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

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

THE PROBLEM WITH U.S. RATIFICATION OF & COMPLIANCE WITH A TREATY BANNING FUTURE NUCLEAR TESTS & REDUCING AMERICA'S ARSENAL OF OPERATIONAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS:  SUCH A TREATY WOULD TAKE THE U.S.A. DOWN A DANGEROUS PATH.  FOR SIXTY-FIVE YEARS, THE VERY EXISTENCE OF THE AMERICAN NATION HAS DEPENDED UPON A STRONG NUCLEAR DETERRENT.  THE ANTI-NUCLEAR TREATY WOULD WIPE OUT THIS PROVEN DEFENSE POLICY, REPLACING IT WITH A POLICY OF WEAKNESS.

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

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

A GROSS STRATEGIC FAILURE:  AMERICA'S FAILURE TO PREPARE ITSELF AGAINST A BALLISTIC MISSILE ATTACK -- THE THREAT OF NUCLEAR ATTACK OR NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL POSED BY RUSSIA, CHINA, IRAN, OR THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST TERROR NETWORK -- WHAT AN EMP ATTACK ON THE U.S.A. WOULD MEAN -- THE MOST EFFECTIVE FORM OF MISSILE DEFENSE -- DO WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY TO BUILD & MAINTAIN SUCH A MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM?  DO WE HAVE THE POLITICAL WILL?

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

THE EMERGENCE OF THE NUCLEAR AGE & THE PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS: NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST -- WHY SOVEREIGN STATES HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS -- ISLAMIST IRAN AS A NUCLEAR THREAT TO ISRAEL & THE U.S.A. -- WHY BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA'S IDEA OF "A GLOBAL BAN ON THE PRODUCTION OF FISSILE MATERIAL FOR WEAPONS" WILL NOT WORK -- WHY NUCLEAR WEAPONS CANNOT BE EFFECTIVELY OUTLAWED -- WHY NON-PROLIFERATION TREATIES & UNITED NATIONS SANCTIONS ARE USELESS -- THE FATAL FLAW IN THE THEORY OF MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION -- HOW AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY WOULD UNDERMINE U.S. MILITARY DEFENSE & NATIONAL SECURITY

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

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

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 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

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

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

PUBLIC STATEMENTS, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, IRANIAN WAR PLANS, & WHAT THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES SHOULD DO ABOUT IT:  THE ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME IN IRAN PUBLICLY ANNOUNCES ITS PLANS TO ACQUIRE FULLY OPERATIONAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS & USE THEM AGAINST ISRAEL, BRITAIN, & AMERICA -- MUST WE WAIT FOR MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD TO DO WHAT HE SAYS HE INTENDS TO DO?  MUST WE WAIT AROUND FOR IRAN TO DEVELOP A NUCLEAR MILITARY CAPABILITY & LAUNCH NUCLEAR ATTACKS AGAINST US?

UNITED STATES DIPLOMACY & NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROLIFERATION:  U.S. & WESTERN DIPLOMATIC ENGAGEMENT WITH NORTH KOREA & IRAN -- HOW & WHY THE ENGAGEMENT PROCESS HAS FAILED & CONTINUES TO FAIL TO PREVENT ROGUE POLITICAL REGIMES FROM ACQUIRIMNG NUCLEAR MILITARY CAPABILITIES

ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-WESTERNISM, ISLAMISM, & IRAN'S DETERMINATION TO DEVELOP & EMPLOY A NUCLEAR MILITARY CAPABILITY:  THE ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME OF IRAN & ITS PLAN TO PERPETRATE A NEW & GREATER HOLOCAUST -- THE ROLE INTENDED FOR A NUCLEAR IRAN IN THE ISLAMIST JIHAD AGAINST ISRAEL, EUROPE, THE WEST, & JUDEO-CHRISTIAN CIVILIZATION -- THE ONLY RATIONAL CONCLUSION TO BE DRAWN FROM THE HISTORY OF IRAN, ISLAM, & ANTI-SEMITISM:  THE NECESSITY OF DECISIVE MILITARY ACTION AGAINST THE BARBARIANS WHO THREATEN US

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY & THE BUSH II PRESIDENCY:  REVERSING THE COURSE OF U.S. FOREIGN POLICY -- THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION, WHILE STILL SPEAKING ABOUT OPPOSING NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROLIFERATION, SPREADING CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & PROSECUTING THE WAR AGAINST ISLAMIST TERRFORISM, INCREASINGLY CHARTS THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE & PAPER COMPROMISE SO DOMINANT DURING THE PRESIDENCY OF WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON -- SEEKING TO PLEASE DIPLOMATS & OTHER INTERNATIONALIST-MINDED BUREAUCRATS, WHILE JEOPARDIZING AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY

RELATIONS BETWEEN THE WEST & IRAN:  THE INADEQUACY OF DIPLOMACY AS THE MEANS TO INDUCE IRAN'S ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME TO END ITS EFFORTS TO DEVELOP NUCLEAR WEAPONS -- IF IRAN CONTINUES TO DEFY THE WEST, THE LATTER SHOULD CONSIDER MILITARY STRIKES & TARGETED SANCTIONS, AS WELL AS INCREASE ITS SUPPORT OF INDEPENDENT CIVIL SOCIETY & DISSIDENT GROUPS IN IRAN -- THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC SHOULD BE MADE ACCPONTABLE TO THE IRANIAN PEOPLE

THE COLLAPSE OF EUROPE'S IRAN POLICY:  THE FAILURE OF EUROPE'S POLICY OF RELYING ON TRADE, RATHER THAN CONFRONTATION OR SANCTIONS, TO REVERSE THE IRANIAN POLITICAL REGIME'S SPONSORSHIP OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM, ITS VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS, & ITS ENDEAVOR TO DEVELOP A NUCLEAR MILITARY CAPABILITY -- THE E3 FOREIGN MINISTERS & THE EUROPEAN UNION HIGH REPRESENTATIVE ADMIT THAT EUROPE'S POLICY OF ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAN HAS FAILED

A NUCLEAR IRAN:  THREAT TO WORLD PEACE & INTERNATIONAL SECURITY -- WHY DIPLOMACY & INTERNATIONAL TRADE WILL NOT SOLVE THE PROBLEM -- THE NATURE OF ISLAMIC REPUBLIC IDEOLOGY & ITS ROLE IN CREATING & SUSTAINING THE IRANIAN REGIME'S DETERMINATION TO BECOME A NUCLEAR POWER & THREATEN THE WORLD -- WHAT MUST BE DONE TO ELIMINATE THE THREAT

THE CURRENT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIBYA & THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:  HAS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT'S SUCCESS IN RESOLVING ITS MOST VITAL DIFFERENCES WITH THE MU'AMMAR QADHAFI POLITICAL REGIME IN LIBYA BEEN THE RESULT OF A ROBUST U.S. POLICY OF FORCE PROJECTION IN IRAQ?  WOULD SIMILAR FORCE PROJECTION BY THE U.S.A. CREATE COMPARABLE COMPLIANCE FROM OTHER HOSTILE REGIMES, SUCH AS THOSE IN SYRIA, IRAN, & NORTH KOREA?

SYRIA AS A CONTINUING PROBLEM FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:  THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME STILL IN THE CROSS HAIRS OF U.S. DEFENSE & INTELLIGENCE CONCERN -- SYRIAN ATTEMPTS TO ACQUIRE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, PARTICULARLY SOPHISTICATED SURFACE-TO-SURFACE BALLISTIC MISSILES -- HIGH PROBABILITY THAT SYRIA NOW POSSESSES BIOLOGICAL & CHEMICAL WEAPONS, AS WELL AS NUCLEAR SECRETS -- THE SYRIAN REGIME'S DEMONSTRATED WILLINGNESS TO USE TERRORISM TO ADVANCE ITS GEOPOLITICAL GOALS

U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY:  U.S. SENATOR JON KYLE'S POSITIONS ON U.S. MILITARY ACTION IN IRAQ, EFFORTS OF ROGUE STATES TO ACQUIRE & USE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, OUR NEED TO CONTINUE SUPPORTING & EQUIPPING AMERICA'S ARMED FORCES, & ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM OF SHORTFALLS IN U.S. INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITIES

ARMS CONTROL & THE GROWING PROBLEM OF PROLIFERATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS & OTHER WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION:  IS THE "COUNTER-PROLIFERATION" POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT REALLY EFFECTIVE?

UNITED STATES FOREIGN & NATIONAL-SECURITY POLICY VIS-A-VIS THE CURRENT WORLDWIDE THREAT -- THE CHALLENGES & PROBLEMS THAT THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES ARE FACING IN THE CHANGING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY:  THE ANALYSIS OF GEORGE J. TENET, U.S. DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE

NORTH KOREA, THE DICTATORSHIP OF KIM JONG IL, & THE DEVELOPMENT & SALE OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION-- A COMBINATION CONSTITUTING A SERIOUS & CONTINUING THREAT TO INTERNATIONAL PEACE & SECURITY:  TESTING THE LIMITS OF U.S. & ALLIED PA- TIENCE

SYRIA -- ROGUE STATE, ENEMY OF THE U.S.A., SPONSOR OF TERRORISM, MAJOR MISCHIEF MAKER IN THE FESTERING MIDDLE EAST, & DEVELOPER/ACQUIRER OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION & BALLISTIC MISSILE DELIVERY SYSTEMS:  WHY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT IS CONCERNED ABOUT SYRIA'S WMD & MISSILE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS