONSEQUENCES, & THE THREAT IT POSES TO AMERICA & THE WEST -- THE AMERICAN MILITARY PRESENCE IN IRAQ -- THE BUSH DOCTRINE -- SERIOUS FLAWS IN KENNETH POLLACK'S ANALYSIS: UNDERPLAYING THE IMPORTANCE OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY AS A CAUSE OF TERRORISM & POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- FAILURE TO ADDRESS HOW TO REFORM THE BLOATED & INEFFECTIVE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT BUREAUCRACY & ITS COUNTERPARTS IN THE UNITED NATIONS & OTHER INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, BUREAUCRACIES WHICH IMPEDED IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BUSH DOCTRINE IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM

U.S. FOREIGN & MILITARY POLICY FORMULATION DURING THE INITIAL STAGES OF THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:   SOME OF THE THOUGHTS DEVELOPED BY U.S. POLICYMAKERS IN THE IMMEDIATE AFTERMATH OF THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACK ON THE U.S.A. -- DEVELOPMENT OF A DEFENSIVE & OFFENSIVE STRATEGY FOR THE WAR ON ISLAMIST TERRORISM -- LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE WAR AGAINST THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST TERROR NETWORK & THE STATES SUPPORTING THE NETWORK -- THE AL-QA'IDA-IRAQ CONNECTION & THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE & THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY -- HOW THE CIA & THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE POLITICIZED INTELLIGENCE, LEAKED INFORMATION, SHAPED THE AMERICAN PUBLIC'S CONCEPTION OF THE IRAQ WAR, & UNDERMINED POPULAR SUPPORT FOR THE WAR -- A VERY COSTLY ERROR IN IRAQ -- THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM IN IRAQ

THE IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME & U.S. DIPLOMACY:  CURRENT U.S. DIPLOMACY BREATHING NEW LIFE INTO MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD'S FAILING REGIME -- THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S REVERSAL OF POSITION & CURRENT APPEASEMENT OF IRAN -- DIPLOMATIC MALPRACTICE ON A CARTER-ESQUE LEVEL -- THE SIGNIFICANCE & CONSEQUENCES OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S WEAK-KNEED, FLIP-FLOP FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD IRAN:  GIVING THE APPEARANCE OF U.S. WILLINGNESS TO YIELD TO THE ISLAMIST REGIME'S BLUNT DEFIANCE OF THE U.S.A., CONTINUATION OF THE REGIME'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM, & IRANIAN-BACKED TERRORISTS' MURDER OF AMERICAN TROOPS IN IRAQ -- FACILITATING AHMADINEJAD'S RE-ELECTION AS IRANIAN PRESIDENT IN 2009

THE SIXTY-YEAR HISTORY OF THE MODERN STATE OF ISRAEL:  THE HIGH POINTS & LOW POINTS IN ISRAELI HISTORY -- ACCOUNTING FOR THE LOW POINTS -- PROPOSING TWO CONSULATIONS:  ISRAEL AS A POWERFUL COUNTRY THAT CAN AFFORD TO MAKE MISTAKES -- TERMINATION OF ISRAEL'S OBLIGATION TO PROTECT CHILD-MURDERER SAMIR KUNTAR

ISRAELI-SYRIAN RELATIONS:  SYRIAN THREATS & ISRAELI MILITARY ACTION -- THE ISRAELI AIR FORCE ATTACK ON SYRIA'S SUSPECTED NUCLEAR FACILITY -- HOW THIS AIR STRIKE CALLED BASHAR AL-ASSAD'S BLUFF & REVEALED HIS REGIME'S STRATEGIC WEAKNESS -- WHAT BASHAR'S COVERT FLIRTATION WITH NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY SUGGESTS -- THE CONTINUING NEGATIVE DYNAMIC BETWEEN SYRIA & ISRAEL -- ACCUMULATING TENSION, MILITARY PREPARATIONS, & FORECASTS OF WAR

ANTI-REGIME IRANIANS & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY:  WHY THE U.S.A. SHOULD CONTINUE TO PROTECT THE MUJAHEDEEN-E KHALQ & ITS MEMBERS -- AMERICA'S NEED FOR ALLIES IN ITS CONFLICT WITH THE ISLAMIST REGIME IN IRAN -- THE OBLIGATION OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO STICK BY & PROTECT SUCH ALLIES

THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- THE FLAWED ANALYSIS OF JUAN COLE:  EXCUSING THE VIOLENCE & HATRED DIRECTED AT JEWS & THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- CITING & TAKING AT FACE VALUE LEFTIST, ISLAMIST, & ANTI-SEMITIC SOURCES -- EMBRACING & ATTEMPTING TO PEDDLE CONSPIRACY THEORIES DIRECTED AT THE U.S.A. IN GENERAL & THE POLITICAL RIGHT IN PARTICULAR -- CONCLUSIONS CHARACTERIZED BY OVERT BIASES & DERIVED FROM A HIGHLY SELECTIVE READING OF SOURCES -- COMMENTARY REFLECTING AN EAGERNESS TO BELIEVE THE PRESS OF HOSTILE FOREIGN DICTATORSHIPS, RATHER THAN U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT ACCOUNTS & REPORTS

ISLAM, SECULARISM, & TURKISH POLITICS:  THE POLITICAL CONFLICT BETWEEN ISLAM & SECULARISM IN TURKEY -- WHICH OF THE TWO CONTENDING FORCES IS MORE DEMOCRATIC?  WHICH OF THE TWO IS MORE AUTOCRATIC?  IS THE POLITICAL REGIME OF TURKISH PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, OR DOES IT CONSTITUTE THE INITIAL STEPS TOWARD ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ANTI-WESTERN, ISLAMIST DICTATORSHIP IN TURKEY?  ERDOGAN'S JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY AS AN AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMIG APPARATUS LACKING A POLITICAL CULTURE SUPPORTIVE OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC IDEALS & PRACTICES

EFFORTS TO ACHIEVE BALANCE & OBJECTIVITY IN THE EXAMINATION & ANALYSIS OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD:   SEEKING LESS POLITICIZATION, GREATER DIVERSITY OF PERSPECTIVE, MORE ATTENTION TO THE THREAT OF MILITANT ISLAM, & AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE POST-COLONIALIST & ANTI-WESTERN BIASES CHARACTERISTIC OF THE PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP & SOCALLED "SCHOLARSHIP" LONG DOMINANT IN THE FIELD OF MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC STUDIES -- THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA:  FORMED TO PROVIDE A PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION THAT WOULD BE MORE INDEPENDENT & REFLECT THE ACADEMIC COMMUNITY MORE THAN POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES & SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

THE RAPIDLY GROWING ALLIANCE BETWEEN ISLAMISTS & WESTERN LEFTISTS:  THE BURGEONING ALLIANCE AS ONE OF TODAY'S MOST DISTURBING POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS, ONE THAT IMPEDES THE WEST'S EFFORTS TO PROTECT ITSELF, ONE THAT MUST BE EXPOSED, REJECTED, RESISTED, & DEFEATED

THE TRUE MEANING OF THE OF THE ARABIC WORD "HUDNA" & ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN THE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  THE NEED FOR WESTERNERS TO UNDERSTAND THE WORD'S NUANCE & HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT -- ISLAMIC MILITARY HISTORY AS PRECEDENT FOR THE ISLAMISTS' USE OF THE CEASE-FIRE, OR TRUCE, AS A MILITARY TACTIC IN THEIR GLOBAL WAR AGAINST ISRAEL & THE WEST -- THE HUDNA AS A TACTICAL CEASE-FIRE PERMITTING THE AGGRESSOR FORCES TO RETREAT & THEN REGROUP, REARM, & REBUILD THEIR MILITARY INFRASTRUCTURE IN ORDER TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE WHEN THEY CALL OFF THE CEASE-FIRE & ATTACK THE TERRITORY THEY PREVIOUSLY LEFT BEHIND -- THE ARABS' USE OF THE HUDNA IN THEIR CONFLICT WITH THE STATE OF ISRAEL

THE REBIRTH OF SECULAR GOVERNMENT & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN TURKEY: CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE TO ILLEGAL ACTIONS TAKEN BY PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN & HIS JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY, A CASE TO BE DECIDED BY THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF TURKEY -- EXPECTED OUTCOME OF THE CASE:   THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT WILL RULE THAT THE PRIME MINISTER & THE AKP VIOLATED THE PRINCIPLES OF A DEMOCRATIC & SECULAR REPUBLIC WHICH UNDERGIRD THE TURKISH CONSTITUTION -- THE HIGH COURT WILL DISSOLVE THE AKP & BAN ERDOGAN & HIS CLOSEST AIDES FROM HOLDING GOVERNMENT OFFICE FOR A PERIOD OF AT LEAST FIVE YEARS

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  DE-EMPHASIZING PROMOTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & ONCE AGAIN EMBRACING MIDDLE EASTERN REGIONAL STABILITY AS A U.S. FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITY -- FACING THE DOWNSIDE OF A STRATEGY BASED ON THE IDEA THAT DICTATORS BRING STABILITY TO A REGION -- INSTABILITY AS A LOOMING THREAT IN FOUR WESTERN-ALLIED DICTATORSHIPS THAT MANY AT HIGH LEVELS IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PERCEIVE AS BULWARKS OF STABILITY:  EGYPT, SAUDI ARABIA, TUNISIA, & OMAN

INDUCING THE IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME TO TERMINATE ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM:  THE NEED FOR A BASIC SHIFT IN U.S. MILITARY & DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY

PARLIAMENTARY CONSIDERATION OF A LAW TO GOVERN PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS IN IRAQ:  PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE OVER HOW IRAQIS SHOULD ELECT THEIR PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS:  GEOGRAPHIC CONSTITUENY-BASED ELECTIONS, OR A PARTY-SLATE ELECTION SYSTEM IN EACH PROVINCE?  EFFECTIVE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT, POLITICAL STABILITY, THE RULE OF LAW, & INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY UNDER LAW WILL VERY MUCH DEPEND ON WHAT PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS LAW THE IRAQI PARLIAMENT DECIDES TO PASS

TURKEY'S JUDICIARY AS GUARDIAN OF THE TURKISH CONSTITUTION:  DECISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT PROTECTING TURKEY'S SECULAR & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC AGAINST THE INROADS OF ISLAMISM & AUTHORITARIANISM -- UPHOLDING HUMAN RIGHTS & THE RULE OF LAW IN TURKEY & CURBING THE DICTATORIAL TENDENCIES OF PRIME MINISTER RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN & THE ISLAMIC-ROOTED JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY -- WHY ERDOGAN & THE AKP SHOULD HAVE NEITHER AMERICAN NOR EUROPEAN SUPPORT FOR THEIR DICTATORIAL AMBITIONS

THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION & ISSUES OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY REGARDING THE STATE OF ISRAEL & THE MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICT:  THE DIFFERING APPROACHES OF JOHN MCCAIN & BARAK OBAMA

THE HADITH PROJECT:  THE TURKISH GOVERNMENT'S ATTEMPT TO EFFECT A BOLD RE-INTERPRETATION OF ISLAM & SEPARATE ITS ORIGINAL THEOLOGY FROM THE ACCRETIONS OF FOURTEEN CENTURIES -- THE DANGER THAT THE PROJECT MAY, BY LIMITING ITS SUBJECT MATTER & AVOIDING SUCH IMPORTANT ISSUES AS THE HEADSCARF, FEMALE LEGAL RIGHTS, MUSLIM WOMEN MARRYING NON-MUSLIM MEN, RIBBA, JIHAD, THE RIGHTS OF NON-MUSLIMS & THE CREATION OF AN ISLAMIC POLITICAL & SOCIAL ORDER, PROMOTE ISLAMISM MORE THAN MODERNIZE ISLAM

THE UNITED NATIONS RELIEF & WORKS AGENCY & ITS INVOLVEMENT IN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  UNRWA AS FACILITATOR, INSTIGATOR, & PROMOTER OF PALESTINIAN ARAB TERRORISM -- UNRWA AS A MAJOR CAUSE & PERPETUATOR OF THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, INCITING A WHOLE GENERATION OF PALESTINIANS TO TERRORIST VIOLENCE AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- THE POLITICAL & MILITARY ALLIANCE BETWEEN UNRWA & HAMAS -- HOW TO END THE THREAT:  DISSOLVE UNRWA & TRANSFER ITS FUNCTIONS & FUNDING TO OTHER, LESS POLITICIZED AGENCIES

FICTIONAL WORKS THAT EXPLORE THE INTERSECTION OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES & INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE:   THREE NOVELS AUTHORED BY DANIEL SILVA -- PRINCE OF FIRE -- THE MESSENGER -- THE SECRET SERVANT

THE EFFORTS OF ABDUL RAHMAN AL-LAHIM TO REFORM SAUDI LAW & THE SAUDI JUDICIAL SYSTEM:  HIS BATTLE WITH THE ISLAMIST FORCES THAT CONTROL SAUDI ARABIA'S JUDICIARY -- THE LONG ROAD TO A CONSTITUTIONAL JUDICIAL SYSTEM IN SAUDI ARABIA -- LAHIM'S UNCERTAIN FUTURE AS A SAUDI LAWYER

ISRAEL, THE MIDDLE EAST, & THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT:  SERIOUS LESSONS TO BE DRAWN FROM THIS SIXTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- SERIOUS THREATS TO ISRAEL'S EXISTENCE ON THE NEAR HORIZON -- THE FAILURE OF ISLAM & THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- THE SUCCESS OF JUDAISM & CHRISTIANITY

THE CURSE UNDER WHICH THE STATE OF ISRAEL LIVES:  THE CONSTANT THREAT OF DESTRUCTION -- ISRAEL'S REMARKABLE PROGRESS OVER THE PAST SIX DECADES HAS NOT LIBERATED IT FROM A MULTI-PRONGED PERIL THAT INCLUDES NEARLY EVERY MEANS IMAGINABLE:  WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, CONVENTIONAL MILITARY ATTACK, TERRORISM, INTERNAL SUBVERSION, ECONOMIC BLOCKADE, DEMOGRAPHIC ASSAULT, & IDEOLOGICAL UNDERMINNING -- THE ERROR OF SEEING THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT AS THE MOTOR FORCE BEHIND THE PROBLEMS CONFRONTING ISRAEL -- THE MORE RATIONAL PERCEPTION:  SEEING ISRAEL'S PLIGHT AS THE RESULT OF ITS LOCATION IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST & THE TOXIC POLITICS OF THAT REGION

THE SINGLE GREATEST DANGER TO INTERNATIONAL PEACE & SECURITY:  IRAN'S ADVANCE TOWARD NUCLEAR MILITARY CAPABILITY -- THE LIMITS OF A U.S. FOREIGN POLICY OF RELIANCE ON INSPECTIONS & NEGOTIATIONS AS THE PRIMARY OR EXCLUSIVE MEANS TO DEAL WITH AN IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME BENT ON ACQUIRING A NUCLEAR MILITARY CAPABILITY -- WHAT THE NEXT U.S. PRESIDENT MUST KNOW ABOUT IRAN, THE IRANIAN REGIME, ITS ANTI-WESTERN IDEOLOGY, & ITS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS -- THE IGNORANCE & INEXPERIENCE OF PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDER BARAK OBAMA

THE POLITICAL FUTURE OF TURKEY:  CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY, OR AUTHORITARIAN DICTATORSHIP?   THE RULE OF LAW & SEPARATION OF GOVERNMENT & RELIGION, OR ISLAMIST THEOCRACY & TYRANNY?  THE GOVERNING ELITE & ITS SUPPORTERS LEGALLY ACCOUNTABLE, OR ABOVE THE LAW?  LEGISLATIVE & EXECUTIVE SUPREMACY, OR RESPECT FOR THE JUCICIAL PROCESS?

THE WORK OF THE SOCALLED "NEW HISTORIANS" -- THEIR REVISION & DISTORTION OF ISRAELI HISTORY -- THE FULL STORY:   ISRAELI ACADEMICS & WESTERN REVISIONISTS EXAMINING ISRAEL'S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE FROM AN ARAB PERSPECTIVE IN WHICH JEWS WERE THE AGGRESSORS & ARABS WERE THE VICTIMS -- ILAN PAPPE'S PROMOTING REVISIONIST ARGUMENTS THAT PLACE EXCLUSIVE BLAME ON EARLY ZIONISTS FOR VICTIMIZING ARABS & DESTROYING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEACE & RECONCILIATION -- PAPPE'S CLAIM THAT THE ZIONISTS MADE SPECIAL PREPARATIONS FOR ETHNIC CLEANSING OF ARABS FROM PALESTINE -- MANIPULATING EVIDENCE TO FIT AN IMPLAUSIBLE THESIS -- IGNORING THE REALITIES OF THE TIME -- DISREGARD FOR THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE HISTORIAN -- INDIFFERENCE TO STANDARDS OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

RELIGION, POLITICS, & GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS -- ISLAM, AUTHORITARIANISM, & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  CAN ISLAM BE REFORMED IN SUCH MANNER AS TO BE MADE COMPATIBLE WITH CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY?  ISLAM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO EVOLVE IN A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC DIRECTION, BUT MIDDLE EASTERN TRIBALISM & THE EXISTENCE OF A COMPELLING & POWERFUL ISLAMIST MOVEMENT OBSTRUCT MODERNIZATION & THE DEVELOPMENT OF CONSTITUTIONALISM, THE RULE OF LAW, CITIZENSHIP, CIVIL LIBERTIES, SEPARATION OF GOVERNMENT & RELIGION, EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS, GENDER EQUALITY, & THE OTHER PREQUISITES OF A GENUINELY CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC STATE

THE RULING REGIME & GULEN MOVEMENT IN TURKEY:  THEIR USE OF FABIAN TACTICS TO UNDERMINE TURKISH CONSTITUTIONALISM & SECULARISM & BRING ABOUT AN ISLAMIST REVOLUTION IN TURKEY -- THREAT TO U.S. FOREIGN POLICY & NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- INABILITY OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO EFFECTIVELY PROTECT AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE REGION, DUE TO THE INCOMPETENCE OF POLITICAL APPOINTEES & CAREER BUREAUCRATS IN THE U.S. FOREIGN POLICY APPARATUS

OPTIMISM VERSUS REALISM IN U.S. FOREIGN POLICY:  DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERS' DISMISSAL OF REALISM & THEIR ADOPTION OF THE MOST OPTIMISTIC ASSESSMENTS OF AMERICA'S ADVERSARIES IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- THE GREAT DANGER OF BIUILDING U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY ON THE ASSUMPTION OF AN ADVERSARY'S SINCERITY & GOOD WILL -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. TO PREPARE FOR THE WORST & CONDUCT BOTH DIPLOMACY & MILITARY PLANNING SIMULTANEOUSLY -- HOW THE DEMOCRATS CONFLATE FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS WITH ADVOCACY & LIBERAL IDEOLOGY, SHORTCHANGE MILITARY PREPARATIONS, & UNDERMINE CONTAINMENT & DETERRENCE OF U.S. ENEMIES

U.S. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY, INFORMATION DISSEMINATION, & INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC RELATIONS:  COUNTERING ANTI-AMERICAN PROPAGANDA IN THE ARAB MEDIA -- AL-HURRA (THE FREE ONE):  A U.S. GOVERNMENT FUNDED ARABIC LANGUAGE SATELLITE TELEVISION NETWORK WHOSE MISSION BY LAW IS TO PROVIDE ACCURATE & OBJECTIVE NEWS & INFORMATION TO THE MIDDLE EAST, ACCURATELY REPORTING U.S. POLICY & POLICY DEBATES, BUT NOT ADVOCATING POLICY -- PROVIDING CONTEXT & ANALYSIS SO THAT MIDDLE EASTERN VIEWERS CAN MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS

THE CONFLICT IN LEBANON:  IRAN, SYRIA, & HEZBOLLAH VERSUS THE WEST -- LEBANON AS A KEY BATTLEGROUND BETWEEN THE WEST AS A WHOLE & THE FORCES THAT SEEK TO DRAG THE MIDDLE EAST DOWN INTO FANATICISM, TYRANNY, & BARBARISM -- LEBANON AS THE FOCAL POINT OF THE ANTI-WESTERN STRATEGY OF IRAN & ITS ALLIES, SYRIA & HEZBOLLAH -- THE TRANSFORMATION OF IRANIAN POLITICS THAT IS BEING PLAYED OUT IN LEBANON & GAZA -- IRAN'S PLAN TO CO-OPT ARAB NATIONALISM, HAVE AN ACTIVE WAR WITH ISRAEL, BE VICTORIOUS IN THAT WAR, & SEIZE LEADERSHIP OF THE MUSLIM WORLD FROM THE SUNNIS & ARABS

THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT & THE LITERATURE OF ZIONISM:  THE ORIGINS & USES OF THE PHRASE DESCRIBING PALESTINE AS "A LAND WITHOUT A PEOPLE FOR A PEOPLE WITHOUT A LAND" -- THE ANTI-ZIONISTS' ATTACK ON THE PHRASE -- WAS THE PHRASE REALLY A ZIONIST SLOGAN?  WAS PALESTINE REALLY A LAND WITHOUT A PEOPLE?  JEWISH NATIONALISM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE HISTORY & CULTURE OF THE WEST DURING THE NINETEENTH & EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES

THE STATE OF ISRAEL & PALESTINIAN ARAB HISTORIOGRAPHY:  PALESTINIAN PERCEPTION OF THE JEWISH STATE AS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL -- PALESTINIAN PERCEPTIONS, THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE PROBLEM, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- THE PALESTINIANS, INSTEAD OF SEARCHING FOR PATHS TO PEACE, ARE SEARCHING FOR MEANS TO WAGE WAR AGAINST & DESTROY THE STATE OF ISRAEL

AL-QA'IDA -- THE DEBATE OVER THE NATURE OF ITS ORGANIZATION & LEADERSHIP: CENTRALIZED OR DECENTRALIZED -- WHEN IS A TERRORIST NETWORK CENTRALIZED? HOW CENTRALIZED IS AL-QA'IDA?   THE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF CENTRALIZATION -- REGROUPING & RELOCATION OF AL-QA'IDA'S SENIOR LEADERSHIP AFTER 9-11 -- HOW THE SENIOR LEADERSHIP REGAINED ITS STRENGTH AFTER LOSING AFGHANISTAN -- AL-QA'IDA AS THE MOST DANGEROUS TERRORIST ADVERSARY THAT AMERICA FACES, A TERRORIST NETWORK POSSESSING A LETHAL COMBINATION CAPABILITY & THE WILL TO CARRY OUT MASS-CASUALTY ATTACKS INSIDE THE U.S.A.

ARABS & WESTERNERS:  THE VAST CULTURAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ARABS & WESTERNERS -- ARAB CULTURE:  THE ENDEMIC HATRED OF JEWS THAT REFLECTS THE MUSLIM ARAB MINDSET -- THE FAILURE OF ARABS TO EXIST PEACEFULLY WITH ONE ANOTHER, DUE TO THEOLOGICAL SCHISMS -- THE ARABS' FAMILY & TRIBAL MENTALITY -- THE ANTI-WESTERN ATTITUDES OF ARABS THAT LITERALLY DATE BACK TO THE CRUSADES -- ISLAM AS AN AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM, EXISTING TO ASSERT ABSOLUTE & TYRANNICAL CONTROL OVER TERRITORY & PEOPLES --THE CONFLUENCE OF OIL & RELIGION, MAKING THE ISLAMIC WORLD A TREACHEROUS PLACE, BUT ONE WHERE THE WEST HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO INTERVENE & EVEN IMPOSE ITS WILL BY FORCE OF ARMS

PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM & MILITANT ISLAM:  THE EXTENT TO WHICH PALESTINIAN NATIONALISM NOW INTERTWINES WITH ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY -- FATAH'S FUSION OF PALESTINIAN NATIONAL & ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS IN ORDER TO USE RADICAL ISLAM AS AN INSTRUMENT OF MOBILIZATION -- THE ISLAMIZATION OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE FOR PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD & THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL

IRAN, AFRICA, & LATIN AMERICA:  THE IRANIAN REGIME'S PURSUIT OF A COORDINATED DIPLOMATIC, ECONOMIC, & MILITARY STRATEGY TO EXPAND ITS INFLUENCE IN AFRICA & LATIN AMERICA -- IRAN'S SUCCESS IN VENEZUELA, NICARAGUA, BOLIVIA, SENEGAL, ZIMBABWE, & SOUTH AFRICA -- CHALLENGING U.S. NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE AFRICAN & LATIN AMERICAN REGIONS -- CHALLENGING THE MONROE DOCTRINE IN LATIN AMERICA -- AFRICA AS IRAN'S NEXT FRONTIER -- THE DAMAGE THAT CAN BE DONE BY AHMADINEJAD'S OUTREACH STRATEGY -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. TO DESIGN & IMPLEMENT A STRATEGY TO REVERSE AHMADINEJAD'S RECENT GAINS IN PURSUIT OF HIS GLOBAL STRATEGY TO UNDERMINE AMERICA & THE WEST

THE FAULTY ANALYSIS OF POLITICALLY-BIASED AMERICAN PROFESSORS OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES:  ANTI-ISRAELI PROFESSORS' OCCUPATION WITH LAMBASTING ISRAEL'S DEFENSE POLICIES & THEIR CONSEQUENT FAILURE TO IDENTIFY AN APPROACHING INTERNECINE PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- HOW THE MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PROFESSORS MISINFORM & MISLEAD FOREIGN POLICY DECISION-MAKERS IN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT

THE ISLAMIST THREAT:  THE CLOSE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ISLAMISM & FASCISM -- THE WILL OF THE ISLAMISTS TO EXTERMINATE THE JEWS -- ISLAMIST DETERMINATION TO CONQUER THE WEST, SUBJUGATE CHRISTIANS, & EXTINGUISH POLITICAL OPPONENTS -- ISLAMISM VERSUS MODERATE ISLAM -- IRAN, ISRAEL, & THE WEST -- THE NEED TO FIGHT THE ISLAMISTS POLITICALLY, IDEOLOGICALLY, & MILITARILY

THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- A DEBATE:  THE ISRAELI POSITION VERSUS THE PALESTINIAN ARAB POSITION -- A DEBATE BETWEEN DAVID MEIR-LEVY & HATEM BAZIAN -- A DEBATE BETWEEN AN ISRAELI ACADEMIC & A PALESTINIAN RADICAL PROPAGANDIST

ISLAM, ISLAMIC STATES, ISLAMISM, & THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DIMENSION OF ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE:   ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE IN THE CONTEXT OF STRATEGIES WEAK STATES & TERRORIST GROUPS ADOPT TO CONFRONT STRONGER MILITARY POWERS -- THE ISLAMIST WAY OF WAR & THE KILLING OF CIVILIANS -- RELIGIOUS FANATICISM, SUICIDAL IDEOLOGY, & MORAL INSPIRATION FOR THE STRATEGY OF TERRORISM -- PSYCHOLOGICAL MANIPULATION & THE CALL TO JIHAD -- EXPLOITATION OF WESTERN MORAL CODES TO CREATE A TACTICAL ADVANTAGE FOR THE ISLAMIST ENEMY -- HOW TO BALANCE WESTERN MILITARY NEEDS, INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW, & THE REALITY OF FACING AN ENEMY WHOSE TACTICS ARE NOT RESTRAINED BY ACCEPTED CONVENTIONS -- THE ABSOLUTE NEED FOR THE WEST TO WIN THE IDEOLOGICAL WAR AS WELL AS THE MILITARY ONE

BURGEONING OIL PRICES, PERSIAN GULF STATES, & SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS:  HOW PERSIAN GULF STATES ARE USING THEIR HUGE OIL PROFITS & SURPLUS FOREIGN EXHANGE TO PURCHASE ASSETS IN THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES -- THE NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF ARAB STATES ACQUIRING IMPORTANT POSITIONS IN INDUSTRIAL & OTHER BUSINESS CORPORATIONS IN THE WEST -- A POSSIBLE RESPONSE TO THE PROBLEM BY WESTERN STATES -- INTRODUCTION OF A STRICT POLICY OF REVIEWING LARGE AQUISITIONS BY SWFS, A POLICY DESIGNED TO MAKE IT EXTREMELY DIFFICULT, OR EVEN ILLEGAL, FOR SWFS TO ACQUIRE ASSETS IN STRATEGIC SECTORS OF WESTERN ECONOMIES, FOR EXAMPLE, INFRASTRUCTURE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, MEDIA, & ENERGY

WHITEWASHING IRAN'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM:  THE WORK OF MOHAMED ELBARADEI AS DIRECTOR GENERAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY -- ELBARADEI AS A STRONGLY BIASED POLITICAL FIGURE, ONE ANIMATED BY ANTIPATHY FOR ISRAEL & THE WEST & ON WHAT HAS INCREASINGLY BECOME A SINGLE-MINDED CRUSADE TO RESCUE IRANIAN & OTHER FAVORED REGIMES FROM CHARGES OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROLIFERATION -- ELBARADEI'S SELF-IMPOSED MISSION TO HAMSTRUNG EFFORTS OF THE U.S.A. TO CONSTRAIN IRAN'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM

THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN "PEACE PROCESS"?  FAILURE OF GAZA & THE WEST BANK TO DEVELOP INTO A VIABLE PALESTINIAN POLITICAL & ECONOMIC ENTITY -- THE ROLE OF YASSER ARAFAT IN CREATING THE CURRENT MESS IN PALESTINIAN SOCIETY -- THE ROLE OF MAHMOUD ABBAS -- THE ROLE OF HAMAS -- VICTIMHOOD & THE FAILURE TO ACHIEVE A TWO-STATE SOLUTION TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

THE "POLITICALLY CORRECT" PHILOSOPHY OF MULTICULTURALISM:  ANOTHER NAME FOR WESTERN DEMORALIZATION & ONE OF THE GREATEST DIFFICULTIES IN THE WEST'S CONFRONTATION WITH ISLAM DURING THE PAST DECADE -- FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE THE TRUE NATURE OF ISLAM & THE VIOLENCE THAT IS INHERENT IN ISLAMIC CULTURE -- FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE THE TRUE NATURE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, & THE GREAT GOOD THAT IS INHERENT IN WESTERN CULTURE -- WESTERN MULTICULTURALISTS' INABILITY OR UNWILLINGNESS TO COMPREHEND THE REAL RELATION OF ISLAM & ISLAMIC CULTURE TO JIHADISM & TERRORISM -- THE PSYCHOLOGICAL DENIAL & BLINDNESS OF WESTERN ELITES REGARDING THE SERIOUS THREAT THAT THE ISLAMIC CHALLENGE POSES TO OUR WAY OF LIFE IN THE WEST

THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY & ITS AGENDA POLITICS:  HOW & WHY THE CIA FREQUENTLY WORKS AT CROSS PURPOSES WITH THE PRESIDENCY -- HOW CIA BUREAUCRATS ENDEAVOR TO UNDERMINE THE CREDIBILITY OF A PRESIDENT WITH WHOM THE THEY DISAGREE OVER ISSUES OF AMERICAN FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY -- THE CIA'S INVOLVEMENT IN MAJOR POLICY INITIATIVES, WITHOUT COORDINATION WITH THE PRESIDENT, U.S. DIPLOMATS, MILITARY OFFICIALS, OR PENTAGON CIVILIANS -- THE LEAK AS THE RECOURSE OF THE DIGRUNTLED, BORED, OR POLITICIZED INTELLIGENCE ANALYST -- IRAN & IRAQ AS CASE STUDIES OF THE CIA'S AGENDA POLITICS -- THE CIA'S ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE THE OUTCOME OF THE 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, SEEKING THE DEFEAT OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH IN HIS REELECTION BID

JOHN L. ESPOSITO:  UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR, SPECIALIST IN ISLAMIC STUDIES, & APOLOGIST FOR ISLAMISM -- DISSEMINATING ISLAMIST PROPAGANDA -- DEFLECTING RESPONSIBILITY FOR ISLAMIC TERRORISM TO THE WEST, WHILE NEGATING THE NEED FOR SELF-REFLECTION AMONG MUSLIMS -- AIDING, ABETTING, & ADHERING TO AMERICA'S ISLAMIST ENEMIES

THE KEY TO UNDERSTANDING MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS & SOCIETY:  COMPREHENDING THE TRIBAL FOUNDATION OF ARAB & IRANIAN CULTURE -- THE ANCIENT TRIBAL NOTION OF KINSHIP SUPERCEDING THE INFLUENCE OF ELECTED GOVERNMENT OFFICERS -- TRIBAL GROUP LOYALTY AS CRITICAL TO THE CULTURE -- NO LEGITIMATE LEADERSHIP EXISTING ABOVE THE HIERARCHY OF TRIBAL LEADERS -- UNWILLINGNESS TO ACCEPT STATE RULERS -- NEAR IMPOSSIBILITY OF HAVING A CONSTITUTION OR A REGIME OF LAW & ORDER, GENERATING A SOCIETY WHERE ALL GROUPS ARE ON AN EQUAL BASIS

AIDING & ABETTING ENEMIES OF THE U.S.A. DURING TIME OF WAR:  THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENTS OF STATE & DEFENSE EMPLOYING ADHERENTS OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY, BILLING THEM AS SPECIALISTS IN MIDDLE EAST STUDIES, & ENTRUSTING THEM WITH HUGE SUMS OF MONEY TO BRING SAUDIS AND EGYPTIANS TO AMERICA TO DISSEMINATE ISLAMIST PROPAGANDA -- TWO U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES ENTRUSTED WITH PROTECTING AMERICA FROM ISLAMISTS ARE, IN FACT, HIRING & EMPOWERING THEM

U.S. & WESTERN POLICY TOWARD GAZA, EGYPT, & ISRAEL:  TRANSFERRING GAZA TO EGYPTIAN JURISDICTION & RESPONSIBILITY -- HOW CAN IT BE DONE?

HIGH TIME FOR A MAJOR CHANGE IN THE WEST'S POLICY TOWARD GAZA:  THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN STATES TO DECLARE THE EXPERIMENT IN GAZAN SELF-RULE A FAILURE, WITHDRAW SUPPORT FOR ANY POLITICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE GAZA STRIP & THE PALESTINIAN ARAB WEST BANK, & CONTRIVE THE RETURN OF GAZA TO EGYPT, PRESSURING THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT TO ANNEX, TIGHTLY CONTROL, & TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR GAZA

WHY IS THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST SO AT ODDS WITH MODERN LIFE, LAGGARD IN EVERYTHING FROM LITERACY TO STANDARD OF LIVING, FROM MILITARY PROWESS TO POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT?  CULTURE & CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- TRIBAL AUTONOMY & TYRANNICAL CENTRALISM AS THE TWO PATTERNS OF RULE THAT HISTORICALLY HAVE DOMINATED THE MIDDLE EAST -- BALANCED OPPOSITION AS THE BASIS OF TRIBAL SELF-RULE -- RELYING ON EXTENDED FAMILIES & AGNATES FOR PROTECTION -- THE NEGATIVE & POSITIVE EFFECTS OF AFFILIATION SOLIDARITY -- HOW THE DUAL PATTERN OF TRIBAL SELF-RULE & TYRANNICAL CENTRALISM CONTINUES TO DEFINE LIFE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- INDIVIDUALISM AS THE CURE FOR THE MIDDLE EASTERN REGION'S AFFLICTION

IRAQ & THE U.S.A.:  SHOULD ANY PROPOSED U.S. SECURITY COMMITMENT TO IRAQ CONSTITUTE A TREATY BETWEEN IRAQ & THE U.S.A., REQUIRING RATIFICATION BY A TWO-THIRDS VOTE IN THE U.S. SENATE?  THE ANSWER DEPENDS UPON THE CONTENTS OF THE AGREEMENT.  ANY LANGUAGE COMMITTING U.S. MILITARY FORCES TO DEFEND IRAQ AGAINST AN EXTERNAL THREAT WOULD TRANSFORM THE AGREEMENT INTO A TREATY, SUBJECT TO U.S. SENATE RATIFICATION

ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY VERSUS AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE:  INCOMPATIBILITY BETWEEN THE IDEOLOGY OF MILITANT ISLAM & THE NATURAL RIGHTS PHILOSOPHY ARTICULATED DURING THE EUROPEAN ENLIGHTENMENT & INCORPORATED INTO AMERICAN POLITICAL CULTURE -- THE ROOTS OF ISLAMIC JIHADISM & ITS OPPOSITION TO THE U.S.A. AS PART OF THE NON-MUSLIM WEST, KEY VARIABLES IN THE LONG HISTORY OF INTERACTION BETWEEN THE U.S.A. & MUSLIM SOCIETIES, DATING BACK TO AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE -- WHY ARAB & OTHER ISLAMIC STATES HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO IMPROVE THE CONDITIONS OF THEIR POPULATIONS, ESPECIALLY IN CONTRAST TO THE SUCCESS OF THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN SOCIETIES -- DEVISING A GRAND STRATEGY TO REALISTICALLY ADDRESS THE BASIC CONFLICT OF INTEREST BETWEEN THE AMERICAN NATION & THE FORCES OF ISLAMISM

THE BUSH PRESIDENCY, ISLAM, & THE MIDDLE EAST:  PROVISIONAL ASSESSMENTS OF THE POLICIES OF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH TOWARD THE ISLAMIC WORLD -- THE PRESIDENT'S APPROACH TO MILITANT ISLAM & TERRORISM -- HIS WILLINGNESS TO WAGE PRE-EMPTIVE WAR -- HIS APPROACH TO THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- PROMOTING REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- VISION CONTRASTED WITH IMPLEMENTATION

BIASED & UNRELIABLE ACADEMICS, NEWS MEDIA POLITICAL BIAS, & POLITICALLY SLANTED ACCOUNTS OF EVENTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE BALEFUL CONSEQUENCES OF THE MEDIA'S RELIANCE ON JUAN COLE & OTHER MIDDLE EAST STUDIES UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS OF HIS ILK TO EXPLAIN THE MIDDLE EAST TO AMERICANS:  ENABLING WIDE DISSEMINATION OF A DISTORTED & INACCURATE PICTURE OF THE MIDDLE EAST & OF UNITED STATES INVOLVEMENT IN THE HIGHLY VOLATILE REGION

IDEOLOGY, RELIGION, & ISLAMIST TERRORISM:  HOW ISLAMIST AGENDA TERRORISM DIFFERS FROM SECULAR AGENDA TERRORISM -- HOW ISLAMIST TERROR TACTICS DIFFER FROM SECULAR TERROR TACTICS -- SUICIDE BOMBING AS THE MAJOR ISLAMIST TERROR TACTIC -- THE ORIGIN & MOTIVATION OF RELIGIOUSLY JUSTIFIED TERRORISM -- ISLAMISM & ITS DEEP IDEOLOGICAL COMMITMENT TO A NEW WORLD ORDER

THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, THE PALESTINIAN RIGHT OF RETURN, & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY:  BUSH ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT FOR THE CONCEPT OF THE PALESTINIAN ARABS' "RIGHT OF RETURN" TO THE FORMER BRITISH MANDATE OF PALESTINE, THAT IS, THE BELIEF THAT PALESTINIAN REFUGEES & THEIR DESCENDANTS HAVE A RIGHT TO RETURN TO THE HOMES THEIR FAMILIES POSSESSED & LEFT PRIOR TO, DURING, OR DUE TO THE 1948 ARAB-ISRAELI WAR -- THE PALESTINIAN "RIGHT OF RETURN" PERCEIVED BY THE ISRAELIS AS A CODE PHRASE TO OVERWHELM ISRAEL DEMOGRAPHICALLY, THEREBY UNDOING ZIONISM & THE JEWISH STATE

THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST:  ENSURING ISRAEL'S SURVIVAL AS A JEWISH SOCIETY & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC NATION-STATE IN A HOSTILE REGIONAL ENVIRONMENT -- THE U.S.A. ASSISTING ISRAEL IN ITS MAINTENANCE OF QUALITATIVE MILITARY SUPERIORITY OVER ANY POSSIBLE COALITION OF ARAB & OTHER ISLAMIC STATES IN THE MIDDLE EASTERN & PERSIAN GULF REGION -- THE IRANIAN THREAT, THE EMERGING NEW STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST, & THE NEED FOR A CLEARER DEFINITION OF "QUALITATIVE MILITARY EDGE" & MUTUAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE U.S. & ISRAELI GOVERNMENTS REGARDING HOW ISRAEL'S QUANTITATIVE MILITARY EDGE CAN & SHOULD BE MAINTAINED

IRAQI KURDISTAN & THE U.S.A.:  THE UNRELIABILITY OF THE IRAQI KURDS AS A U.S. ALLY -- OBSTACLES TO SUCH AN ALLIANCE:  UNSTABLE, CORRUPT, AUTHORITARIAN, & DOUBLE-DEALING POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN IRAQI KURDISTAN, THE CORROSIVE IDEOLOGIES OF ISLAMISM & EXTREME NATIONALISM, PKK TERRORISM, IRANIAN INFILTRATION; THE LONG-STANDING U.S.-TURKISH RELATIONSHIP; AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

AMERICA, INDIA, & IRAN:  INDIA CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE BETWEEN THE U.S.A. & THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN -- THE ESCALATING U.S.-IRANIAN DISPUTE, THE GROWING U.S.-INDIAN STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP, & THE INDO-IRANIAN RAPPROCHEMENT -- INDIA'S DRIVE FOR ENERGY SECURITY & ITS PETROLEUM IMPORTS FROM IRAN -- THE IMPACT OF THE ENERGY SECURITY DRIVE ON INDIAN POLICY TOWARD A NUCLEAR IRAN -- THE IMPACT OF U.S. PRESSURE ON THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT

PALESTINIANS VERSUS THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY:  THE NUMEROUS PALESTINIAN ARABS CURRENTLY LIVING INSIDE THE BORDERS OF ISRAEL WHO PREFER ISRAELI GOVERNANCE TO POLITICAL CONTROL & DOMINATION BY THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY -- PALESTINIANS WHO WANT TO KEEP OR GAIN ISRAELI CITIZENSHIP & WOULD RESIST ANY ATTEMPT TO TRANFER JURISDICTION OVER THEM FROM THE STATE OF ISRAEL TO THE CORRUPT, VIOLENT, AND UNSTABLE REGIME OF MAHMOUD ABBAS, AL-FATAH, & HAMAS -- THE ADVANTAGES & BENEFITS OF ISRAELI GOVERNANCE PERCEIVED BY MANY PALESTINIANS:  THE RULE OF LAW, EFFECTIVE MAINTENANCE OF LAW & ORDER, FAIR & REASONABLE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE UNDER LAW, OPPORTUNITY TO LIVE IN PEACE & RAISE ONE'S CHILDREN UNDER ORDERLY CONDITIONS, GOOD SCHOOLS, & HEALTH INSURANCE

THE PALESTINIAN ECONOMY & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  THE EFFECTS & CONSEQUENCES OF WESTERN FINANCIAL AID TO THE PALESTINIANS -- CORRUPTION & DISTORTION OF THE PALESTINIAN ECONOMY -- RUINING THE ECONOMY BY SMOTHERING IT UNDER WELL-INTENTIONED BUT MISGUIDED DONATIONS -- HOW A FAILED PALESTINIAN ECONOMY WILL ULTIMATELY AFFECT PALESTINIAN TERRORISM & DETERMINATION TO DESTROY THE STATE OF ISRAEL -- EXPLAINING PALESTINIAN EXTREMISM & VIOLENCE: THE HARDSHIP MODEL VERSUS THE EXHILARATION MODEL

SYRIA, THE U.S.A., & THE MIDDLE EAST:  BASHAR AL-ASSAD, THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME, & SYRIA'S FOREIGN POLICY GOALS -- THE MESSAGE THAT AL-ASSAD IS SENDING TO U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH & HIS ADMINISTRATION:  SYRIA IS NOT PREPARED TO ENTER INTO AN AXIS WITH THE U.S.A. & THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT INSIST THAT SYRIA DO SO. IN EXCHANGE FOR FRIENDLY DIALOGUE BETWEEN SYRIA & THE U.S.A., THE LATTER MUST ABANDON IRAQ, LEAVE LEBANON OPEN TO SYRIAN DOMINATION, & AGREE TO THE RETURN OF THE GOLAN HEIGHTS TO SYRIA. IN SHORT, THE U.S.A. MUST CAPITULATE TO SYRIAN DEMANDS & LEAVE ISRAEL & THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST AT THE MERCY OF TYRANNICAL REGIMES & ISLAMIST TERRORISTS

SECURITY & STABILITY IN IRAQ:  THE MILITARY PRESENCE OF THE U.S.A. & ITS COALITION ALLIES IN IRAQ -- THE IRAQI GOVERNMENT'S REQUEST THAT THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL GRANT A ONE-YEAR EXTENSION OF THE UN MANDATE FOR THE UNITED STATES-LED MULTINATIONAL FORCES IN IRAQ -- THE DANGER OF AMERICAN POLITICIANS SECOND-GUESSING THE ELECTED IRAQI GOVERNMENT ON THIS MATTER -- THE DANGER OF THE U.S. CONGRESS ATTEMPTING TO MICROMANAGE THE IRAQI POLITICAL PROCESS -- WHAT WILL ULTIMATELY MAKE POSSIBLE A U.S. MILITARY DRAW DOWN IN IRAQ, WITHOUT JEOPARDIZING IRAQI SECURITY & STABILITY

TURKEY, KURDISH TERRORISTS, THE WAR ON TERRORISM, AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS, & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE & ITS ILL-ADVISED DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY TOWARD THE PKK, A STRATEGY THAT WILL LIKELY BACKFIRE ON TURKEY & COULD SERVE TO UNDERMINE WHAT IS LEFT OF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH'S GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM -- THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT'S COUNSELING TURKEY TO OFFER POLITICAL CONCESSIONS TO THE IRAQI KURDS AND THE PKK, RATHER THAN THE DEPARTMENT'S ADHERING TO A NO-TOLERANCE POLICY TOWARD TERRORISM -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S. FOREIGN POLICY ESTABLISHMENT TO RECOGNIZE THAT CONCESSIONS FUEL TERROR, THAT ONLY COERSION & FORCE WORK IN DEALING WITH TERRORISTS & TERROR ENABLERS, & THAT TURKEY, LIKE ANY OTHER COUNTRY, HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITS CITIZENS FROM TERRORISM

DANIEL LEVY'S DISTORTED CAUSE-&-EFFECT ANALYSIS OF THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT: LEVY'S TWISTED ACCOUNTS OF THE FIRST & SECOND INTIFADAS -- LEVY'S MOTIVE:  HIS VERSION OF THE HISTORY OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT WOULD HAVE US BELIEVE THAT PALESTINIAN TERRORISM HAS ALWAYS ARISEN IN RESPONSE TO ISRAELI PROVOCATIONS & THAT ISRAEL HAS NEVER BEEN GENUINELY INTERESTED IN PEACE WITH ITS MIDDLE EASTERN NEIGHBORS

THE TRIBAL & CULTURAL ROOTS OF CONFLICT IN THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST: HOW SEVENTH-CENTURY ARAB TRIBAL CULTURE HAS INFLUENCED ISLAM & ITS ADHERENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS NON-MUSLIMS -- FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ARABS' NEARLY ABSOLUTE REJECTION OF ISRAEL -- THE SPECIAL IMPORTANCE OF HONOR & BALANCED OPPOSITION -- THE PROPENSITY OF ARAB STATES & IRAN TO DICTATORSHIP -- RULERS, PEASANTS, & NOMADS

IRAN, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, & DIPLOMACY:  THE ERRONEOUS CONCLUSIONS THAT CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS ARE DRAWING FROM THE MOST RECENT U.S. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE -- WHAT THE LATEST NIE REALLY DEMONSTRATES:  HOW DANGEROUS & COSTLY DIPLOMACY CAN BE WHEN IT IS NOT REINFORCED BY STRONG SANCTIONS & THE CREDIBLE THREAT OF MILITARY FORCE -- THE ELABORATE DECEPTION PRACTICED BY THE IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME & ITS CONTINUED PURSUIT OF ITS NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM

SYRIA'S AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL REGIME & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY:  SYRIA'S DENIAL OF HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTIONS TO POLITICAL DISSIDENTS & REGIME CRITICS -- THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S WEAK REACTION TO THE ARREST & IMPRISONMENT OF SYRIAN PRO-REFORM POLITICAL ACTIVIST KAMAL AL-LABWANI -- FAILURE OF THE WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSLATE ITS DISPLEASURE INTO POLICY -- U.S. ACTION IN SUPPORT OF POLITICAL & FREE MARKET REFORMS & BASIC GUARANTEES OF CIVIL LIBERTIES IN SYRIA SPEAKS MUCH SOFTER THAN THE RHETORIC OF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH & SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA RICE

THE U.S.A., INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, & THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR THREAT:  PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH ON THE NEED TO DENY IRAN THE KNOWLEDGE NECESSARY TO MAKE A NUCLEAR BOMB -- MISPLACED CRITICISM OF THE PRESIDENT'S REMARKS BY LIBERALS, PARTISAN DEMOCRATS, & ULTRA-INTERNATIONALISTS -- UNDERSCORING THE SERIOUSNESS & RESOLVE OF THE U.S.A. & DAMPENING THE OVERCONFIDENCE OF IRAN'S ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME:  THE UTILITY & ADVANTAGE OF BUSH'S RHETORIC

PROPOSING THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM:  POLITICALLY WEAK, UNPOPULAR, & DESPERATE ISRAELI PRIME MINISTERS SEEKING TO ACHIEVE PEACE THROUGH THE APPEASEMENT OF THE PALESTINIAN ARABS -- REWARDING HAMAS & OTHER ISLAMIC TERRORIST GROUPS FOR THE TERROR WAR THEY ARE WAGING AGAINST ISRAEL -- ENDANGERING ISRAELI NATIONAL SECURITY -- THE ROAD TO "PEACE" THAT IS REALLY THE ROAD TO A GREATER WAR

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  FAILURE OF THE U.S.A. TO SECURE GENUINE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST VIA TRANSFORMATION OF GOVERNMENT'S IN THE REGION INTO CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES -- AMERICA IN SEARCH OF A DEFINITIVE MIDDLE EASTERN POLICY -- WHICH ROAD SHOULD THE U.S.A. TAKE?   APPEASEMENT, STAYING ON THE OFFENSIVE, OR NEITHER?

WESTERN FEMINISM, POLITICAL CORRECTNESS, & OTHER ACADEMIC THOUGHT DISORDERS:  THE DOUBLE STANDARD MAINTAINED IN COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WESTERN & ISLAMIST SOCIAL SYSTEMS -- CONDEMNING AS PATRIARCHAL WESTERN INSTITUTIONS OF MONOGAMOUS MARRIAGE, BIOLOGICAL MOTHERHOOD, HETEROSEXUALITY & RELIGION, WHILE VIEWING ISLAMIC VEILING, THE HEAD SCARF, SECLUSION OF WOMEN, ARRANGED MARRIAGE, & POLYGAMY AS SACRED RELIGIOUS RIGHTS -- TOLERATION OF MAJOR MISOGYNY, BARBARISM, & GENOCIDAL VIOLENCE PRACTICED IN OR BY ISLAMIC CULTURES & COUNTRIES -- PRESTIGIOUS UNIVERSITY PRESSES PUBLISHING NON-SCHOLARLY WORKS, WORKS OF PROPAGANDA WRITTEN BY WESTERN FEMINISTS & LIBERAL LEFTISTS WHO ARE ASSISTING THE ISLAMISTS IN THEIR GLOBAL WAR AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST -- AIDING & ABETTING THE ISLAMIZATION OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST

THE CAUSE OF THE CURRENT BEHAVIOR OF THE IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME:  WHO IS AT FAULT, THE IRANIAN AYATOLLAHS OR THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION?  MICHAEL RUBIN & BARBARA SLAVIN DEBATE THE ISSUE

MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY & POLITICS:  AN EPISODE IN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- THE PALESTINIAN TERRORIST SKYJACKINGS & HOSTAGE TAKING OF SEPTEMBER, 1970, & THE RESULTING DIPLOMATIC CRISIS & JORDANIAN MILITARY ACTION -- HOW ISRAEL BECAME A PRIME BENEFICIARY OF THE WHOLE EPISODE

HISTORY OF THE THIRD WORLD WAR:  INVOLVEMENT OF THE LATE U.S.S.R. IN THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT DURING THE COLD WAR ERA -- SOVIET EXPLOITATION OF THE MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICT TO ADVANTAGE IN THE GLOBAL WAR WAGED BY THE SOVIET UNION & ITS ALLIES AGAINST THE NON-COMMUNIST WORLD -- RECENT RESEARCH FINDINGS

U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  U.S. PROMOTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN IRAN -- U.S. GOVERNMENT FUNDING OF EFFORTS TO DEVELOP & STRENGTHEN AN INDEPENDENT CIVIL SOCIETY & DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL SYSTEM WITHIN THE BORDERS OF IRAN:  A VITAL TOOL TO ENCOURAGE IRANIAN MODERATION & AVERT MILITARY ESCALATION OR A NUCLEAR IRAN

THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE RESOLUTION & OTHER REPREHENSIBLE & UNPATRIOTIC BEHAVIOR ON THE PART OF CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS:  POLITICAL GRANDSTANDING, HEADLINE HUNTING, & LEAKING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION BY PARTISAN DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS UNDERCUT AMERICA'S WAR AGAINST ISLAMIST TERRORISM -- DEMOCRATS EMBOLDEN THE TERRORISTS & ENDANGER THE LIVES OF U.S. SERVICEMEN FIGHTING TERRORISTS IN IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN -- DEMOCRATS MAKE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT THE JOB OF DEFENDING AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- DEMOCRATS UNDERMINE U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY

DETERIORATING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE U.S.A. & IRAN:  WHO IS TO BE BLAMED?  THE FRADULENT ROOTS OF CRITICISM OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME IN IRAN -- USE OF THE GULDIMANN MEMORANDUM BY POLITICAL OPPONENTS & OTHER CRITICS OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH & THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN AN EFFORT TO CAST BLAME FOR THE ROCKY U.S.-IRANIAN RELATIONSHIP ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S INTRANSIGENCE, RATHER THAN ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM & IT'S SPONSORSHIP & SUPPORT OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM -- SEEKING TO DISCREDIT THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION & BASE FOREIGN POLICY ON A FOUNDATION OF FALSEHOODS THAT WILL ONLY DISTRACT FROM EFFORTS TO RESOLVE INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES BEFORE THEY ESCALATE INTO MILITARY ACTION -- THE NEED TO BASE FOREIGN POLICY ON REALITY

CONFRONTING THE MIDDLE EAST & THE PROBLEM OF IRAQ:  WHY THE MIDDLE EAST HAS REMAINED A STAGNANT SINKHOLE FOR CENTURIES, RESISTANT TO CHANGE, ARMORED AGAINST RATIONAL BEHAVIOR, & CHAINED TO BARBARISM -- ISLAM AS THE REAL PROBLEM OF IRAQ & THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST -- ISLAMIC FANATICISM & INTOLERANCE AS THE FORCE WHICH DESTROYED IRAQ IN THE WAKE OF THE U.S. MILITARY INVASION & OCCUPATION -- HUMAN NATURE, ISLAMIC CULTURE, & THE POWER OF FIERCELY HELD NOTIONS OF RELIGION, MORALITY, & HONOR

THE U.S.A., RUSSIA, CHINA, & IRAN:  IRAN'S EFFORTS TO BECOME A NUCLEAR POWER & THE INTEREST OF THE U.S.A. IN BLOCKING ACHIEVEMENT OF THAT OBJECTIVE -- HOW & WHY RUSSIA & CHINA ARE UNDERCUTTING THE U.S. ENDEAVOR TO PREVENT IRAN FROM ACQUIRING & ENRICHING URANIUM -- UNILATERALISM VERSUS MULTILATERALISM IN AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY REGARDING IRAN -- REALISM VERSUS MULTILATERALISM IN U.S. FOREIGN & MILITARY POLICY -- THE NEED FOR U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY LEADERS TO BE REALISTIC & AVOID CONFUSING REALISM WITH IDEALISM

ALIREZA JAFARZADEH ON THE IRANIAN THREAT, IRANIAN PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, THE COMING NUCLEAR CRISIS, & HOW THE U.S.A. SHOULD DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM OF IRAN:  A REPORT ON JAFARZADEH'S BRIEFING REGARDING THE IRANIAN THREAT & HIS NEW BOOK -- IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM, ITS GOAL OF IMPOSING GLOBAL ISLAMIC RULE, & THE PROXY WAR IT IS WAGING AGAINST U.S. FORCES IN IRAQ -- THE BEST POLICY OPTION FOR THE U.S.A. IN DEALING WITH THE IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME -- THE FUTILITY & OUTRIGHT DANGER OF TALKS HELD BETWEEN U.S. OFFICIALS & THEIR IRANIAN COUNTERPARTS -- WHAT THE U.S.A. SHOULD DO ABOUT THE IRANIAN REGIME'S INFLUENCE ON IRAQI POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

THE GROWING ANTI-SEMITISM BEING EXPOUNDED IN AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION:   INDOCTRINATION OF STUDENTS IN ANTI-SEMITISM (DISGUISED AS ANTI-ZIONISM) IN UNIVERSITY CLASSROOMS & ON UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES -- THE DEMORALIZING CHALLENGE WHICH CONFRONTS PRO-ISRAEL STUDENTS DEFENDING ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST AS A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC JEWISH STATE, AS WELL AS EXPRESSING CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL VIEWS -- THE DIRE NEED FOR A BALANCED REPRESENTATION OF ISRAEL & THE MIDDLE EAST IN AMERICA'S EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

THE EVOLVING RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SYRIA & HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON: HEZBOLLAH'S TRANSITION FROM THE ROLE OF SUBSERVIENT JUNIOR PARTNER IN ITS AXIS WITH SYRIA TO THE ROLE OF DOMINANT PARTNER -- THE CONSEQUENT WEAKENING OF SYRIA'S ROLE IN LEBANON -- HEZBOLLAH'S ABANDONMENT OF COOPERATION WITH THE EXISTING LEBANESE GOVERNMENT, STAKING OUT A MORE MAXIMALIST POSITION TO DOMINATE LEBANON & TRANSFORM ITS POLITICAL CHARACTER INTO AN IRANIAN-STYLE ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST STATE -- THE STRENGTHENING ROLE OF IRAN IN LEBANON, WHERE IRANIAN AGENTS, IN LEAGUE WITH HEZBOLLAH, HAVE CONSOLIDATED A STATE WITHIN A STATE -- THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC'S ADOPTION OF SYRIA'S FORMER DOMINANT ROLE IN LEBANON

THE IRAQI SITUATION & THE WAR ON TERRORISM:  AMERICA'S MORAL & STRATEGIC IMPERATIVE IN IRAQ -- HELPING IRAQ DEFEAT THE TERRORISTS & EXTREMISTS WHO THREATEN THE COUNTRY'S FUTURE -- THE NEW STRATEGY IN IRAQ -- THE SURGE IN UNITED STATES FORCES & THE SERIES OF OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS TO DRIVE THE TERRORISTS & MILITIAS OUT OF THEIR STRONGHOLDS -- OVERTURNING & DESTROYING THE TALIBAN-LIKE, TYRANNICAL RULE OF AL-QA'IDA -- THE EVOLVING MISSION OF THE U.S.A. IN IRAQ -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SUCCESS IN IRAQ & AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY

ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS OF AN EFFECTIVE STRATEGY FOR DEFEATING THE INSURGENCY & TERRORISM IN IRAQ & ESTABLISHING & MAINTAINING LONGTERM STABILITY IN THAT COUNTRY -- THE MILITARY COMPONENT:   CONTINUING THE "SURGE" & KEEPING THE ADDITIONAL COALITION TROOPS IN PLACE FOR AN INDEFINITE PERIOD OF TIME;  THE POLITICAL COMPONENT:  A COMPREHENSIVE INFORMATION & COUNTER-PROPAGANDA OPERATIONS CAMPAIGN TO MAKE POSSIBLE EFFECTIVE ENGAGEMENT WITH KEY SEGMENTS OF THE IRAQI POPULATION -- WHAT IS MOST LACKING IN COALITION STRATEGY:  A SUCCESSFUL ENDEAVOR TO COUNTER ENEMY PROPAGANDA, EITHER RESPONDING RAPIDLY WITH EFFECTIVE COUNTER MESSAGES OR PROACTIVELY CHALLENGING THE MESSAGES, METHODS, & IDEOLOGY THAT THE INSURGENTS & MUSLIM EXTREMISTS PROMOTE & EXPLOIT

THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2008, PARTISAN POLITICS, & THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST:  THE TERROR WAR, AMERICAN HOMELAND SECURITY, & THE NEED FOR STRONG & EFFECTIVE PRESIDENTIAL LEADERSHIP DURING THIS TIME OF GREAT DANGER TO THE AMERICAN NATION & ITS ALLIES -- WHAT CURRENT JOCKEYING AMONG TOP CONTENDERS FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION REVEALS:  THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CONTENDERS' LACK OF COMPREHENSION OF THE NATURE OF THE ISLAMIST ENEMY & THEIR INABILITY TO LEAD AMERICA IN FACING & DEFEATING THAT DEADLY ENEMY -- THE DISASTEROUS RESULTS THAT WILL OCCUR, SHOULD EITHER HILLARY CLINTON OR BARACK OBAMA BE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

THE BUSH PRESIDENCY & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY:  THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIPLOMACY & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- HOW A MAJOR WORLD POWER'S BROKEN PROMISES IMPACT UPON INTERNATIONAL CRISES -- THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF DETERIORATING RELATIONS BETWEEN THE U.S.A. & ONCE-STAUNCH ALLIES SUCH AS TURKEY, ISRAEL, TAIWAN, JAPAN, & SOUTH KOREA -- HOW WELL HAS THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION LIVED UP TO ITS COMMITMENT TO PROMOTE INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM & STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN ISLAMIC NORTH AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST?

THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST, POLITICIZED HISTORY, & THE ANCIENT WORLD: MIDDLE EASTERN CULTURES & STATES RETROACTIVELY CLAIMING ROOTS TO ANCIENT TRIBES & EMPIRES IN ORDER TO LEGITIMIZE MODERN NATIONALISM -- THE PALESTINIAN ARABS' CLAIM OF DESCENT FROM THE ANCIENT CANAANITE TRIBE OF THE JEBUSITES -- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CLAIMED PALESTINIAN-JEBUSITE LINK -- THE IMPACT ON INTERNATIONAL POLITICS & DIPLOMACY RELATING TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- THE RELIGIOUS IMPLICATIONS FOR JEWS & EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS

OPERATION PHANTOM THUNDER:  THE LARGEST COORDINATED MILITARY OPERATION IN IRAQ SINCE THE U.S. INVASION IN 2003 -- THE SURGE IN DEPLOYMENT OF AMERICAN TROOPS IN SUPPORT OF THE ENDEAVOR TO DISRUPT & DESTROY ISLAMIST TERRORIST BASES & NETWORKS THROUGHOUT IRAQ -- SHOULD THE SURGE & OPERATION CONTINUE, OR SHOULD THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CHANGE COURSE?  ENUMERATION & EVALUATION OF THE POLICY OPTIONS

ISLAMISM, AL-QA'IDA, & RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST:  THE ARRIVAL OF A NEW GENERATION OF JIHADIST LEADERS -- SHEIKH HASSAN DAHIR AWEYS IN SOMALIA, ABU AYYUB AL-MASRI IN IRAQ, MATIUR REHMAN & FAQIR MOHAMMED IN PAKISTAN, ARIS SUMARSONO IN INDONESIA, & THE PROFOUND EFFECT THEIR DECISIONS ALREADY HAVE HAD ON THE COURSE OF THE GLOBAL TERROR WAR -- WHY THESE NEW JIHADIST LEADERS MAY BECOME EVEN MORE LETHAL THAN THEIR PREDECESSORS -- THE TWO GOALS UPON WHICH U.S. & WESTERN OFFICIALS MUST FOCUS IN ORDER TO EFFECTIVELY COUNTER AL-QA'IDA'S NEW GENERATION OF LEADERS

AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD IRAN:  WHAT SHOULD THAT POLICY BE? CONTINUOUSLY APPLY PRESSURE ON THE IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME TO DEMOCRATIZE & RECOGNIZE HUMAN RIGHTS -- PROMOTE THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDEPENDENT LABOR UNIONS, INDEPENDENT MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS, & OTHER INDEPENDENT CENTERS OF POLITICAL POWER & INFLUENCE IN IRAN -- CREATE SPACE FOR REAL CIVIL SOCIETY TO EMERGE IN IRAN -- REJECT THE NAIVE & DANGEROUS ASSUMPTION THAT, WITH DIPLOMACY, THE U.S.A. & IRAN CAN RESOLVE THEIR DIFFERENCES

THE RELEVANCE OF IRAQI NATIONAL CULTURE & IDENTITY TO IRAQI POLITICS & GOVERNANCE:  BEDOUIN CULTURE AS THE BEDROCK OF IRAQI SOCIETY -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BEDOUIN CULTURE & PREVAILING CONDITIONS OF VIOLENCE & POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN IRAQ -- IRAQI CULTURAL LIFE UNDER THE POLITICAL REGIME OF SADDAM HUSSEIN -- CULTURAL TRENDS SINCE THE FALL OF SADDAM HUSSEIN -- THE PARADOX PRESENTED BY IRAQI CULTURE

THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST -- THE JIHAD & WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION -- THE ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY THAT AL-QA'IDA CAN & WILL ACQUIRE A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF NUCLEAR DEVICES & SMUGGLE THEM INTO THE U.S.A. IN ORDER TO DESTROY AMERICA'S KEY CITIES -- THE DIRE NEED FOR AMERICANS TO BECOME FULLY ALERT TO THE VERY REAL DANGER FACING OUR NATION IN THE ISLAMIST TERROR WAR & FOCUS OUR EFFORTS ON DESTROYING AL-QA'IDA & ALL OF ITS AFFILIATES & OTHER COLLABORATING ENTITIES

THE UNITED NATIONS, THE PALESTINIAN AGENDA, & ISLAMIC TERRORISM:  THE UN AS A PROPAGANDA MACHINE FOR DELITIMIZATION OF ISRAEL & FOR PROMOTION & PERPETUATION OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY -- UNRWA AS AN APPARATUS THROUGH WHICH THE U.S.A. & THE WEST HELP FUND THE ACTIVITIES OF THEIR ENEMIES IN THE ISLAMIST TERROR WAR

THE FORMER SOVIET UNION & THE OUTBREAK OF THE SIX-DAY WAR OF 1967:  THE ROLE OF THE U.S.S.R. IN EXACERBATING THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- THE SIX-DAY WAR AS A FOOTNOTE IN THE HISTORY OF SOVIET DECEPTION, TRICKERY, CONNIVANCE, & TREACHERY DURING THE COLD WAR

THE MASS IGNORANCE, BACKWARDNESS, CORRUPTION, & OPPRESSION OF THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST:  ISLAM AS THE SOURCE OF TERRORISM & WARS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- ISLAM'S CONTINUING RESISTANCE TO & REJECTION OF ANYTHING THAT SMACKS OF MODERN CIVILIZED BEHAVIOR -- THE ONLY PEACE THAT ISLAM OFFERS THE WORLD:   COMPLETE SURRENDER & SUBORDINATION TO ISLAMIC DOMINATION, OR THE PEACE OF THE GRAVE -- THE POPULATION OF THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST HELD IN THE GRIP OF A "RELIGION" SPREAD BY THE SWORD & MAINTAINED BY INSURING THAT ENLIGHTENMENT OF ANY KIND IS FEARED & DESTROYED -- THE NEED FOR AMERICA & THE WEST TO EFFECTIVELY COMBAT THE ISLAMIST TERRORISM THAT WOULD BRING TO US A DARK AGE RULED BY ISLAM

ANTI-SEMITISM, HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM, & IRAN'S CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME:  THE ROOTS OF HOLOCAUST DENIAL -- IRAN AS THE NEW CENTER OF STRIDENT ANTI-SEMITISM & HOLOCAUST DENIAL -- THE 2006 "REVIEW OF THE HOLOCAUST: GLOBAL VISION" CONFERENCE IN TEHRAN -- ISLAMIC POLITICS, MILITANT ISLAM, & THE STRATEGIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE IRANIAN REGIME'S HOLOCAUST DENIAL

THE CURRENT CONDITION OF THE POLITICAL REGIME IN IRAQI KURDISTAN: AUTHORITARIAN GOVERNMENT & POLITICAL INSTABILITY -- PROSPECTS FOR ESTABLISHING THE RULE OF LAW & A STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY SERIOUSLY ERODED BY A GROWING CULTURE OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION, NEPOTISM, & ABUSE OF POWER -- THE ENTRENCHED POLITICAL PARTIES & THEIR CREATION OF A SYSTEM WHICH IMMUNIZES THEM FROM ACCOUNTABILITY & COMPETITION -- ABSENCE OF INDEPENDENT ORGANIZATIONS & MEDIA OUTLETS CAPABLE OF PROVIDING A CHECK UPON ABUSE OF POWER -- PARTISAN POLITICAL MANIPULATION & CONTROL OF THE SECURITY FORCES -- THE ROLE OF THE UNITED STATES IN ENABLING AUTHORITARIANISM & TYRANNY IN THE KURDISTAN REGION

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S PROMOTION OF THE RULE OF LAW, HUMAN RIGHTS, & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES -- HOW & WHY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION ABANDONED THE DEMOCRATIZATION AGENDA -- WEAKNESSES IN PRESIDENT BUSH'S FOREIGN POLICY TEAM -- THE WEAKNESS & DISORGANIZATION OF BUSH'S NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL & ITS FAILURE TO COORDINATE POLICY ACROSS AGENCIES -- HOW CAREER BUREAUCRATS IN THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY & THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE FUNCTION AS STUMBLING BLOCKS TO THE EFFECTIVE CONDUCT OF AMERICAN FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY

TERRORISM, WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE, & U.S. MILITARY PLANNING:  THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY & ASYMMETRY -- U.S. MILITARY HISTORY & ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE -- TERRORISM & PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS -- THE VULNERABILITY OF DEMOCRACIES TO TERRORISM -- THE THEORY THAT THERE HAS BEEN A REVOLUTION IN MILITARY AFFAIRS -- THE THREAT POSED BY WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION -- THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE & THE IMPORTANCE OF INFORMATION WARFARE -- PREEMPTION, MULTILATERALISM, & DIPLOMACY -- FLEXIBILITY IN INTERPRETING INTERNATIONAL NORMS & THE LAWS OF WARFARE

THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF THE PALESTINIANS' CURRENT CONDITION OF POVERTY, MISERY, & STATELESSNESS:   PALESTINIAN BEHAVIOR BEFORE & AFTER 1948 -- WHAT IS ESSENTIAL TO THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE'S ACQUIRING THE ABILITY TO HELP THEMSELVES IMPROVE THEIR PRESENT CONDITION:  THEIR TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR COLLECTIVE DESTINY

WHAT WOULD BE THE CONSEQUENCE OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALLY DEFINING THE CONFLICT IN IRAQ AS A CIVIL WAR?  WHAT PARADIGM SHIFT IN UNDERSTANDING THE CONFLICT WOULD BE REQUIRED?  WHAT IMPORTANT AMERICAN STRATEGIC INTERESTS ARE AT STAKE?  IF IRAQ IS EMBROILED IN A SECTARIAN CIVIL WAR BETWEEN SHI'ITES & SUNNIS, SHOULD THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SUPPORT SHI'ITE PARTIES OR A SHI'ITE-DOMINATED IRAQI GOVERNMENT?  WOULD AN ALLIANCE BETWEEN THE U.S.A. & IRAQI SUNNI ARABS BE IN THE U.S. NATIONAL INTEREST?  SHOULD U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ CONTINUE, OR SHOULD U.S. & COALITION TROOPS BE WITHDRAWN?

MISTAKES THAT WERE MADE IN THE U.S. MILITARY INVASION & OCCUPATION OF IRAQ & IN THE SUBSEQUENT ENDEAVOR TO BRING TO THAT COUNTRY THE RULE OF LAW & A STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  WHAT AMERICA'S NATIONAL LEADERS FAILED TO FORESEE AS CONSEQUENCES OF THE INVASION & OCCUPATION -- WHAT THEY FAILED TO COMPREHEND ABOUT IRAQ & THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- WHAT THE U.S.A. SHOULD DO ABOUT THE CURRENT CHAOTIC SITUATION IN IRAQ -- ALAN CARUBA'S ARGUMENT THAT AMERICA SHOULD WITHDRAW ITS MILITARY FORCE FROM IRAQ & LET THE IRAQIS DEAL WITH THE CHAOS

THE MIDDLE EAST, ISLAMISM, & THE TERROR WAR AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST: FACING A DEADLY ENEMY DEDICATED TO THE PROPOSITION THAT AMERICA, ISRAEL, & THE WEST MUST BE DESTROYED -- FIGHTING THE JIHADIST ENEMY AT HOME & ABROAD -- WHY THE AMERICAN HOMELAND IS VULNERABLE TO FURTHER TERRORIST ATTACKS, REGARDLESS OF THE NUMBER OF TROOPS WE HAVE IN IRAQ -- RELEVANCE OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION & OPEN BORDERS TO THE CONTINUING VULNERABILITY OF THE U.S.A. TO TERRORIST ATTACKS -- THE FUTILITY OF EFFORTS TO MAINTAIN ORDER IN IRAQ & BRING TO THAT COUNTRY THE RULE OF LAW & A STABLE SYSTEM OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE POST-WORLD WAR II ERA:  HOW THE U.S.A. HAS APPLIED ITS POWER MILITARILY & THROUGH THE TRADECRAFT OF SPYING -- A STRING OF BLUNDERS & FAILURES UNDERMINING THE POLITICAL CULTURE THAT ENCOURAGES & SUSTAINS EFFECTIVE U.S. FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY -- THE FAILURE OF AMERICA'S NATIONAL LEADERS TO LEARN FROM THE MISTAKES OF THE PAST

IRAN, THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM, & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY:  THE GROWING DEBATE OVER WHETHER THE U.S.A. SHOULD PURSUE A POLICY OF FORCIBLE REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN -- THE RISKS & CONSEQUENCES OF U.S. MILITARY ACTION TO ACCOMPLISH IRANIAN REGIME CHANGE -- THE VIABILITY OF DETERRENCE & DIPLOMACY AS ALTERNATIVES TO MILITARY ACTION -- PROSPECTS FOR THE SUCCESS OF IRANIAN EFFORTS TO DEMOCRATIZE IRAN, ESTABLISH THE RULE OF LAW IN THAT COUNTRY, & FORCE CONSTITUTIONAL RESTRAINTS & DEMOCRATIC ACCOUNTABILITY UPON THE IRANIAN LEADERSHIP

ISRAEL, HEZBOLLAH, LEBANON, SYRIA, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  THE SECOND LEBANON WAR AS A FALTERING, INDECISIVE WAR RESULTING FROM ISRAEL'S STRATEGIC FOLLIES & OPERATIONAL DEFICIENCES -- THE ISRAELI POLITICAL & MILITARY LEADERSHIP'S LACK OF A CLEAR CONCEPT OF WHAT VICTORY OVER HEZBOLLAH ENTAILED -- HOW ISRAEL SQUANDERED AN OPPORTUNITY TO SETTLE REGIONAL SCORES & MAINTAIN UNQUESTIONED ISRAELI DETERRENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE STRENGTHS & ADVANTAGES UPON WHICH ISRAEL CAN BUILD & PREPARE TO ATTAIN A CLEAR & DECISIVE VICTORY IN THE NEXT ROUND WITH HEZBOLLAH & THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME

VIEWING THE U.S. INVASION & OCCUPATION OF IRAQ AS ONE BATTLE IN A LONG WAR: ALAN CARUBA ARGUES THAT IT IS TIME FOR A STRATEGIC WITHDRAWAL FROM IRAQ, THAT WE NEED TO BRING OUR MILITARY FORCES HOME IN ORDER TO RETRAIN, REBUILD, RE-EQUIP, & EXPAND THEM TO MEET THE CHALLENGES THAT LIE AHEAD IN THE LONG WAR WITH ISLAMISM

AMERICA'S FIRST CLASH WITH MILITANT ISLAM:  THE IRANIAN ISLAMISTS' SEIZURE OF THE U.S. EMBASSY IN TEHRAN IN 1979 -- THE POLITICAL FORCES THAT ACTED UPON THE CARTER PRESIDENCY TO CAUSE IT TO FEEL THAT THERE REALLY WAS NOTHING THE U.S.A. COULD DO ABOUT THE SITUATION -- COULD & SHOULD THE U.S. GOVERNMENT HAVE PUNISHED THE IRANIANS MILITARILY?  DID THE CARTER ADMINISTRATION PLAY INTO THE IRANIANS' HANDS BY PLACING THE WELFARE OF THE HOSTAGES ABOVE ALL OTHER AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS?  IN THIS REGARD, WHAT LESSON SHOULD WE HAVE LEARNED FROM THE MANY ISRAELI EXPERIENCES?

THE MIDDLE EAST:  ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE -- THE ORIGIN OF MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICAL TRADITIONS & STRUCTURES -- COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ANCIENT & MODERN GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS -- THE TENSION BETWEEN THE AUTHORITARIAN RULE OF CENTRALIZED STATE GOVERNMENT & THE COUNTERVAILING POWER OF LOCAL ENTITIES -- THE CONTEMPORARY BATTLE BETWEEN EXCLUSIONARY & CONSENSUAL GOVERNING SYSTEMS

THE CONDITION NECESSARY FOR PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE BETWEEN PALESTINIAN ARABS & ISRAELI JEWS:  THAT PALESTINIAN SOCIETY EXPERIENCE A BREAKTHROUGH IN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC THOUGHT & VALUES, A BREAKTHROUGH ACCEPTING THE PERMANENT EXISTENCE OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT HONEST RELATIONS BETWEEN ISRAEL & THE PALESTINIANS ARE NORMAL & NATURAL, & ALLOWING FOR THE GROWTH OF AN ECONOMICALLY PROSPEROUS & POLITICALLY INFLUENTIAL PALESTINIAN MIDDLE CLASS

THE BARZANI FAMILY:  KURDISH POLITICS, INTERNATIONAL TREACHERY, & KURDISH NATIONALISM -- SWITCHING ALLIANCES AS PART OF THE BARZANI FAMILY POLITICAL CULTURE -- MASOUD BARZANI AS AN EXTREMELY UNREALIABLE ALLY OF THE U.S.A.

ISLAM, ISLAMISM, & MODERN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  ARE THE WESTERN CONCEPTS OF CONSTITUTIONALISM, REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT, POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY, & HUMAN RIGHTS COMPATIBLE WITH EITHER ISLAMIST POLITICAL IDEOLOGY OR A STRICT, LITERAL INTERPRETATION OF TRADITIONAL ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS DOGMA?  CAN MUSLIM SOCIETIES DEVELOP & SUCCESSFULLY OPERATE STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES?  THE THEORY OF JOHN L. ESPOSITO -- EXPOUNDING & AMPLIFYING THE THEORY -- ISLAMIST REJECTION OF THE THEORY -- THE ESPOSITO THEORY VERSUS REALITY -- HOW THE THEORY & ITS APPLICATION ENDANGER AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS & THE SURVIVAL OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

MODERN EGYPT:  ITS HISTORY, POLITICS, POLITICAL REGIME, PUBLIC POLICY, & POSITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- LIBERALISM, NATIONALISM, & ISLAMISM IN EGYPT -- RELATIONS BETWEEN EGYPT & THE U.S.A. -- A REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT LITERATURE

WHY DO IRANIAN LEADERS & OTHER ISLAMISTS BEHAVE LIKE UNCIVILIZED BARBARIANS?  THE ANSWER LIES IN THE HISTORY OF ISLAM:  HOW THE MUSLIM "RELIGION" CAME INTO BEING, HOW & WHY IT HAS SPREAD OVER A VAST AREA OF THE GLOBE, & HOW ITS HARDCORE ADHERENTS HAVE CONDUCTED THEMSELVES BEFORE & SINCE THE DEATH OF MUHAMMAD -- THE CONSEQUENCES OF ANY FAILURE OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST TO RESPOND VIGOROUSLY TO IRAN & THE ISLAMIST THREAT -- ANNIHILATION OF OUR ENEMIES SHOULD BE AMERICA'S SOLE PURPOSE IN WAGING WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST OR ANY OTHER PLACE

SAUDI ARABIA:  ITS BIPOLAR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- THE CONTINUING DEPENDENCE OF WESTERN ECONOMIES ON IMPORTED OIL, OF WHICH SAUDI OIL FIELDS ARE AN IMPORTANT SOURCE -- THE REPULSION OF MANY WESTERN LEADERS & POLICYMAKERS TO SAUDI SUBSIDATION OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM -- A REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT LITERATURE

IRAQ, IRAQI KURDISTAN, ETHNIC FEDERALISM, & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  U.S. SUPPORT FOR KURDISH NATIONALISM & ITS DRIVE TO BRING ABOUT AN INDEPENDENT & UNITED KURDISTAN -- THE KURDISH NATIONALIST DRIVE & ITS THREAT TO TURKEY'S NATIONAL SECURITY & TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY

SCHOLARSHIP ON CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN SOCIETY, POLITICS, & FOREIGN POLICY:  A REVIEW OF THE RELEVANT LITERATURE -- SEPARATING THE GOOD BOOKS FROM THE BAD BOOKS -- DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN SOUND ANALYSIS & FLAWED ANALYSIS

WESTERN EFFORTS TO INDUCE IRAN'S POLITICAL REGIME TO END ITS ACCELERATING NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROGRAM & THE USE & SPONSORSHIP OF TERRORISM:  THE FUTILITY & OUTRIGHT DANGER OF THE WEST'S SEEKING ENGAGEMENT & DIALOGUE WITH THE IRANIAN LEADERSHIP -- THE IRANIAN REGIME'S EXPLOITATION OF ENGAGEMENT & DIALOGUE TO ADVANCE ITS AGENDA & CONTINUE THREATENING WORLD PEACE --THE WEST'S MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE NATURE OF POLITICS IN IRAN -- FAILURE OF WESTERN ANALYSTS TO COMPREHEND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE IRANIAN REGIME'S IDEOLOGICAL UNDERPINNINGS

RECENT BOOKS ABOUT IRAQ, THE IRAQ WAR, IRAQI POLITICS, CULTURE & SOCIETY, & UNITED STATES POLICY IN IRAQ:  SEPARATING THE GOOD BOOKS FROM THE BAD BOOKS -- DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN SOUND ANALYSIS & FLAWED ANALYSIS

THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  THE ISLAMIST WAR TO CONQUER & DESTROY THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- AN ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENT FOR THE WORLD'S FUTURE PEACE & SECURITY:  THAT AMERICA, ISRAEL, & THE WEST CONQUER & ANNIHILATE THE EVIL & DEADLY FORCES OF ISLAMIC BARBARISM -- IF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH DECIDES TO REDUCE LARGE PORTIONS OF BAGHDAD TO RUBBLE & OBLITERATE BIG CHUNKS OF IRAN, HISTORY WILL LIKELY SAY HE WAS RIGHT TO DO SO

THE MIDDLE EAST, HAMAS, TERRORISM, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  HAMAS' OPERATION OF A TYRANNICAL DICTATORSHIP OVER THE PALESTINIANS IN GAZA & THE WEST BANK -- HAMAS' CONTINUING ACTS OF TERROR AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL & ENDORSEMENT OF MISSILE STRIKES ON ISRAELI CIVILIANS -- HOW THEIR FUNDING & SUPPORT OF HAMAS & OTHER TERRORIST GROUPS HAS REAPED HUGE DIVIDENDS FOR IRAN, SAUDI ARABIA, & OTHER MUSLIM STATES OF THE MIDDLE EAST -- HOW WESTERN EQUIVOCATION, VACILLATION, & LACK OF RESOLVE CONTRIBUTE TO TERRORISM & DICTATORSHIP IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S ABANDONMENT OF ITS PROMOTION OF THE RULE OF LAW, CONSTITUTIONALISM, FREE & UNFETTERED ELECTIONS, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, & HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTIONS IN MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES

TURKISH POLITICS & THE THREAT OF ISLAMISM:  THE ISLAMIST THREAT TO TURKEY AS A SECULAR STATE -- THE ISLAMIST ROOTS OF TURKEY'S RULING JUSTICE & DEVELOPMENT PARTY -- PRIME MINISTER RECEP ERDOGAN'S USE OF THE AKP SUPERMAJORITY IN THE GRAND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY TO ERODE THE INSTITUTIONS & MECHANISMS AT THE HEART OF TURKISH SECULARISM -- ISLAMIZING EDUCATION & THE JUDICIARY -- AKP POLITICAL CORRUPTION -- DECLINING AKP POPULARITY & THE COMING SHOWDOWN -- WILL MILITARY INTERVENTION BE NECESSARY TO PREVENT AN ERDOGAN PRESIDENCY? WHAT SHOULD THE U.S.A. DO ABOUT THE SITUATION IN TURKEY?

FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY TOWARD THE ARABS & THE JEWS:  A POLICY THAT IS PRO-ARAB & ANTI-ISRAELI -- FRENCH FOREIGN POLICY AT ODDS WITH AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE CHARACTER & LONG HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM IN FRANCE -- THE PRO-MUSLIM ATTITUDES & VIEWS OF THE FRENCH DIPLOMATIC & POLITICAL ELITES -- WHY THE FRENCH, IN INTERNATIONAL CRISES THROUGHOUT THE LAST THREE OR FOUR DECADES, HAVE OBSTRUCTED EVERY WESTERN INITIATIVE & POLICY & THEREBY FACILITATED VIOLENCE, TERRORISM, & WAR -- WHY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED SADDAM HUSSEIN IN IRAQ & YASIR ARAFAT IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- THE ROLE OF FRANCE IN BRINGING ABOUT THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION IN IRAN -- THE FRENCH PENCHANT FOR HARBORING ISLAMIC EXTREMISTS & APPEASING GENOCIDAL ISLAMIC STATES

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY, ISLAMISM & THE ISLAMIC WORLD, & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  WHAT THE U.S.A. MUST DO IN ORDER TO MORE EFFECTIVELY HELP PROTECT WESTERN CIVILIZATION FROM THE FORCES OF ISLAMIC BARBARISM -- ALAN CARUBA ARGUES THAT AMERICA NEEDS TO TAKE A BREAK FROM WAGING WAR & STEP BACK TO DETERMINE WHAT THE NEXT CORRECT COURSE OF ACTION SHOULD BE

FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT JAMES EARL CARTER & HIS PROPAGANDA WAR AGAINST ISRAEL, ISRAELI POLITICIANS, & ISRAEL'S SUPPORTERS:  CARTER'S FLAWED ANALYSIS OF MIDDLE EASTERN AFFAIRS & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- ALLOWING POLITICAL BIAS & IDEOLOGY TO GET IN THE WAY OF FACTS -- MANIPULATION OF FACTS, DISTORTIONS, & FALSEHOODS TO SUPPORT PRE-CONCEIVED NOTIONS & ARRIVING AT DESIRED CONCLUSIONS -- INVENTING HISTORY & EXCUSING SUICIDE BOMBINGS & OTHER ACTS OF ARAB TERRORISM -- DEMONSTRATING DECEITFULNESS, CRASS CONCEIT, POMPOSITY, DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR, MEAN-SPIRITEDNESS, PSYCHOTIC ANIMOSITY TOWARD ISRAELIS & AMERICAN JEWS, & A STRONG BIAS IN FAVOR OF THE ARAB SIDE IN THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT

RUSSIAN FEDERATION PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN'S POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST: WHERE DOES THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT STAND IN THE FIGHT AGAINST ISLAMISM & THE GLOBAL WAR AGAINST ISLAMIC TERRORISM?  ARE RUSSIA & THE U.S.A. INCREASINGLY UNITED BY COMMON VALUES?  IS RUSSIA REALLY A PARTNER IN THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM?  OR, HAS THE KREMLIN BECOME AN IMPEDIMENT TO THE FIGHT AGAINST ISLAMIST TERROR & TO U.S. EFFORTS TO PROMOTE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  HOW RUSSIA'S ACTIONS VIS-A-VIS THE MIDDLE EAST CAST DOUBT ON RUSSIAN MOTIVATIONS?

ISRAELI STRATEGIC MILITARY POLICY:  UPON WHICH POLICY SHOULD ISRAEL RELY IN ITS ENDEAVOR TO ENSURE ITS OWN DEFENSE & SECURITY & END OR SIGNIFICANTLY MITIGATE THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, A POLICY OF STRATEGIC DETERRRENCE, OR ONE OF STRATEGIC RESTRAINT?  PAST EXPERIENCE:  SUCCESS OF ISRAEL'S POLICY OF MILITARILY RESPONDING WITH DISPROPORTIONATE FORCE TO CROSS-BORDER TERRORIST ATTACKS ON ISRAEL -- FAILURE OF THE POLICY OF STRATEGIC RESTRAINT

ISRAEL, ISRAELI JEWS, & ISRAELI ARABS:  THE STATE OF ISRAEL DOOMED BY DEMOGRAPHICS -- THE ARGUMENT THAT THE RAPIDLY GROWING MUSLIM ARAB POPULATION WITHIN THE BORDERS OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL MAKES VERY UNLIKELY THE LONGTERM SURVIVAL OF THE JEWISH STATE

IRAN:  STAGE-MANAGED DEMONSTRATIONS, POLITICAL PROPAGANDA, & THE WEAKNESSES OF THE IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME -- HOW THE U.S.A. & THE WEST CAN CAPITALIZE ON THE REGIME'S WEAKNESSES & THEREBY EFFECT THE OVERTHROW & DESTRUCTION OF A DANGEROUS ENEMY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- THE ROLE OF THE VOICE OF AMERICA IN EFFECTIVELY IMPLEMENTING SUCH A STRATEGY -- WHY AMERICA & THE WEST SHOULD NOT BE DETERRED BY THEIR DESIRE FOR DIPLOMACY, DIALOGUE, & ENGAGEMENT

IRAQ & THE U.S. MILITARY OCCUPATION:  MISSION ACCOMPLISHED; TIME TO DEPART -- THE ARGUMENT THAT, SINCE THE U.S.A. HAS SUCCEEDED IN REMOVING SADDAM HUSSEIN FROM POWER & HAS DONE ALL IT COULD TO ASSIST THE IRAQIS IN ESTABLISHING A STABLE GOVERNMENT & A NEW ARMY & POLICE FORCE, U.S. MILITARY FORCES & THOSE OF OUR COALITION ALLIES SHOULD BE WITHDRAWN FROM IRAQ SWIFTLY, BUT DECIDEDLY -- IF THE IRAQIS PROVE UNWILLING TO OPERATE A CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT & INSIST ON WAGING A CIVIL WAR TO DETERMINE WHO CONTROLS IRAQ, THEN LET THE SUNNIS, SHIITES, & KURDS FIGHT IT OUT & KILL EACH OTHER OFF -- IF THE ENSUING REGIONAL CONFLICT EXHAUSTS OR DESTROYS ISLAM'S MILITARISTIC INTENTION TO DOMINATE THE ENTIRE GLOBE, AMERICA & THE WEST WILL BE THE ULTIMATE WINNERS

AMERICAN POLITICS, FOREIGN POLICY, & FREELANCE DIPLOMACY:  U.S. POLITICIANS ENDANGERING AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS & SECURITY BY BLIND & INEPT ENGAGEMENT WITH AMERICA'S ADVERSARIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- LEGITIMIZING TYRANNICAL DICTATORS & STATE SPONSORS OF TERRORISM -- UNPRINCIPLED & IRRESPONSIBLE POLITICIANS USE THEIR SEATS IN THE U.S. SENATE TO UNDERMINE AMERICA'S POSITION IN THE MIDDLE EAST FOR THE SAKE OF GAINING PUBLICITY & FURTHERING THEIR DOMESTIC POLITICAL AMBITIONS

KIRKUK'S FINAL STATUS & THE FUTURE OF IRAQ:  KIRKUK AS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF IRAQI KURDISTAN -- THE ARGUMENT THAT THE POPULATION OF KIRKUK IS PREDOMINANTLY KURDISH & THE CITY & ITS ENVIRONS SHOULD BE INCLUDED WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE KURDISTAN REGIONAL GOVERNMENT

KIRKUK & IRAQ'S FUTURE:  THE QUESTION OF KIRKUK'S FINAL STATUS AS ONE OF THE MOST SENSITIVE ISSUES REGARDING THE FUTURE OF IRAQ -- UNDERSTANDING THE TURKOMAN CLAIM TO KIRKUK ESSENTIAL TO DEFUSING A POTENTIALLY EXPLOSIVE PROBLEM -- WHAT MUST BE DONE TO ENSURE PEACE & STABILITY IN KIRKUK:  THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY & THE NEW IRAQI GOVERNMENT MUST PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF TURKOMANS NOW THREATENED BY BOTH KURDISH EXPANSIONISM & THE INTOLERANCE BY SOME FACTIONS OF IRAQ'S CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

THE 2006 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS & THE SITUATION IN IRAQ:   THE POST-INVASION MESS IN IRAQ AS A FAILURE OF COMPETENCY AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS IN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT -- FAILURE OF THE U.S. WHITE HOUSE & DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE TO PROVIDE EITHER SUFFICIENT MANPOWER OR PLANNING FOR THE POST-INVASION PERIOD -- WILL THE U.S.A. ASSUME THE OBLIGATION OF PROVIDING THE LEADERSHIP & GREATER PORTION OF RESOURCES NECESSARY TO WIN THE WAR AGASINST THE FORCES OF ISLAMIC BARBARISM & THEREBY PROTECT & PRESERVE WESTERN CIVILIZATION? WILL THE U.S. ARMED FORCES BE EXPANDED ENOUGH TO ENABLE AMERICA TO EFFECTIVELY FULFILL THIS OBLIGATION? THESE ARE DECISIONS THAT THE U.S. CONGRESS MUST MAKE, &, ON SUCH DECISIONS, HINGE MUCH OF THE FUTURE AT HOME & ABROAD

ARAB POLITICS, THE ARAB MENTALITY, & THE ARAB WORLD:  ARAB NATIONALISTS, THE ISLAMIST REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT, & THE PROBLEMS FACING THE ARAB WORLD -- HOW THE COMPETING IDEOLOGIES OF ARAB NATIONALISM & RADICAL ISLAMISM REINFORCE THE INTELLECTUAL SYSTEM & WORLDVIEW THAT LOCKS THE ARAB WORLD INTO THE VERY PROBLEMS WHICH BOTH IDEOLOGICAL MOVEMENTS PURPORT TO REMEDY -- WHY THE ARABS WILL NEVER LEARN -- WHY THE ARABS ARE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT PAST MISTAKES & CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE MILITARY DEFEAT, WASTED RESOURCES, TYRANNICAL DICTATORSHIP, & SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKWARDNESS

ISLAMIC TERRORISM & ITS IMPACT ON UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  HOW SUICIDE BOMBING HAS FORCED THE U.S.A. TO REEVALUATE ITS STRATEGIC GOALS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE STRATEGIC REASON WHY THE U.S.A. & ITS COALITION ALLIES ATTACKED & INVADED IRAQ -- THE NEED TO PROTECT THE WEST'S ACCESS TO MIDDLE EASTERN OIL RESERVES -- FINDING THE DELICATE BALANCE BETWEEN THE PROTECTION OF AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS & ENGAGEMENT WITH THE FORCES COMPETING FOR HEGEMONY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

THE WEST VERSUS IRAN:  DEVISING STRATEGIES TO COUNTER IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM -- THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WESTERN COUNTERACTION STRATEGIES & IRANIAN MOTIVES FOR SEEKING TO DEVELOP A NUCLEAR MILITARY CAPABILITY -- THE PRINCIPAL MOTIVATIONAL FACTOR BEHIND THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM -- WHAT THE U/S.A. & THE WEST MUST DO IN ORDER TO CONVINCE THE IRANIAN LEADERSHIP TO CHANGE ITS COURSE & ABANDON THE NUCLEAR PROGRAM -- WHAT ROLE CAN ECONOMIC INSTRUMENTS PLAY IN PERSUADING IRAN?  WHAT ADDITIONAL MEASURES ARE NEEDED?

THE AMERICAN POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT AS THE ISLAMIST ENEMY'S FIFTH COLUMN IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  UNDERMINING AMERICA'S DEFENSE AGAINST THE FORCES OF ISLAMISM -- ADVANCING THE LIBERALS' CONCEPT OF "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS" & THEIR TWISTED PERCEPTION OF FOREIGN POLICY & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- LEFTIST PROPAGANDA DISSEMINATION, GROWING INDECISIVENESS & SELF-DOUBT IN THE U.S.A. & OTHER WESTERN NATIONS, & THE CLOSING WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY BY WHICH THE DISEASE KNOWN AS ISLAMIST FANATICISM & JIHADISM COULD HAVE BEEN DRIVEN INTO REMISSION -- LIBERAL CONCEPTS OF "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS," "DIVERSITY," & "MULTICULTURALISM" ERODING AMERICAN UNITY & RESOLVE IN THE FACE OF THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD & WREAKING HAVOC ON AMERICA'S COMMON NATIONAL CULTURE

MIDDLE EAST POLITICS, ARABS, & THE STATE OF ISRAEL:  THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT CONTINUES, WITH ABSOLUTELY NO POSSIBILITY OF PEACE OBTAINED THROUGH NEGOTIATION & COMPROMISE, DESPITE THE FANTASIES OF JAMES EARL CARTER -- THE ARABS WILL PERSIST IN WAGING THEIR WAR AGAINST ISRAEL, UNLESS & UNTIL THE ARABS ACHIEVE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL OR THE ARABS ARE SUBJECT TO A DECISIVE MILITARY DEFEAT RENDERING THEM, OVER THE LONGTERM, UNABLE TO CONTINUE RESISTING THE EXISTENCE & OPERATION OF THE JEWISH STATE -- ISRAEL'S CHOICE:  SUBMISSION TO AN ISLAMIC HOLOCAUST, ABANDONMENT OF ISRAEL & EMIGRATION, OR SUCCESSFUL PROSECUTION OF A THOROUGHGOING WAR OF EXTINCTION AGAINST ISRAEL'S ENEMIES

PA HATE EDUCATION:  THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY & ITS POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION OF PALESTINIANS -- THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN WHAT THE PA SAYS IN ENGLISH TO THE WESTERN WORLD & WHAT IT SAYS IN ARABIC TO PALESTINIANS, ESPECIALLY TO PALESTINIAN YOUTH -- PREACHING PEACE IN ENGLISH & INCITING WAR IN ARABIC -- TEACHING PALESTINIAN CHILDREN TO HATE JEWS & WESTERNERS & TO GROW UP TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ISLAMIC TERROR WAR AGAINST ISRAEL, THE U.S.A., & THE WEST -- THE PRINCIPAL ELEMENTS OF PA POLITICAL PROPAGANDA & INDOCTRINATION: ANTI-WESTERNISM, ANTI-SEMITISM, DENIAL OF ISRAEL'S RIGHT TO EXIST, ISLAMIC JIHAD, SUICIDE BOMBING, & MARTYRDOM

THE MIDDLE EAST, MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICAL REGIMES, & UNITED STATES AID TO MIDDLE EASTERN DISSIDENTS:   TO WHAT ENTENT & IN WHAT WAYS SHOULD THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGE & SUPPORT POLITICAL DISSIDENTS & PRO-DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS IN MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES GOVERNED BY OPPRESSIVE, TYRANNICAL REGIMES?   SHOULD PROMOTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY UNDER THE RULE OF LAW BE A FOREIGN POLICY GOAL OF THE U.S.A. IN THE MIDDLE EAST?

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY & THE MIDDLE EAST:  U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATIONS & DEFENSE OF AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE ARAB WORLD -- ARAB ATTITUDES & PERCEPTIONS REGARDING THE MIDDLE EASTERN POLICIES OF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- U.S. & WESTERN PRESSURE FOR POLITICAL REFORN & DEMOCRATIZATION IN ARAB COUNTRIES -- FLAWED ANALYSES AMONG ARAB LEADERS, MIDDLE EASTERN CIVIL SOICIETY ADVOCATES, WESTERN LIBERAL LEFTISTS, & SOCALLED "REALISTS" IN THE U.S. FOREIGN POLICY ESTABLISHMENT

ECONOMICS, GEOPOLITICS, & THE CONTINENT OF ASIA:  INTERNATIONAL POLITICS & COMMERCE AMONG STATES IN THE MIDDLE EAST & THE FAR EAST -- THE POLITICAL & ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE OF RECENT SAUDI ARABIAN OVERTURES TO CHINA & INDIA -- DO THE OVERTURES REFLECT A STRATEGIC SHIFT IN SAUDI FOREIGN POLICY?  HOW WILL CLOSER SAUDI TIES WITH CHINA & INDIA AFFECT UNITED STATES INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST & THE FAR EAST?  GEOPOLITICAL IMPEDIMENTS THAT MAY LIMIT FUTURE EXPANSION OF SAUDI TIES WITH CHINA & INDIA

RELIGION & THE TERROR WAR:  ISLAM, ISLAMIC THEOLOGY, ISLAMISM, & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR -- ISLAMIC THEOLOGICAL JUSTIFICATION OF ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY & THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST THE U.S.A., THE WEST, ALL OTHER NON-MUSLIN SOCIETIES & CULTURES, & SECULAR POLITICAL REGIMES IN MUSLIM MAJORITY COUNTRIES -- RELIGIOUS JUSTIFICATION OF SUICIDE BOMBINGS & OTHER ACTS OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM -- VINDICATION OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE AGAINST CIVILIANS AS WELL AS AGAINST MILITARY PERSONNEL

WESTERN ATTITUDES TOWARD MUSLIMS & ARABS:  IN THE U.S.A., HOW MUCH DISCRIMINATION IS THERE AGAINST MUSLIMS & ARABS WHO MIGRATE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TO AMERICA?  HOW WELL DO MUSLIM & ARAB IMMIGRANTS ASSIMILATE INTO AMERICAN SOCIETY?  WHAT ARE THE ATTITUDES OF NATIONAL POLICYMAKERS & FOREIGN POLICY ELITES IN THE U.S.A. & EUROPE, AS REGARDS THE ABILITY OF ISLAMIC MAJORITY COUNTRIES TO ESTABLISH & MAINTAIN STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES -- POLITICAL REGIMES WHICH ARE CHARACTIZED BY THE RULE OF LAW, PRESERVATION OF LIBERTY UNDER LAW, EFFECTIVE ENFORCEMENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITATIONS ON THE POWER OF GOVERNMENT, MAJORITY RULE WITH PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS OF MINORITIES, & PEACEFUL & LEGAL TRANSFER OF GOVERNING AURHORITY THROUGH DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS?

ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE & ISLAMIST IDEOLOGY:  THE HISTORICAL, CULTURAL & IDEOLOGICAL ROOTS OF WIDESPREAD & REGULAR DENIAL OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS & TRUE JUSTICE IN THE MUSLIM WORLD -- THE POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF ISLAMIC TYRANNY & INJUSTICE FOR WESTERN COUNTRIES, THE UNITED NATIONS, & INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS

ISLAMIC INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM, THE FOURTH WORLD WAR, & THE ISLAMIST ENEMY:  WHERE DID AL-QA'IDA COME FROM?  THE INTELLECTUAL & IDEOLOGICAL ORIGINS OF THE INTERNATIONAL TERRORIST MOVEMENT & THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- THE SAUDI DEBATE REGARDING THE "WESTERN CULTURAL ATTACK" ON ISLAM -- THE WAR IN AFGHANISTAN & THE LEGACY OF THE ARMED JIHAD -- RADICALIZING THE ISLAMIC DEFENSE AGAINST THE "WESTERN CULTURAL ATTACK" -- OSAMA BIN LADEN & 'ABDALLAH 'AZZAM -- BIN LADEN'S SYNTHESIS OF IDEOLOGY & PRACTICE

AL-MANAR:  MEDIA ORGAN OF ISLAMISM & JIHADISM -- PROPAGANDA & INCITEMENT ARM OF HEZBOLLAH WAGING PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST ISRAEL & SEEKING TO RALLY HEZBOLLAH'S ISLAMIST SUPPORTERS INSIDE LEBANON & THROUGHOUT THE MUSLIM WORLD -- OFFICIAL MOUTHPIECE OF AN ISLAMIST TERRORIST ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL -- A LEGITIMATE TARGET OF THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCES

THE LATEST ISRAELI "CEASE FIRE" IN THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT:  THE "CEASE FIRE" CONSIDERED IN THE BROADER CONTEXTS OF ISLAMIC HISTORY, THE MODERN RESURGENCE OF MILITANT ISLAM, & THE LONGTERM STRATEGY OF THE ISLAMISTS IN THE GLOBAL JIHAD THEY ARE WAGING AGAINST ISRAEL, THE U.S.A., & THE WEST -- WESTERN LEADERS' MISPERCEPTIONS & DELUSIONS THAT ARE VERY LIKELY TO CAUSE THE EVENTUAL DEFEAT & DESTRUCTION OF THE WEST IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR -- THE ONLY OPTIONS FOR THOSE NATIONS THAT COMPRISE WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  UNITE, CONFRONT, DEFEAT, & TOTALLY DESTROY THE FORCES OF ISLAMISM, OR FACE THE DECLINE, FALL, & EVENTUAL ERADICATION OF THE WEST & ITS CULTURE, INCLUDING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC SYSTEMS OF GOVERNANCE & BASIC JUDEO-CHRISTIAN VALUES & BELIEFS

LEBANON, ISRAEL, ISLAMIST TERRORISM, & WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & MIDDLE EASTERN TERRORISM IN THE BROADER CONTEXT OF THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST ISRAEL, AMERICA, & THE WEST -- THE ROLE OF IRAN'S ISLAMIST REGIME IN THE GLOBAL CONFLICT -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES, THROUGH COVERT COUNTERTERRORIST POLITICAL ACTION AS WELL AS OVERT MILITARY ACTION, TO BRING ABOUT THE DEFEAT & TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THEIR DEADLY ENEMIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

UNITED STATES FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR: HOW THE U.S.A. SHOULD FIGHT THE WAR ON TERRORISM & DEFEND ITSELD IN THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST -- HIGH TIME FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO REVOKE THE BAN ON ASSASSINATING TERRORIST LEADERS, SPONSORS OF TERRORISM, & OTHER DEADLY ENEMIES OF THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION

THE KINGDOM OF JORDAN, THE MIDDLE EAST, & THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  WHAT ROLE DID JORDAN PLAY IN THE EARLY STAGES OF THE ISRAELI-ARAB PEACE PROCESS? WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE JORDANIAN PEACE INITIATIVE OF 1960?  AS REGARDS PALESTINIAN REFUGEES & THEIR "RIGHT OF RETURN" TO ISRAEL, HOW DID THE POLICY OF JORDAN DIFFER FROM THAT OF OTHER ARAB LEAGUE COUNTRIES?  WHY DID KING HUSSEIN'S PLAN FOR AN ISRAELI-ARAB PEACE FAIL?

ISRAEL, AZERBAIJAN, & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS IN THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA:  THE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN ISRAEL & AZERBAIJAN -- THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PARTNERSHIP & ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA -- HOW FAR ARE AZERBAIJANI ELITES WILLING TO PURSUE TIES WITH ISRAEL? WHAT IS THE RELEVANCE OF THE BAKU-JERUSALEM RELATIONSHIP TO AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS?

THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  ISLAMISM VERSUS WESTERN CULTURE -- THE WEST'S STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL IN THE WORLDWIDE JIHAD THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- THE PROGRESSIVE WEAKENING OF THE WEST'S WILL TO SURVIVE -- THE WESTERN TENDENCY TO RESORT TO APPEASEMENT OF A VERY DANGEROUS ENEMY & THEREBY UNDERMINE THE WEST'S DEFENSES AGAINST THAT ENEMY -- ANEMIC REMNANTS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION DAILY EXIBITING LESS & LESS OF A DETERMINATION TO STOP, OR EVEN SLOW DOWN, THE ISLAMIST MOVEMENT SPREADING INSIDIOUSLY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, IN PURSUIT OF THE GOALS OF WORLD DOMINATION & DESTRUCTION OF WESTERN CULTURE

ARABIC & ARABISM, EDUCATION & POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION:  ARABIC LANGUAGE TRAINING COMBINED WITH INDOCTRINATION IN THE POLITICAL IDEOLOGY OF PAN-ARAB NATIONALISM -- INDOCTRINATING ARABIC LANGUAGE STUDENTS IN THE U.S.A. WITH A TENDENTIOUS PAN-ARAB NATIONALIST READING OF MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY -- PUSHING THE IDEA THAT ARAB IDENTITY TRUMPS LOCAL IDENTITIES & THAT RESPECT FOR MINORITY ETHNIC & SECTARIAN COMMUNITIES BETRAYS ARABISM

THE NATIONAL DEBATE OVER WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE CONTINUING CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST, & WHEN TO DO IT:  WHAT MUST BE DONE ABOUT ISLAMIST TERRORISM & STATE SPONSORS OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM?  WHEN MUST IT BE DONE?  SHOULD DECISIVE & THOROUGHGOING MILITARY ACTION BE TAKEN TO DEFEAT & TOTALLY DESTROY THE ISLAMIST ENEMIES OF ISRAEL & THE WEST?  SHOULD SUCH MILITARY ACTION BE TAKEN IMMEDIATELY, OR SHOULD ANOTHER ATTEMPT BE MADE TO APPEASE THE ISLAMISTS & THEREBY DELAY THE INEVITABLE?

THE BUSH DOCTRINE & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  SEEKING & SUPPORTING THE GROWTN OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS & INSTITUTIONS, WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF ENDING TYRANNY IN THE WORLD -- HOW HARD SHOULD THE U.S.A. PUSH CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST?  HOW MUCH EMPHASIS SHOULD BE PLACED ON THE POPULAR VOTE & DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS?  HOW SLOW OR FAST SHOULD BE THE TRANSFORMATION FROM DICTATORSHIP TO CONSTITUTIONAL REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY?  SHOULD THE U.S.A BE NEUTRAL IN MIDDLE EASTERN ELECTIONS?  HOW IMPORTANT IS POLITICAL STABILITY?  DO ELECTIONS MODERATE ISLAMISTS?  IS TURKEY A MODEL FOR DEMOCRATIZATION?  AS REGARDS ITS EFFORTS TO DEMOCRATIZE THE MIDDLE EAST, HOW SHOULD THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION BE GRADED?

THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, ISLAMIST TERRORISM, & ISRAEL'S POLICY OF TARGETED KILLING OF TERRORISTS:   THE VICTORY OF HAMAS IN THE PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS & SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT -- VINDICATION & RENEWAL OF ISRAEL'S TARGETED ASSASSINATION POLICY -- HIZBOLLAH'S OPENING OF A SECOND FRONT IN THE TERROR WAR AGAINST ISRAEL -- WHY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA SHOULD SUPPORT THE STATE OF ISRAEL IN ITS ENDEAVOR TO ROOT OUT & DESTROY TERRORIST ELEMENTS WHEREVER THEY MAY BE FOUND

WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE LONG & TROUBLED HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST & THE IDEA OF DISPATCHING AN INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING FORCE TO THE REGION -- THE IMPORTANT LESSON THAT THE STATE OF ISRAEL LEARNED, AS REGARDS TRUSTING INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPERS -- THE SAME LESSON THAT THE U.S.A. & THE WEST SHOULD HAVE LEARNED BY NOW -- THE FOLLY OF RELYING ON INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPERS TO END A WAR IN PROGRESS

IRAN, ARABS, & THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT:  THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE WIDER MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICT BETWEEN IRAN & THE ARABS -- CRACKS IN THE SOLIDARITY OF POLITICAL ISLAM -- SHIITES VERSUS SUNNIS -- IRAN'S IDEOLOGICAL COMMITMENT TO EXPORTING THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION & SPREADING IT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST -- ARAB LEADERS' PERCEPTION OF HEZBOLLAH AS AN ARM OF IRANIAN INFLUENCE WAGING A SECTARIAN WAR IN THE HEART OF THE MIDDLE EAST

THE MIDDLE EAST & THE ISLAMIST TERROR WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST THE STATE OF ISRAEL:  WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS OF AN ENDURING PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST?  IS THERE A ROLE FOR DIPLOMACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PROCESS?  TOTAL ANNIHILATION OF SUCH TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS AS HEZBOLLAH & HAMAS & SEVERE PUNISHMENT OF THEIR STATE SPONSORS MUST PRECEDE DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS TO ARRANGE A MIDDLE EAST PEACE

STATECRAFT & THE USE OF DIPLOMACY & DIALOGUE IN THE CONDUCT OF FOREIGN POLICY & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS:  WHY EFFECTIVE FOREIGN POLICY REQUIRES THAT DIPLOMACY & DIALOGUE WITH ADVERSARIES BE CARRIED ON WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF AN OVERARCHING STRATEGY -- HOW POORLY TIMED NEGOTIATIONS & MISPLACED CONFIDENCE IN AN ADVERSARY'S SINCERITY CAN HAMPER, RATHER THAN HASTEN, SOLUTIONS TO INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS -- THE NEED FOR THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO COME TO GRIPS WITH REALITY IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

THE MIDDLE EAST & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY:  PROMOTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES -- WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO THE ANNOUNCED U.S. GOVERNMENT POLICY TO SEEK & SUPPORT THE GROWTH OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS & INSTITUTIONS IN EVERY NATION & CULTURE, WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF ENDING TYRANNY IN THE WORLD?

THE ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE COUNTERTERRORISM POLICY:  ELIMINATE IDEOLOGUES, ISOLATE THEM, OR MARGINALIZE THEM TO THE POINT OF IMPOTENCE -- RAISE THE COST OF TERRORISM BEYOND THE ENDURANCE OF TERRORISTS -- EMPLOY FORCEFUL & DISRUPTIVE MEASURES AGAINST TERRORISTS, TERRORIST GROUPS, & STATES THAT SPONSOR & SUPPORT TERRORISM -- CREATE & MAINTAIN AN EXCEEDINGLY HOSTILE & DESTRUCTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR TERRORISM & ITS SUPPORTERS

A HISTORY OF THE THIRD WORLD WAR:  THE COLD WAR & THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE EAST -- THE ROLE OF THE KGB IN THE SOVIET UNION'S ENDEAVOR TO GAIN INFLUENCE IN & CONTROL OF THE MIDDLE EAST & USE IT TO UNDERMINE & CONQUER THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- HOW & WHY THE KGB'S EFFORTS ENDED LARGELY IN FAILURE -- IN WHAT WAY DID THE EFFORTS SUCCEED?

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY & PROMOTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  HOW & WHY THE AMERICAN & EUROPEAN APPROACHES TO MIDDLE EAST DEMOCRATIZATION DIFFER -- EVOLVING EUROPEAN UNION POLICY TOWARD THE MIDDLE EAST --THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S MIDDLE EAST POLICY -- THE POSSIBILITY OF CONVERGENCE OF EUROPEAN & AMERICAN POLICY

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY RELATING TO GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS OPERATING IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE U.S. POLICY OF SUPPORTING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS IN MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRIES, PURSUING A STRATEGY AIMED AT REPLACING OPPRESSIVE, AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL REGIMES IN THOSE COUNTRIES WITH STABLE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES -- CAN SUCH A POLICY & STRATEGY WORK?  CAN CONSTITUTIONALISM, THE RULE OF LAW, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF GOVERNING POWER AMONG COMPETING POLITICAL ELITES, & EFFECTIVE GUARANTEE & PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS BE BROUGHT TO THE MIDDLE EAST & MADE TO LAST?

ISLAMISM, JIHADISM, & THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEM & THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA:  TO WHAT DEGREE HAVE SAUDI SOURCES PROVIDED FUNDING & SUPPORT FOR MILITANT ISLAM & THE TERROR WAR IT IS WAGING AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST? TO WHAT EXTENT HAVE SAUDI OFFICIALS REALLY COOPERATED WITH U.S. AGENCIES ENGAGED IN EFFORTS TO ASCERTAIN THE SOURCES OF FUNDING & SUPPORT OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM & THE JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & WESTERN CIVILIZATION? THE SEPTEMBER 16, 2005, REPORT OF THE U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE

THE FOURTH WORLD WAR & RELATIONS BETWEEN THE KINGDOM OF SAUDI ARABIA & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:  INCREASED SCRUTINY OF U.S.-SAUDI TIES & SAUDI SUPPORT OF ISLAMISM -- ARE U.S.-SAUDI RELATIONS SOLID?  WHO CONTROLS SAUDI ARABIA?  SAUDI FOREIGN POLICY -- HOW HELPFUL IS SAUDI INFLUENCE TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IN SAFEGUARDING & PROMOTING AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST, PARTICULARLY AS REGARDS SYRIAN & IRANIAN INTERFERENCE IN LEBANON, THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, & THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR CHALLENGE?  HOW IMPORTANT IS PETROLEUM TO THE BILATERAL U.S.-SAUDI RELATIONSHIP?

ARAB CULTURE & MILITANT ISLAM: THE ARAB MUSLIM MENTALITY AS THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST AMERICA, WESTERN CIVILIZATION, & JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CULTURE -- WHAT OUR CENTRAL GOAL MUST BE IN FIGHTING THE WAR ON ISLAMIST TERRORISM: OUR TOTAL VICTORY -- THE JIHADIST ENEMY'S TOTAL DEFEAT & ANNIHILATION -- COMPLETE ERADICATION OF THE CULTURE THAT IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE FOURTH WORLD WAR

POLITICS & POLITICAL CULTURE IN THE ARAB WORLD:  THE OBSTACLES THAT MUST BE CONFRONTED & OVERCOME BY REFORM-MINDED ARABS WHO ADVOVATE FOR THEIR COUNTRIES CONSTITUTIONALISM, THE RULE OF LAW, REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, RELIGIOUS TOLERATION, & CONSTITUTIONAL GUARANTEE & PROTECTION OF THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS & LIBERTIES OF THE INDIVIDUAL PERSON -- THE STRATEGIES THAT CONSTITUTIONALISTS & DEMOCRATIC REFORMERS IN THE ARAB WORLD HAVE HAD TO CRAFT IN ORDER TO NAVIGATE THE MINEFIELD OF ARAB POLITICAL OPINION & RHETORIC -- ARAB NATIONALISM & ISLAMISM AS OBSTACLES TO CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY IN THE MIDDLE EAST

POLITICAL CORRUPTION:  THE REAL THREAT TO POLITICAL REFORM & STABILITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- POLITICAL CORRUPTION AS THE GREATEST OBSTACLE TO CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- CORRUPTION AS A WORSENING PROBLEM THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST

MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS & AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY:  MIDDLE EASTERN SOCIETIES, THEIR POLITICAL HISTORY, THEIR POLITICAL LEADERS, & THEIR RELATIONS WITH THE U.S.A. -- AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN SOUTHWEST & CENTRAL ASIA & IN NORTH AFRICA -- IRAQ, IRAN, KURDISTAN, SYRIA, LIBYA, & SOUTH YEMEN

THE RULE OF LAW & ACCOUNTABILITY OF GOVERNMENT OFFICEHOLDERS TO THE PEOPLE THEY GOVERN:  TWO CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL CONCEPTS THAT ARE SPREADING THROUGHOUT THE ARAB WORLD -- SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RULERS & RULED OCCURRING IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE PATH BEING PAVED FOR THE EVENTUAL ADVENT OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN THE ARAB WORLD

THE MIDDLE EAST & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY:  REGIME CHANGE IN IRAQ & PROSPECTS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF STABLE & ENDURING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEMS THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EASTERN REGION -- ENHANCING DEMOCRATIZATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  WHAT THE U.S.A. & THE WEST SHOULD & SHOULD NOT DO

FRANCE, ISLAM, & THE MIDDLE EAST:  THE MIDDLE EASTERN POLICY OF FRANCE UNDER THE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP OF JACQUES CHIRAC -- A PATTERN OF EMBRACING MIDDLE EASTERN RULERS HOSTILE TO INTERNATIONAL NORMS OF BEHAVIOR & IN CONFLICT WITH WESTERN CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACIES -- THE EVOLUTION OF CHIRAC'S PRO-ARAB, PRO-ISLAMIST POLICY & THE MOTIVATIONS DRIVING THAT POLICY -- WHAT WILL BE THE LEGACY OF THE CHIRAC DOCTRINE?

THE MIDDLE EAST & UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY:  THE BUSH DOCTRINE -- DECLARATION THAT IT IS U.S. POLICY TO SEEK & SUPPORT CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENTS & INSTITUTIONS IN EVERY NATION & CULTURE, WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF ENDING TYRANNY IN THE WORLD -- DEATH OF THE BUSH DOCTRINE THROUGH INEPTNESS & LACK OF WILL

THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS:  LACK OF INTELLECTUAL HONESTY, EMPIRICAL RIGOR, & TRUE SCHOLARSHIP IN THE COUNCIL'S EXAMINATION & ANALYSIS OF THE SITUATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST & THE PROBLEMS & CHALLENGES THE SITUATION CREATES FOR THE CONDUCT OF UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY & THE PROTECTION OF AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS & SECURITY -- AVOIDANCE OF RESEARCH & DEBATE, WISHFUL THINKING, ADHERENCE TO IDEOLOGY, DISSEMINATION OF PROPAGANDA, & PURSUIT OF A POLITICAL AGENDA -- PUBLICATION OF ARTICLES & REPORTS THAT OPPOSE U.S. UNILATERALISM & MILITARY ACTION, CONDEMN THE STATE OF ISRAEL FOR ITS DEFENSIVE MEASURES AGAINST ISLAMIC TERRORISM, EXONERATE THE PALESTINIAN ARAB LEADERSHIP OF THEIR SPONSORSHIP OF TERRORISM, SUPPORT ENGAGEMENT WITH & APPEASEMENT OF REJECTIONIST STATES & LEADERS, & DOWNPLAY THE THREAT OF RADICAL ISLAM

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S MIDDLE EASTERN POLICY & RELATIONS BETWEEN EGYPT & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:   CHANGING REALITIES & THE DECLINING STRATEGIC RELEVANCE OF EGYPT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AS BEING AT THE ROOT OF THE GROWING TENSION BETWEEN EGYPT & THE U.S.A. -- THE CRITICAL QUESTION:  HAVE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO NATION-STATES GROWN TO SUCH A DEGREE THAT THEY OVERRULE THE POSSIBILITY OF A MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL U.S.-EGYPTIAN BILATERAL RELATIONSHIP CONTINUING INTO THE FUTURE?

KING ADDULLAH II BIN AL HUSSEIN OF JORDAN DESCRIBES HIS CONCERNS ABOUT IRAQ & IRAN, EXPLAINS HIS STRATEGY TO COUNTER RADICAL ISLAM, & OUTLINES HIS HOPES FOR PEACE BETWEEN ISRAEL & THE ARABS

THE RENAISSANCE IN RELATIONS BETWEEN LIBYA & THE U.S.A.:  WHAT IMPACT IS THE CHANGING RELATIONSHIP HAVING ON THE AUTHORITARIAN POLITICAL REGIME OF MU'AMMAR AL-QADHAFI?  IS THE CHANGE FURTHERING TRANSITION FROM TYRANNICAL DICTATORSHIP & REPRESSION TO CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM?  THE EVIDENCE INDICATES OTHERWISE

HUME ALEXANDER HORAN:  AMERICAN STATESMAN & SCHOLAR & PERHAPS THE MOST ACCOMPLISHED ARABIC LINGUIST TO SERVE IN THE UNITED STATES FOREIGN SERVICE -- MICHAEL RUBIN'S COMMENTARY & HORAN'S OBSERVATIONS, BASED ON HIS EXPERIENCE WORKING FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT AS A FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICER & DIPOLOMAT IN THE ARAB WORLD

FREEDOM OF SPEECH:  FREEDOM TO SPEAK ONE'S MIND & FREEDOM TO SPEAK WHATEVER LANGUAGE COMES MOST READILY TO ONE'S LIPS -- FREEDOM SORELY LACKING IN THE MIDDLE EAST

SYRIA, LEBANON, & THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME, ITS MILITARY OCCUPATION & SUBJUGATION OF LEBANON, & HOW THE SYRIAN REGIME HAS TURNED LEBANON INTO A MAJOR CENTER FOR TRAINING ISLAMIC TERRORISTS & FOR FUNDING & SUPPORT OF THE WAR WHICH THE ISLAMISTS & BAATHISTS ARE WAGING TO INSURE THAT THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST REMAINS THE SAME SORRY PLACE IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN SINCE THE FIRST WORLD WAR & THE COLLAPSE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

SAUDI ARABIA, THE MIDDLE EAST, & THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & WESTERN CIVILIZATION:  JUST HOW "FRIENDLY" ARE THE SAUDIS TO THE U.S.A. & THE WEST?

THE LIBYAN POLITICAL REGIME OF MUAMMAR QADDAFI -- STILL A TYRANNICAL & OPPRESSIVE DICTATORSHIP UNDER WHICH THERE IS NO GUARANTEE OR PROTECTION OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS:  AMPLE REASON FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TO RECONSIDER ITS DETERMINATION TO EMBRACE QADDAFI AS AN AMERICAN ALLY IN THE ARAB WORLD

CRITICISM OF WESTERN POLITICS & POPULAR CULTURE EMPLOYED TO EXPLAIN THE PROBLEMS & SHORTCOMINGS OF ARABS, MUSLIMS, & THE MIDDLE EAST -- PROPAGANDA INTENDED TO CONCEAL THE DEFICIENCIES OF MIDDLE EASTERN ISLAMIC CULTURE, OR TO BLAME THEM ON AMERICA & THE WEST:  REINFORCING THE MASS DELLUSIONS & PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSE MECHANISMS THAT BLIND MIDDLE EASTERNERS TO THEIR FUNDAMENTAL CULTURAL INFERIORITY, ABYSMAL IGNORANCE, UTTER BACKWARDNESS, & VICIOUS BARBARISM

THE ELECTION HELD IN SPAIN ON SUNDAY, MARCH 14, 2004:  THE SPANISH VOTERS DECIDED TO PUT THE LEFTWING SOCIALISTS IN POWER & TO WITHDRAW FROM THE WAR TO DEFEND WESTERN CIVILIZATION AGAINST THE FORCES OF BARBARISM & ISLAMIST TERRORISM -- SEEKING TO AVOID FURTHER TERROR ATTACKS ON THE PART OF FANATICS DRIVEN BY MILITANT ISLAM & THE ARAB MINDSET

AL-MANAR -- A LEBANON-BASED & IRANIAN-SUPPORTED TELEVISION STATION CONTROLLED BY THE HIZBULLAH TERRORIST ORGANIZATION & FINE-TUNED TO PRESENT A MILITANTLY ISLAMIST WORLDVIEW & PROMOTE AN EXTREMELY VIOLENT & PROFOUNDLY ANTI-WESTERN POLITICAL AGENDA:  THE ORIGINS & DEVELOPMENT OF AL-MANAR, THE NATURE OF ITS MESSAGE, & WHAT THE U.S.A. SHOULD DO TO MITIGATE ITS EFFECTS

INJECTING BALANCE, REALISM, & TRUTH INTO THE STUDY, ANALYSIS, & DISCUSSION OF INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS & ISSUES GROWING OUT OF ISLAMIC & MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS -- DANIEL PIPE'S REVIEW OF THE ORIGINS, DEVELOPMENT, EFFORTS, & ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE MIDDLE EAST FORUM

THE ARABS OF THE MIDDLE EAST:  THEIR IRRATIONAL, BONE-DEEP HATRED OF THE WEST & ITS JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION, THEIR BARBARIC TERRORIST ATTACKS AGAINST THE WEST & WESTERN INTERESTS, & THE ABSOLUTE NECESSITY OF USING MILITARY POWER TO SUPPRESS THE ARABS' WORST INSTINCTS & THEREBY ENSURE GREATER SAFETY FOR THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES

THE ARABS' BLEAK FUTURE -- THE DECADENCE & DECLINE OF THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST:  FOCUS ON THE COMPENSATIONS OF THE NEXT WORLD WILL DO NOTHING TO ALTER THE ARABS' PREDICAMENT IN THIS WORLD

THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume V, Issue # 278, November 17, 2003

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

THE DECLINE OF THE ARABS

By Asher Susser

LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:

American Foreign Policy -- Constitutional Democracy:
U.S. Promotion of Constitutional Democracy in Foreign Countries

Middle East -- Arabs, Arab States, & Their Middle Eastern Neighbors

North Africa -- The Arab States of Islamic North Africa

The Middle East & the Problem of Iraq
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The Problem of Rogue States:
Iraq as a Case History

National Strategy for Victory in Iraq

The Middle East & the Problem of Iran

Egypt, Arabs, & the Middle East

Tunisia, Islamic North Africa, & the Arab World

The Middle East & the Problem of Syria

The Middle East -- Lebanon as a Geopolitical Problem

Turkey, the Middle East, & the U.S.A.

Israel & the Arabs -- The Israeli-Arab Conflict

Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.

Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization

Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies

Counterterrorism & U.S. National Security

U.S. National Security Strategy




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