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?

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION & U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY & FOREIGN POLICY IN AFGHANISTAN:  PRESIDENT OBAMA'S PLAN TO COMBAT AFGHANISTAN'S ESCALATING INSURGENCY, EMPOWER ITS GOVERNMENT, ENCOURAGE A POLITICAL RESOLUTION OF THE CONFLICT & SECURE THE COOPERATION OF NEIGHBORING PAKISTAN, ALL IN TIME FOR U.S. TROOPS TO WITHDRAW BY THE END OF 2014 -- WHAT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION MUST DO, IF IT REALLY WANTS TO SUCCEED IN AFGHANISTAN & PREVENT A TALIBAN TAKEOVER OF THE COUNTRY -- THE ISSUE OF AFGHAN SOVEREIGNTY

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.

GREECE, GREEK ISLANDS, CYPRUS, ISRAEL, TURKEY, & MIDDLE EASTERN GEOPOLITICS:  KASTELORIZO, EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONES, & MASSIVE OFF-SHORE GAS & OIL DISCOVERIES -- THE EMERGING ALLIANCE OF GREECE, CYPRUS, & ISRAEL -- MAKING IT POSSIBLE TO TRANSPORT CYPRIOT & ISRAELI NATURAL GAS OR ELECTRICITY TO WESTERN EUROPE WITHOUT TURKEY'S PERMISSION -- HEIGHTENED TURKISH AGGRESSIVENESS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

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.

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION OF THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  A DECADE OF THE ISLAMIST TERROR WAR WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- THE EXISTENCE OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM CALLED INTO QUESTION BY THE SPEAKERS PARTICIPATING IN THE DISCUSSION -- THE SPEAKERS ACTING AS IF THE ISLAMIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, NEVER OCCURRED -- THE EVENTS OF 9-11 WHITEWASHED -- AMERICA BASHED -- COUNTRIES THAT HARBOR ISLAMIST TERRORISTS IGNORED -- THE U.S.A.'S DETENTION PROGRAM ABROAD CALLED INTO QUESTION -- ISLAMIC TERRORISM DESCRIBED AS AN IMAGINARY MONSTER CREATED BY THE WEST IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE WORLD DOMINATION

MANIPULATION OF AMERICAN DOMESTIC POLITICS BY THE IRANIAN ISLAMIST REGIME:  DEFEAT OF JAMES EARL CARTER IN HIS BID FOR RE-ELECTION IN THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1980 -- THE TWO POTENTIAL ROLES THAT IRAN HAS IN BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA' S CURRENT CAMPAIGN FOR RE-ELECTION AS PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A. -- IRAN AS DISRUPTER IN IRAQ -- IRAN AS TARGET OF U.S. MILITARY ATTACKS -- WHO PUT PRESIDENT OBAMA IN THIS AWKWARD POSITION?

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.

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.

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 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.

AN APPRAISAL OF MU'AMMAR AL-QADDAFI'S FORTY-TWO-YEAR RULE OF LIBYA:  FAILURE OF QADDAFI TO REALIZE HIS DREAM OF UNIFYING ALL ARAB COUNTRIES INTO A SINGLE ARAB NATION-STATE, & THEN CONSOLIDATING THE ENTIRE MUSLIM WORLD INTO ONE UNIFIED ISLAMIC CALIPHATE -- HIS KEY ROLE IN THE INCREASE IN ENERGY PRICES THAT BEGAN IN 1972 & CONTINUES TO THIS DAY -- KICK ING OFF THE ISLAMIC REVIVAL THAT ALSO CONTINUES -- UNSUCCESSFUL ATTEMPTS TO SUBVERT THE GOVERNMENTS OF OTHER COUNTRIES -- A TURN TOWARD AFRICA & AN AMBITION TO DEVELOP WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION -- GIVING UP ON HIS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS -- THE BENGHAZI REBELLION, WHEN QADDAFI, IN RETREAT, REVERTED TO THE EXPLICIT BRUTALITY & VICIOUSNESS OF HIS EARLIER RULE -- LIBYANS IN GREAT NUMBERS REJECTING QADDAFI, HIS FAMILY, HIS REGIME, & HIS LEGACY

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.?

ISLAMIC TEACHINGS & ISLAMIC TERRORISM:  WHAT MUSLIM DOCTRINES SO UNEQUIVOCALLY TEACH CONCERNING THE JIHAD & NON-MUSLIMS, TELLINGLY KNOWN AS "INFIDELS" -- WHY WESTERN RELATIVISTS & SECULARISTS CANNOT BE DEPENDED UPON TO ACCURATELY ANALYZE OR UNDERSTAND ISLAMISM & THE ISLAMISTS, CONSIDERING THE INABILITY OF THE FORMER TO TAKE RELIGION SERIOUSLY OR FATHOM THE IMPORTANCE OF DOCTRINE TO TRUE BELIEVERS, ESPECIALLY HIGHLY POLITICIZED RELIGIOUS FANATICS -- THE TENDENCY OF RELATIVISTS & SECULARISTS TO PROJECT THEIR FUZZYHEADED, INDECISIVE WORLDVIEW ONTO THE OPPOSING FORCE EQUIPPED WITH A DECISIVE WORLDVIEW, MUCH, IRONICALLY, TO THE DETRIMENT OF SECULAR VIEWS & INSTITUTIONS -- FAILURE TO KNOW THY ENEMY

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

AN ISLAMIST LEADER PUTTING INTO PRACTICE ISLAM'S NOTORIOUS DOCTRINES OF DECEPTION: ACTING IN ACCORDANCE WITH DOCTRINES THAT PERMIT MUSLIMS TO DECEIVE IN ORDER TO EMPOWER ISLAM -- TELLING LIES & ENGAGING IN OTHER KINDS OF DECEPTIVE BEHAVIOR FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADVANCING ISLAM -- PRECISELY WHAT ISLAMIST ORGANIZATIONS & THEIR LEADERS ARE ALL ABOUT -- IF TOP ISLAMIST LEADERS HAVE NO PROBLEM LYING ABOUT FRIVOLOUS THINGS TO FELLOW MUSLIMS, WHILE SWEARING TO GOD, HOW TRUSTWORTHY ARE ANY OF THEIR WORDS & PROMISES TO WESTERN & ISRAELI LEADERS, THAT IS, THE HATED INFIDELS?

TRIPOLI:  IS THE NORTHERN LEBANESE CITY A BASE FOR ISLAMISTS?  DOES THE CITY POSE A DIRECT THREAT TO SYRIAN SECURITY?  TRIPOLI'S HOPELESSLY FRAGMENTED & PRIMARILY NON-COMBATIVE SALAFI MOVEMENT -- THE CITY'S PROLONGED POLITICAL MARGINALIZATION & ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION -- TRIPOLI'S TRANSITION FROM TOLERATION OF RELIGIOUS & CULTURAL DIVERSITY TO ISLAMISM, JIHADISM, & MARIONITE MILITARIZATION -- THE LEBANESE CIVIL WAR & ITS AFTERMATH -- SUBSEQUENT CONFLICT -- THE CURRENT POLITICAL & ECONOMIC CONDITION OF TRIPOLI -- WHAT IS REQUIRED TO DECONSTRUCT THE PHENOMENON OF TRIPOLI'S ISLAMIC RADICALISM?

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

ANOTHER ANTI-WESTERN & ANTI-AMERICAN DIATRIBE EMANATING FROM ACADEMIA: PROMOTING FEAR OF "ISLAMOPHOBIA," INSTEAD OF DELIVERING A LECTURE ON SHARIA (ISLAMIC LAW) -- CLAIMING THAT MUSLIMS ARE THE REAL VICTIMS OF "HATE CRIMES," THAT MUSLIMS ARE THREATENED BY ISLAMOPHOBIA IN THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- PAINTING THE WESTERN WORLD AS RACIST & ETHNOCENTRIC

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.

INDIAN FOREIGN & REGIONAL SECURITY POLICY IN CENTRAL & SOUTH ASIA:  INDIA'S STRATEGIC GOALS, AS REGARDS AFGHANISTAN & PAKISTAN:  CONTAINMENT OF ISLAMIST EXTREMISM -- USE OF AFGHANISTAN AS A GATEWAY TO THE ENERGY-RICH & STRATEGICALLY IMPORTANT CENTRAL ASIAN REGION -- ASSERTION OF INDIA'S REGIONAL PREEMINENCE IN CENTRAL & SOUTH ASIA -- THE MOST IMPORTANT GOAL FOR THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT:  PREVENTION OF PAKISTAN FROM REGAINING ITS CENTRAL ROLE IN AFGHAN AFFAIRS -- WHY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT SHOULD TAKE INDIAN CONCERNS INTO ACCOUNT, AS THE AFGHAN ENDGAME LOOMS LARGER

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

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?

LEBANON & THE POWER STRUGGLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  LEBANON'S STRUGGLE FOR SOVEREIGNTY -- SYRIAN INTERVENTION INTO LEBANESE POLITICS -- SYRIA'S WITHDRAWAL FROM & RETURN TO LEBANON -- THE IMPACT ON LEBANON OF THE ASCENDANCY OF IRAN & ITS ARAB PROXIES -- LEBANON'S CURRENT POLITICAL SITUATION, DOMESTICALLY & INTERNATIONALLY -- THE ROLE OF SAUDI ARABIA IN UNDERMINING THE STRUGGLE FOR LEBANESE SOVEREIGNTY & RETURNING LEBANON TO THE ERA OF SYRIAN DOMINATION

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

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 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

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

ISLAM AS A TROUBLED & TROUBLING CULTURAL UNIT IN THE MODERN WORLD:  THE ISLAMICATE BURDENED BY A SENSE OF ITS PAST SUCCESS & POWER -- THE TRAUMA OF MODERNITY ACUTELY FELT BY MUSLIMS -- THE MUSLIM PERCEPTION OF BEING CHALLENGED & THREATENED BY THE WEST, WHICH SURGED AHEAD IN MILITARY, ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, CULTURAL, SCIENTIFIC, & TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS DURING THE LONG PERIOD OF MUSLIM STAGNATION & DECLINE -- MUSLIMS SEEKING AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION, "WHAT WENT WRONG WITH THE ISLAMICATE & HOW ARE MUSLIMS TO GO ABOUT FIXING IT?" -- THE VIABILITY OF THE ISLAMIST APPROACH AS A LONGTERM SOLUTION TO THE KEY PROBLEM OF ISLAMIC SOCIETY

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

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.

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?

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

WHAT GAVE RISE TO THE ISLAMIST FIFTH COLUMN IN EUROPE:  HOW THE U.S.A., BRITAIN, & THE NAZIS SET THE STAGE FOR ISLAMIST DOMINATION OF EUROPEAN MUSLIMS -- THE FUTILITY OF WESTERN GOVERNMENTS ALLYING WITH THE ISLAMISTS -- WHAT RECENT HISTORY TEACHES, AS REGARDS FACILITATING, ASSISTING, & STRENGTHENING ISLAMIST GROUPS & NETWORKS

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

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.

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

AMERICAN POLITICS, THE POLITICAL LEFT, & LACK OF HOMELAND SECURITY IN THE U.S.A.:  THE FLAWED NATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA & GAPING HOLES IN THE U.S. INTERNAL SECURITY SYSTEM -- THE BLATANT INCOPETENCE & CALLOUS INDIFFERENCE OF THE OBAMA WHITE HOUSE, IN THE FACE OF THE THREAT OF JIHADI TERRORISM -- ENSURING THE SAFETY OF AMERICAN & INTERNATIONAL TRAVELERS IN U.S. AIRPORTS NOT NEARLY AS IMPORTANT AS ACHIEVING THE STATIST, SOCIALIST, & ENVIRONMENTALIST OBJECTIVES OF THE LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICAL AGENDA

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

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

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.

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT'S DEAL INVOLVING RELEASE OF THE LOCKERBIE BOMBER FROM PRISION & HIS RETURN TO LIBYA:  A SHATTERING OF BRITAIN'S "SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP" WITH THE U.S.A. -- BRITISH PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN'S CLUMSY & TRANSPARENT ATTEMPT TO SUBSTITUTE AN OIL CONTRACT FOR JUSTICE BRINGS AN END TO THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ALLIANCE

THE REAL EFFECT THAT THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY IS HAVING ON AMERICA'S STANDING AMONG THE SOVEREIGN NATION-STATES OF THE WORLD:  AMERICA'S LOSS OF RESPECT FROM FOREIGN STATES -- AMERICA'S LOSS OF SIGNIFICANT SWAY WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD -- AMERICA'S RETREAT INTO A WEAKER & MORE VULNERABLE POSITION -- BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA UNDERMINING AMERICAN NATIONAL SECURITY & INTERNATIONAL STANDING -- PRESIDENT OBAMA FOLLOWING IN THE PATH OF PREVIOUS WEAK & INCOMPETENT PRESIDENTS, SUCH AS JAMES EARL CARTER & WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON -- OBAMA'S EFFORTS TO WEAKEN THE U.S. ARMED FORCES & INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES -- EMBOLDENING FOREIGN REGIMES & INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENTS HOSTILE TO THE U.S.A. -- CREATING WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY ENTICING AMERICA' ENEMIES TO STRIKE

PAX AMERICANA:  MAINTAINING WORLD PEACE & DEFENDING IT BY WAGING WAR AGAINST & DESTROYING EMERGING THREATS TO U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY & WORLD ORDER -- THE MISSION OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE

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?

SOVEREIGN STATES, WARS, INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, EMPIRES, & ISSUES OF ENDURING IMPORTANCE:  WHAT MAKES GREAT EMPIRES ENDURE OR COLLAPSE?  HOW DO GOVERNMENTS DEFEND THEIR ACTIONS?  WHAT CAUSES THE BREAKUP OF A LEVIATHAN SUPERSTATE?  WHEN IS IT RIGHT TO GO TO WAR, OR PURCHASE PEACE, OR PAY OFF AN ENEMY?

THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY:  THREAT TO THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC & ITS FOUNDING PRINCIPLES -- PRESIDENT OBAMA AS A RADICAL & RUTHLESS LEFTWING DEMAGOGUE WHO HOLDS IN CONTEMPT AMERICA'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES, INCLUDING THE ENTIRE CONCEPTS OF LIMITED GOVERNMENT, FEDERALISM, CHECKS & BALANCES, INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY, & FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION -- THE DELIBERATE, MALIGNANT, & SUBVERSIVE ACTIONS OF THE LEFTWING JUGGERNAUT THAT HAS BEEN UNLEASHED AGAINST THE AMERICAN NATION -- THE GRAVE DAMAGE THAT IS BEING DONE BY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, NOT ONLY TO THE AMERICAN NATIONAL FABRIC, BUT ALSO TO THE DELICATE STRUCTURE OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

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

THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, & THE POLITICS OF WAR & U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY:   LIBERAL DEMOCRATS PLAYING A DANGEROUS POLITICAL GAME WITH AMERICA'S NATIONAL SECURITY -- THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY AS AN UNQUALIFIED DISASTER -- VIEWING ANY & EVERY SITUATION PRIMARILY, PERHAPS EXCLUSIVELY, FROM THE STANDPOINT OF ITS POLITICAL GAIN OR LOSS BY LEFTWING LIBERALISM & THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY -- PERCEIVING FORMER VICE-PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY AS A GREATER DANGER THAN AL-QA'IDA OR A NUCLEAR IRAN -- PRESIDENT OBAMA'S NAIVE & IDEOLOGICALLY DRIVEN DECISIONS RELATING TO THE ISLAMIST TERROR WAR --THE OBAMA FACADE IN THE INITIAL STAGES OF COLLAPSE

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

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

HOW LIBERAL DEMOCRATS ARE UNDERMINING AMERICA'S DEFENSES IN THE TERROR WAR:  THE CLEAR LINK BETWEEN THE INEPTITUDE OF THE LIBERAL LEFTIST DEMOCRATIC PARTY LEADERSHIP IN WASHINGTON, D.C., & AMERICA'S WEAKNESS IN THE GLOBAL WAR THAT IS BEING WAGED AGAINST OUR COUNTRY BY THE ISLAMISTS -- THE MINDLESS CONFUSION OF LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS IN CONGRESS & THE PRESIDENCY & THEIR CONTINUING DECISIONS TO PUT PARTISAN POLITICAL ADVANTAGE ABOVE THE SAFETY & WELL-BEING OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE -- UNDERMINING THE MISSION OF U.S. MILITARY FORCES & INTELLIGENCE-GATHERING AGENCIES, WHILE BOOSTING THE MORALE OF ISLAMIST TERRORISTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD -- INCREASING THE LIKELIHOOD OF ANOTHER MAJOR JIHADIST TERROR ASSAULT ON THE U.S.A.

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

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.

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 CONCERTED PUSH WITHIN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO BAN FRANK TALK ABOUT THE NATURE OF AMERICA'S ISLAMIST ENEMY;  INSISTENCE ON NO CONNECTION BEING DRAWN FROM ISLAM TO EXTREMIST POLITICS & TERRORISM

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

THE UNITED NATIONS, THE EUROPEAN POLITICAL LEFT, & THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARD THE CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST:  WIDESPREAD ANTI-SEMITISM -- ANTI-ISRAELI & PRO-ARAB BIAS REGARDING THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT -- APPEASEMENT OF HAMAS -- WILLINGNESS TO ALLOW HAMAS TO RULE TYRANNICALLY OVER THE GAZA STRIP & MURDER BOTH ISRAELIS & PALESTINIANS

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

ISLAMISM & JIHADISM IN INDONESIA:  JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH & THE INDONESIAN ISLAMIST MOVEMENT -- JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH'S STRUGGLE TO TRANSFORM INDONESIA INTO AN ISLAMIST STATE -- JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH'S ENGAGEMENT IN POLITICS AS A CYNICAL SHORTTERM TACTIC IN JI'S LONGTERM STRATEGY TO ERADICATE SECULAR LAW & GOVERNMENT & TO IMPOSE SHARI'A LAW & A THEOCRATIC DICTATORSHIP -- HOW JI BUILDS UPON THE EXPERIENCE OF MIDDLE EAST TERRORIST GROUPS

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 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

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

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?

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

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."

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?

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

THE RE-EMERGING THREAT OF RUSSIAN AGGRESSION:  THE REAL DANGER OF RUSSIA'S RESURGENCE AS A MAJOR WORLD POWER CAPABLE OF CHALLENGING THE MILITARY & FOREIGN POLICY GOALS OF THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES -- THE RUSSIAN MILITARY INCURSION INTO GRUZIA (GEORGIA) AS A SIGN OF WHAT LIES AHEAD IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS -- HOW RUSSIA'S OIL EXPORTS & ECONOMIC BOOM HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE REVIVAL OF RUSSIA AS A MILITARY THREAT -- WHAT MUST BE DONE TO PROTECT AMERICA & ITS ALLIES FROM THIS THREAT

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

ENERGY GEOPOLITICS & THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF GRUZIA:  PRESERVING THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION'S MONOPOLY OF CASPIAN-REGION NATURAL GAS EXPORTS -- THE INVASION AS RUSSIA'S RESPONSE TO GRUZIA'S PLAN TO ALLOW OPERATION ON ITS TERRITORY OF A NATURAL GAS PIPELINE THAT RUSSIA WOULD NOT CONTROL -- HOW THE RUSSIAN MOVE AFFECTS THE INTERESTS OF MEMBER-STATES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION -- HOW AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS ARE AFFECTED

AMERICAN POLITICS, ELECTIONS, & FOREIGN POLICY:  U.S. FOREIGN POLICY & NATIONAL SECURITY CONCERNS NOW AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DEBATE -- HOW THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION UNDERCUT THE CREDIBILITY OF THE U.S.A. IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS & THE WAR ON TERRORISM -- HOW BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, Jr., IS REPLICATING THE MISTAKES OF PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- WHAT IS NEEDED TO RESTORE U.S. CREDIBILITY IN THE REAL WORLD OF PERNICIOUS INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, POLITICAL INSTABILITY & TURMOIL, WARS OF AGGRESSION, & IDEOLOGICALLY-DRIVEN INTERNATIONALISM TERRORISM

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

WHAT IS AMISS ON THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT?  THE MYOPIC PERSPECTIVE OF EUROPEANS, AS REGARDS INTERNATIONAL POLITICS, THE ISLAMIST JIHAD AGAINST THE WEST, INTERNAL SUBVERSION OF EUROPEAN SOCIETIES & THE U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN OF BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, JR.:  NAIVE INDIFFERENCE TO THE BURGEONING ISLAMIC SUBCULTURE WITHIN EUROPEAN NATION-STATES, MUCH OF EUROPE HOPING IN VAIN THAT IT CAN INDEFINITELY IGNORE THE PROBLEM, & DO SO WITHOUT ANY REPERCUSSIONS -- DISREGARDING THE ENCROACHMENTS OF THE ISLAMISTS, INCLUDING THE PARISIAN RIOTS OF 2005 & 2006 -- MUCH OF THE EUROPEAN POPULACE PRETENDING THAT NO DANGER TO EUROPE & WESTERN CIVILIZATION EXISTS -- EUROPE'S DESIRE FOR A LEFTIST PRESIDENCY IN THE U.S.A., A PRESIDENCY STRONGLY INCLINED TOWARD COLLECTIVISM, ECONOMIC & MILITARY WEAKNESS, APPEASEMENT, & "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS" -- THE EROSION & VIRTUAL COLLAPSE OF EUROPE'S TRADITIONAL CULTURAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSES

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

AMERICA IN THE REAL WORLD:  NATIONAL LEADERSHIP & GRAND STRATEGY -- THE LIMITS OF RHETORIC, PUBLIC OPINION POLLS, DISARMAMENT, & MULTILATERALISM

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 MANNED MOON LANDING, VICTORY IN THE COLD WAR, & THE GREATNESS OF THE AMERICAN NATION:   REMEMBERING & RECOGNIZING AMERICAN SUCCESSES IN OUTER SPACE AS IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO DECISIVE VICTORY OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST IN THE THIRD WORLD WAR & THEIR SAVING THE PLANET FROM DOMINATION BY THE SOVIET UNION -- THE ATTITUDE OF AMERICA'S GENUINE PATRIOTS TOWARD THE HISTORIC "SPACE RACE" BETWEEN THE U.S.A. & THE U.S.S.R. -- REJECTION OF THE INTERPRETATION ADOPTED & PROMOTED BY AMERICAN LEFTISTS & THE LIBERAL MEDIA

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 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 FOURTH WORLD WAR:  THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCURATELY IDENTIFYING THE ENEMY WE CONFRONT, NAMELY, ISLAMISM -- NAMING THE ENEMY AS ESSENTIAL TO DEFINING WAR GOALS, DEFEATING THE ENEMY, & WINNING THE WAR --ISLAMISM AS A RADICAL UTOPIAN VERSION OF ISLAM, A WELL-FUNDED, WIDESPREAD TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGY, & A MOVEMENT THAT IS ENDEAVORING TO DESTROY WESTERN CIVILIZATION & IMPOSE A GLOBAL ISLAMIC ORDER WHICH FULLY APPLIES ISLAMIC LAW -- THE APPROPRIATE U.S. & WESTERN RESPONSE TO THE ISLAMIST THREAT:   VANQUISH ISLAMISM & HELP MUSLIMS DEVELOP AN ALTERNATIVE FORM OF ISLAM

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

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 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 ROLE OF ENERGY IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS:  RUSSIA & THE GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY -- ENERGY AS THE KEY VARIABLE IN THE COLLAPSE OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION & THE RE-EMERGENCE OF RUSSIA AS A WORLD POWER -- THE FAILURE OF THE U.S.A. TO LEARN & PROFIT FROM THE RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE -- THE FOLLY & DANGER OF AMERICA'S CURRENT NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY, A POLICY DICTATED BY THE POLITICAL IDEOLOGY & AGENDA OF THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS -- THE URGENT NEED FOR AMERICANS TO BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND THE GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY

THE LATE PRESIDENCY & CONTINUING PUBLIC LIFE OF JAMES EARL CARTER:  CARTER'S GROSSLY INCOMPETENT LEADERSHIP AS U.S. PRESIDENT & THE GREAT HARM HE DID TO U.S. FOREIGN POLICY & NATIONAL SECURITY INTERESTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD -- THE GREAT HARM EX-PRESIDENT CARTER IS DOING TO THE COUNTRY BY HIS REMAINING ACTIVE & OUTSPOKEN IN THE ARENAS OF DOMESTIC POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY -- HOW CARTER GIVES AID & COMFORT TO AMERICA'S DEADLY ENEMIES -- CARTER AS AN OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE, PSYCHOTICALLY NAIVE PERSONALITY & A DISGRACE TO THE AMERICAN NATION

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

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.

WORLDWIDE DEPLOYMENT OF U.S. MILITARY FORCES:  FOWARD-DEPLOYMENT OF U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL IN FAR-FLUNG PLACES PREPARED TO DETER & DEFEAT AMERICA'S ENEMIES & TO DEFEND THE SOVEREIGNTY, INDEPENDENCE, & FREEDOM OF THE U.S.A. & ITS ALLIES -- ENDEAVORING TO MAINTAIN PEACE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE WORLD -- FOLLOWING THE ANCIENT ROMAN MAXIM:  "SI VIS PACEM, PARA BELLUM" ("IF YOU WANT PEACE, PREPARE FOR WAR")

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

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

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

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

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

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

HUMAN PROGRESS DURING THE PAST 100 YEARS:  IMPROVEMENT OF THE HUMAN CONDITION THROUGH INVENTIVE GENIUS, TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT, ELECTRICAL POWER, RAPID TRANSPORTATION, GLOBAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS, CENTRAL HEATING, AIR CONDITIONING, REFRIGERATION, AN ABUNDANT FOOD SUPPLY, & EXTRAORDINARY MEDICAL TREATMENT -- MAJOR PROBLEMS & CHALLENGES FACING AMERICA DURING 2008 & SUCCEEDING YEARS:  STATISM, THE ENVIRONMENTALIST & NO-GROWTH MOVEMENT, INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTENANCE, A DISFUNCTIONAL EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM, THE UNITED NATIONS & OTHER THREATS TO NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY, INTERNATIONAL POLITICS & THREATS TO WORLD PEACE, & POLITICAL ISLAM AS A THREAT TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION

LIBERALISM & "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS" VERSUS AMERICA'S STRENGTH, PROGRESS, & PROSPERITY:  THE GREAT DAMAGE THE POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT IS DOING TO THE AMERICAN NATION -- LEFT-LEANING AMERICAN ELITISTS REFUSING TO RECOGNIZE THE SERIOUS THREATS TO THE SECURITY & SURVIVAL OF AMERICAN SOCIETY, THUS LEAVING THE NATION COMPARATIVELY ILL PREPARED TO DEAL WITH THESE THREATS -- LEFTISTS AMONG TENURED PROFESSORS, ENTRENCHED POLITICIANS & BUREAUCRATS, & "MAINSTREAM" MEDIA PUNDITS INFLUENCING PUBLIC POLICY & INVOKING THE POWER OF GOVERNMENT TO IMPLEMENT AGENDAS THAT ARE SUBVERSIVE TO THE NATIONAL INTERESTS & NATIONAL SECURITY OF THE U.S.A. -- DIRE NEED FOR RESTORATION OF THE MORAL, CULTURAL, & SPIRITUAL ROOTS OF THE AMERICAN NATION

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

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS THE GREATEST & MOST HIGHLY RATED SOCIETY IN THE WORLD:  THE U.S.A. AS THE SOLE SUPERPOWER IN THE WORLD TODAY & THE SOVEREIGN NATION-STATE THAT IS, BY FAR, THE MOST DYNAMIC, MOST INNOVATIVE, & MOST DEVOTED TO REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT, THE RULE OF LAW, LIBERTY UNDER LAW, & EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY FOR ITS CITIZENS -- AMERICA AS THE NATION WHOSE POLITICAL & CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM INSPIRES PEOPLE IN THE WORLD'S REMAINING AUTHORITARIAN STATES TO RISK THEIR LIVES RESISTING TYRANNY AND FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM

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

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 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?

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

INTERNET CYBER-WARFARE WITH AL-QA'IDA:  TERRORISM, COUNTERTERRORISM, CYBER COUNTERTERRORISM, & CYBER-COUNTERINTELLIGENCE -- THE NEED FOR THE U.S. & OTHER WESTERN GOVERNMENTS TO DEVELOP A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE WAYS AL-QA'IDA & ITS AFFILIATES USE THE INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY TO WAGE THE GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- THE NEED FOR INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES TO BE ALLOWED & ENCOURAGED TO INCORPORATE CREATIVE STRATEGIES ENABLING THEM TO ANTICIPATE WHERE THE TERRORISTS MIGHT NEXT CARVE THEIR PATH ON THE INTERNET

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

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

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 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

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?

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

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

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

ISLAMIST TERRORISM & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  THE VERY HIGH PROBALITY THAT THE U.S.A. WILL, IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE, SUFFER YET ANOTHER MAJOR ISLAMIST TERROR ATTACK, AN ATTACK DWARFING THE ENORMITY OF THE ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 -- HOW THE AMERICAN POLITICAL LEFT IS UNDERMINING AMERICA'S RESOLVE TO TO APPROPRIATELY RESPOND TO THE ISLAMIST ENEMY -- HOW DEMOCRATIC PARTY LIBERAL LEFTIST POLITICIANS ARE ENCOURAGING THE ISLAMISTS TO ATTACK OUR NATION AGAIN -- WHAT AMERICA MUST DO IN ORDER TO PREVENT ANOTHER MAJOR TERROR ATTACK & WIN THE GLOBAL WAR AGAINST THE FORCES OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM & BARBARISM

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

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

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

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

THE AMERICAN POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT -- THE MESSAGE IT IS TRUMPETING & THE IMPACT THAT THE MESSAGE IS HAVING ON THE WILL OF THE U.S.A. TO PREVAIL IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  ELECTORAL POLITICS, LIBERAL LEFTIST PROPAGANDA, & EROSION OF THE MORAL & SPIRITUAL COMPONENT OF AMERICA'S STRENGTH -- COURAGE & RESOLVE TO PREVAIL AGAINST OUR ENEMIES IN THE TERROR WAR ARE BEING LEACHED FROM THE SOULS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE -- AMERICA IS INCREASINGLY ACCEPTING THE NOTION OF A "CUT & RUN" RESPONSE TO ISLAMIC TERRORISM & ITS SPONSORS -- AMERICA'S ENEMIES ARE INCREASINGLY EMBOLDENED TO ACTIVELY UNDERMINE AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

"REALISM," IDEOLOGY, & THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY:  THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S TURN TO THE "REALISTS" & THEIR WEAK, SHORTSIGHTED APPROACH TO FOREIGN POLICY & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS -- RESURRECTION OF FOREIGN POLICY "REALISM," WHICH PROMOTES SHORTTERM GAIN, OFTEN AT THE EXPENSE OF LONGTERM SECURITY -- EMBRACING A FOREIGN POLICY THAT DISCOUNTS THE IMPORTANCE OF ADVERSARIES' IDEOLOGIES & THE NEED FOR LONGTERM STRATEGIES -- FAILURE TO CONSIDER THE LESSONS OF HISTORY & THE COST OF ABANDONING PRINCIPLE -- WEAKENING U.S. POLICY IN IRAQ & AMERICA'S DEFENSE IN THE TERROR WAR

AMERICAN POLITICS & U.S. FOREIGN POLICY:  PARTISAN POLITICS, THE WAR ON TERRORISM, & THE FUTURE OF U.S. POLICY IN IRAQ -- VICTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN THE NOVEMBER U.S. CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS SIGNIFIES THE IMPENDING TAKEOVER OF CONTROL OF MAJOR SENATE & HOUSE COMMITTEES BY LIBERAL LEFTIST DEMOCRATS WHO ARE OPPOSED TO MANY OF THE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE & COUNTERTERRORISM MEASURES NECESSARY TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN NATION -- LEFTWING LIBERAL DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS CAN BE EXPECTED TO PUSH FOR ADOPTION OF A CUT-&-RUN POLICY IN IRAQ & TO SABOTAGE AMERICA'S DEFENSE AGAINST THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIST JIHAD -- FROM CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS, EXPECT OBSTRUCTION & SUBVERSION, RATHER THAN PATRIOTISM & PROTECTION OF AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS ABROAD

ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM, INTERNATIONAL CRISES, & THE GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST CIVILIZATION:  ISLAMIST JIHADISM AS A MAJOR THREAT TO WORLD PEACE & THE EXISTING WORLD ORDER -- ISLAMISTS AS PRISONERS OF THEIR OWN NARROW & PAROCHIAL WORLDVIEW -- INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM & CRISES GENERATED & DRIVEN BY ISLAM'S TWISTED INTERPRETATION OF REALITY, ITS DISTORTED CONCEPTUALIZATION OF EVENTS & ISSUES, & THE MECHANISTIC PROBLEM-SOLVING MODEL FOLLOWED BY MUSLIMS -- THE NEED FOR A REFORMATION OF ISLAM & AN END TO ITS NARROW, RIGID, & CLOSED SYSTEM OF BELIEFS -- THE ANALYSIS OF AN EX-MUSLIM

ISLAMISM & THE GLOBAL JIHAD AGAINST CIVILIZATION:  ISLAMIST JIHADISM AS A MAJOR THREAT TO THE EXISTING WORLD ORDER -- JIHADIST IDEOLOGY AS THE MOST DEADLY TOTALITARIAN SYSTEM EVER INVENTED -- WHAT MUST BE DONE TO DEFEND OURSELVES & OUR CIVILIZATION AGAINST JIHADIST FANATICISM & TERRORISM -- THE ANALYSIS OF AN EX-MUSLIM

SYRIA:  MIDDLE EASTERN TROUBLEMAKER & ENEMY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -- WHY THE SYRIAN POLITICAL REGIME OF BASHAR AL-ASSAD CONTINUES TO DEFY THE U.S.A. -- THE PROBLEMS THAT THE SYRIAN REGIME & ITS STRATEGY ARE CREATING FOR AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- WHY & HOW THE BUSH PRESIDENCY SHOULD CALL BASHAR'S BLUFF -- THE PROPER ROLE OF U.S, MILITARY ACTION

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

WOMEN IN THE WAR AGAINST ISLAMISM:  FIGHTING ISLAMIC IGNORANCE & BACKWARDNESS & DEFENDING THE CIVILIZED WORLD AGAINST THE BARBARISM, TERRORISM, & TYRANNY OF MILITANT ISLAM -- THE CONTRIBUTIONS & ULTIMATE SACRIFICE OF TWO WOMEN WARRIORS, SAFIA AMA JAN & MERIDETH HOWARD -- THE LESSON TO BE LEARNED FROM THEIR LIVES & DEATHS:  AMERICA & ITS ALLIES MUST NOT BE PERSUADED BY APPEASERS & COWARDS TO RUN AWAY FROM MURDERERS ON MOTORBIKES & IN BOMB-LADEN CARS

ISSUES RELATING TO THE GENERAL WELFARE & NATIONAL INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:   GETTING DOWN TO THE NITTY-GRITTY REGARDING AMERICAN POLITICS, PUBLIC POLICY, & NATIONAL SECURITY -- A REVIEW OF ALAN CARUBA'S RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOK, RIGHT ANSWERS: SEPARATING FACT FROM FANTASY

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY & THE PROBLEM OF IRAN:  THE ABSOLUTE IMPOSSIBILITY OF EMPLOYING DIPLOMACY AS AN EFFECTIVE INSTRUMENT OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN DEALING WITH THE THREAT TO THE U.S.A. & THE WEST POSED BY THE ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIME IN IRAN -- OVERT & COVERT WARFARE AS THE ONLY POSSIBLE MEANS OF SOLVING THE IRANIAN PROBLEM -- MASSIVE PREEMPTIVE & RETALIATORY MILITARY ACTION, THOROUGHGOING PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE & FORCIBLE ELIMINATION OF THE PROBLEM, RATHER THAN FUTILE ATTEMPTS TO NEGOTIATE & COMPROMISE WITH THE IRANIAN REGIME

THE BARBARISM, TERROR, & TYRANNY OF POLITICAL ISLAM:  THE CONDITIONS OF HUMAN MISERY, DEGRADATION, OPPRESSION, & BACKWARDNESS THAT EXIST WHEN ISLAM HOLDS POLITICAL POWER & CONTROLS & DIRECTS THE OPERATIONS OF A SOVEREIGN STATE OR OTHER POLITICAL COMMUNITY -- EPISODES OF ISLAMIC CARNAGE -- WHAT HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN IRAN EVER SINCE THE ISLAMISTS SEIZED POWER IN THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION OF 1979 -- THE URGENCY OF ACHIEVING THE VICTORY OF HUMANITY OVER ISLAMIST POLITICAL REGIMES & MOVEMENTS -- THE PRACTICAL STEPS THAT SHOULD BE TAKEN TO ACHIEVE VICTORY OVER POLITICAL ISLAM

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

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

IRAQ, THE U.S.A., & IRAN:  WHAT IS REQUIRED FOR THE SUCCESS OF AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY IN IRAQ -- DON'T TRUST IRAN, CUT THE SUPPLY LINES TO THE IRANIAN-BACKED MILITIAS, DESTROY THE IRANIAN INTELLIGENCE NETWORK, REPLACE THE IRANIAN CHARITIES WITH OUR OWN PATRONAGE, & TREAT THE COMMANDERS OF IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS AS THE COMBATANTS THEY ARE -- PROJECT STRENGTH, RATHER THAN WEAKNESS, IN THE MIDDLE EAST

THE PROPOSED "SECURITY & PROSPERITY PARTNERSHIP OF NORTH AMERICA":  A GRANDIOSE SCHEME TO ESTABLISH A NORTH AMERICAN UNION THAT WOULD ABOLISH AMERICA'S NATIONAL BORDERS WITH MEXICO & CANADA -- THE SPP, A VERY BAD FOREIGN POLICY CONCEPT HATCHED WITHIN THE BOWELS OF THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS, IS A MAJOR THREAT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, ECONOMIC PROSPERITY, & SOVEREIGNTY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

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?

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

AMERICAN LIBERALISM DURING TIME OF WAR:  THE LIBERAL TENDENCY TO TRY TO "UNDERSTAND" THE ENEMY & EXCUSE HIS BAD BEHAVIOR -- LIBERALISM & THE ISLAMIST JIHAD -- THE LIBERAL POSITION REGARDING ISLAMISM, THE ISEAELI-ARAB CONFLICT, & THE WORLDWIDE TERROR WAR THAT THE ISLAMISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST -- FAULTY LIBERAL ANALYSIS REGARDING THE NATURE & CAUSES OF THE FOURTH WORLD WAR & THE COURSE OF ACTION ISRAEL, AMERICA, & THE WEST SHOULD TAKE IN DEALING WITH THE COMMON ENEMY IN THE CONFLICT

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 ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT:  THE STATE OF ISRAEL VERSUS PALESTINIAN TERRORISM -- ANTISEMITISM IN THE UNITED NATIONS & THE ARAB WORLD -- THE LESSONS THAT THE ENTIRE WORLD SHOULD LEARN FROM THE HISTORY OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT, INCLUDING THE ACTIONS OF PALESTINIAN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS:   A NATION HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST ITS ENEMIES -- A NATION MUST PUNISH ITS ENEMIES UNTIL THEY GIVE UP THE FIGHT & CEASE ALL ACTS OF AGGRESSION -- YOU CANNOT NEGOTIATE WITH PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KILL YOU -- ISRAEL'S ALTERNATIVES:  ANNIHILATE THE TERRORISTS, OR BE ANNIHILATED

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 & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY:  U.S. DEFENSE OF ALLIES FROM AGGRESSION IS A POLICY REMARKABLT CONSISTENT & BIPARTISAN -- THE U.S. CONGRESS UNITES IN THE FACE OF AGGRESSION AGAINST THE U.S.A. OR ITS ALLIES -- THE PLEDGE OF U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH TO PROTECT ISRAEL MILITARILY AGAINST IRAN IS NEITHER UNIQUE NOR COUNTER TO AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS

UNITED STATES FOREIGN & DEFENSE POLICY & THE CONTORTED & DANGEROUSLY SUBVERSIVE WORLDVIEW OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL & CULTURAL LEFT:  THE ABYSMAL IGNORANCE OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY LIBERALS & THEIR MEDIA ALLIES REGARDING THE TRUE NATURE OF & SERIOUS THREAT INHERENT IN AMERICA'S ISLAMIST ENEMY IN THE WAR ON TERRORISM -- MUTATION OF THE LIBERALS' VIRULENT & ANTI-AMERICAN IDEOLOGY INTO A BELIEF THAT, NO MATTER WHAT ENEMY THE U.S.A. FACES, THAT ENEMY MUST BE MORALLY & PHILOSOPHICALLY SUPERIOR TO ANY VESTIGE OF TRADITIONAL AMERICA -- THE LIBERALS' CEASELESS DISSEMINATION OF PROPAGANDA RATIONALIZING & SANITIZING THE BARBARISM & MURDEROUS BRUTALITY OF THE ISLAMISTS & THEIR JIHAD AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST

ISLAM, ISLAMISM, THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION, & JIHADISM:  MILITANT ISLAM AS A REVOLT AGAINST THE MODERN WORLD -- A COMBINATION OF RELIGIOUS DOGMA & POLITICAL IDEOLOGY DEDICATED TO ANNIHILATION OF ALL CHRISTIANS, JEWS, & OTHER NON-MUSLIMS & TO TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL, THE U.S.A., & WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- SAYYID QUTB AS A MAJOR ARTICULATOR OF THE ISLAMIC EXTREMIST WORLDVIEW, THE WORLDVIEW THAT GAVE US WAHHABISM, ISLAMISM, THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD, AL-QA'IDA, THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION, & THE JIHAD AGAINST THE WEST -- RADICAL ISLAM AS THE TOTALITARIAN WORLDVIEW & VIOLENT WORLDWIDE MOVEMENT THAT WE MUST RESIST, DEFEAT, & DESTROY FOR THE SAKE OF ALL MANKIND

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

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

THE WEST & FOREIGN AID POLICY:  REASONS FOR THE INEFFECTIVENESS OF EFFORTS OF WESTERN NATION-STATES & THEIR AGENCIES & PROXIES TO PROVIDE ECONOMIC AID TO THE REST OF THE WORLD -- THE ANALYSIS OF ECONOMICS PROFESSOR WILLIAM EASTERLY

THE UNITED NATIONS AS AN INEPT AS WELL AS CORRUPT & CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION: THE UN'S COMPLETE FAILURE AS AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION DESIGNED TO PREVENT NATION-STATES FROM GOING TO WAR WITH ONE ANOTHER -- HIGH TIME TO TERMINATE AMERICA'S PARTICIPATION IN & FUNDING OF THE UNITED NATIONS & ITS AGENCIES -- HIGH TIME FOR THE U.S.A. TO TAKE THE LEAD IN THE CREATION OF AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF EXCLUSIVELY CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC NATION-STATES

UNITED STATES FOREIGN POLICY & THE BUSH DOCTRINE:  FAILURE OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TO IMPLEMENT ITS STATED POLICY OF PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY & CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY IN FOREIGN LANDS -- CONDONING POLITICAL REPRESSION & TYRANNY IN SUCH NATIONS AS EGYPT, LEBANON, LIBYA, CHINA, & NORTH KOREA -- TOLERATING & CODDLING TYRANNICAL DICTATORIAL POLITICAL REGIMES, GIVING THEM LEGITIMACY, & DISCOURAGING POLITICAL DISSENT

ISLAMISM, TERRORISM, & JIHADISM:  USE OF POLITICS, CHARITY, & TERRORISM IN THE SERVICE OF JIHAD AGAINST ISRAEL & THE WEST -- MILITANT ISLAM, HAMAS, SAUDI ARABIA, MILITANT ISLAM, ISLAMIC BANKING, & FUNDING THE GLOBAL WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION

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

MULTILATERALISM, UNILATERALISM, ANTIWAR ACTIVISM, & WAR CRIMES:  THE GROWING TENDENCY IN PACIFIST, LEFTIST, & INTERNATIONALIST CIRCLES TO DEMONIZE & CRIMINALIZE TAKING THE OPPOSING SIDE IN DEBATE OVER POLICY ISSUES IN SUCH AREAS AS FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, WAR & PEACE, NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, & MILITARY DEFENSE -- MAKING IT A WAR CRIME TO PLACE THE VITAL INTERESTS OF ONE'S NATION ABOVE THE OPINIONS, BIASES, & IDEOLOGIES OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS THAT SELDOM LIVE UP TO THE NOBEL GOALS OF THEIR FOUNDING CHARTERS -- THE FOOLHARDINESS & DANGER OF PROCEEDING ON THE ASSUMPTION THAT INTERNATIONAL BODIES LIKE THE UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION & THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT WILL BE NEUTRAL OR OPERATE IN THE CAUSE OF JUSTICE

THE ISRAELI-ARAB CONFLICT & THE WAR OF IDEAS IN THE MEDIA:  THE TWISTED PSYCHOLOGY THAT PALESTINIAN ARABS USE TO FURTHER THEIR SENSE OF VICTIMIZATION, GAIN THE SYMPATHY OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY, & CONTINUE INCITEMENT OF TERRORISM -- CONDEMNING ISRAEL FOR THE CRIMES OF PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS -- WHY THERE WILL NEVER BE PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- THE ARABS' HATRED OF JEWS IS GREATER THAN THE ARABS' LOVE OF THEIR OWN SONS & DAUGHTERS

PEACE, NONVIOLENCE, & THE CONTEMPORARY QUAKER DOUBLE STANDARD: QUAKERISM & POLITICS -- CONFUSION OF QUAKER RELIGIOUS PHILOSOPHY WITH LEFTIST POLITICAL IDEOLOGY -- USE OF MODERN POLITICIZED QUAKERISM TO UNDERMINE SUPPORT FOR UNITED STATES FOREIGN & NATIONAL SECURITY POLICIES DESIGNED TO DEFEND AMERICA'S VITAL NATIONAL INTERESTS & DEFEAT & DESTROY ITS DEADLY ENEMIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

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

ISLAMISM & THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIC JIHAD:  THE CURRENT THREAT TO WORLD PEACE & WESTERN CIVILIZATION -- AWAKENING & FACING UP TO THE GLOBAL TERROR WAR BEING WAGED AGAINST US BY MILITANT ISLAM -- GROWING REALIZATION OF THE NEED FOR THE EUROPEAN NATION-STATES, AS WELL AS THE UNITES STATES OF AMERICA, TO PUT THEMSELVES ON A WAR FOOTING & IMPLEMENT THE MEASURES REQUIRED TO PROTECT THEIR RESPECTIVE HOMELANDS

EVENTS & DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE LIKELY TO OCCUR IN THE WORLD DURING OR SOON AFTER THE YEAR 2006 & HOW CONDITIONS OF WAR & PEACE ARE LIKELY TO BE AFFECTED BY THOSE EVENTS & DEVELOPMENTS:  A CLOUDY GLIMPSE OF THE NEAR FUTURE, BASED ON HISTORY & SOME KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN TODAY'S WORLD:  THE GREATEST MILITARY POWER IN THE WORLD, THE MOST POWERFUL ECONOMY IN THE WORLD, THE DRIVER OF INVENTION & INNOVATION, & THE EXPORTER OF THE AMERICAN NATIONAL HERITAGE OF CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY & INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY UNDER LAW -- SHAPING UNITED STATES FOREIGN & MILITARY POLICY TO COPE EFFECTIVELY WITH THE INTERNATIONAL PROBLEMS & THREATS THAT HAVE EMERGED SINCE THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET EMPIRE & THE END OF THE COLD WAR

AL-QA'IDA & ISLAMISM:  THE INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIST TERRORIST MOVEMENT & THE GLOBAL WAR IT IS WAGING AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION & THE MODERN WORLD -- THE INCREASINGLY SHAKY GROUND ON WHICH THE ISLAMISTS OPERATE & THE FORESEEABLE END OF THEIR MOVEMENT -- WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS TO DO:  GET ON WITH THE JOB OF ELIMINATING AL-QA'IDA, DESTROYING ITS HEAD, STEM, & ROOTS

MILITANT ISLAM & THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  DEFENDING AMERICA & THE WEST IN THE GLOBAL WAR THAT THE ISLAMIST JIHADISTS ARE WAGING AGAINST US -- ISLAMISM:  THE EVIL, BUT CLEAR & FOCUSED, IDEOLOGY OF THE ENEMY -- THE GOAL OF THE ISLAMIST ENEMY: ESTABLISHMENT, BY TERRORISM, SUBVERSION & INSURGENCY, OF A TOTALITARIAN EMPIRE THAT DENIES ALL POLITICAL & RELIGIOUS FREEDOM -- THE CLEAR CHOICE THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAS MADE:  "WE WILL CONFRONT THIS MORTAL DANGER TO ALL OF HUMANITY; WE WILL NOT TIRE UNTIL THE WAR ON TERRORISM IS WON."

WORLD WAR IV & THE JIHADIST ENEMY OF AMERICA & THE WEST:  AN APOSTLE OF APPEASEMENT & SURRENDER OFFERING ADVICE ON HOW THE U.S.A. SHOULD DEAL WITH THE ISLAMIST ENEMY -- URGING THE U.S. GOVERNMENT TO BEGIN OPENING CHANNELS TO AL-QA'IDA FOR THE PURPOSE OF NEGOTIATING A TRUCE -- IGNORING HISTORY, WHICH IS REPLETE WITH LESSONS THAT TEACH THE FUTILITY OF NEGOTIATING WITH PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KILL YOU

THE THREAT OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM & THE U.S. RESPONSE TO THE THREAT:  SUCCESSES & FAILURES OF AMERICA'S INTELLIGENCE & LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES -- TIME TO REVIEW THE SUCCESSES & FAILURES & TO EXAMINE THE LESSONS WE HAVE LEARNED, OR SHOULD HAVE LEARNED, FROM THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, ISLAMIST TERRORIST ATTACKS ON THE U.S.A.

ISLAMISM VERSUS THE MODERN WORLD:  AL-QA'IDA & THE DEADLY ISLAMIST JIHAD IT IS CURRENTLY WAGING AGAINST WESTERN CIVILIZATION, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, & JUST ABOUT EVERY OTHER NATION THAT TILTS TOWARD MODERNITY OF ANY KIND -- AMERICA'S VITAL NATIONAL INTERESTS & WHY THE U.S.A. MUST PROVIDE THE SECURITY THAT IS NECESSARY FOR A WORLD SUFFICIENTLY PEACEFUL & STABLE TO CARRY ON NORMAL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS & ENGAGE IN INTERNATIONAL TRADE:  WHY EVERY SOVEREIGN STATE THAT THREATENS WORLD PEACE & STABILITY MUST BE SUBJECTED TO MILITARY INVASION & REGIME CHANGE -- WHY AL-QA'IDA OR ANY OTHER JIHADIST GROUP MUST BE SUBJECTED TO THE RELENTLESS HUNT TO FIND & KILL ITS LEADERS & FOLLOWERS

GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CHALLENGES FACING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA & AMERICAN NATIONAL INTERESTS IN THE YEAR 2005 -- MEETING LONGTERM CHALLENGES WITH A LONGTERM STRATEGY

THE CHURCHILL DOCTRINE ON CONFRONTING TOTALITARIAN THREATS TO WORLD PEACE, WESTERN CIVILATION, & ANGLO-AMERICAN LIBERTY -- THE RELEVANCE OF THE EARLY 20TH. CENTURY STATESMANSHIP & INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC DOCTRINE OF WINSTON CHURCHILL TO THE ROLE OF AMERICA & ITS ALLIES IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS DURING THE CONTEMPORARY ERA OF ISLAMIST TERRORISM & JIHADISM

ANTI-AMERICANISM ABROAD -- WHY THERE IS SUCH INTENSE & WIDESPREAD DISLIKE FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AMONG FOREIGNERS, PARTICULARLY IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- ONE EXPLANATION:  THE U.S.A. AS A FORCE FOR CHANGE & THE SPECIAL TYPE OF CHALLENGE TO THE WORLD THIS FORCE REPRESENTS

THE WAR ON ISLAMISM:  THE WAR AGAINST THOSE THOSE WHO FORMENT & SUPPORT ISLAMIC TERRORISM -- FIVE ESSENTIAL PRINCIPLES THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA MUST FOLLOW, IF IT WISHES TO WIN THE WAR ON ISLAMISM & SEVERELY CURTAIL & EVENTUALLY ELIMINATE THE THREAT OF ISLAMIC TERRORISM

THE WAR IN IRAQ -- THE LONGTERM STRATEGIC REASON FOR AMERICA'S MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ:   THE RESULTING POSITION OF POWER WHICH WILL, IN TIME, ENABLE THE U.S.A. TO DECISIVELY INFLUENCE & SHAPE EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA & REDUCE THE WORLDWIDE THREATS THAT HAVE THEIR GENESIS IN THAT REGION

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

THE STARK REALITY OF THE ISLAMIST JIHAD -- A RELIGIOUS WAR BEING WAGED BY THE DARK FORCES OF ISLAMIC FANATICISM & BARBARISM AGAINST THE CIVILIZED WORLD:  A WAR IN WHICH THE SURVIVAL OF THE U.S.A. & THE WEST REQUIRES THAT WE UNITE & TAKE UP ARMS IN OUR OWN DEFENSE & VIGOROUSLY PROSECUTE THE WAR WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT NO LATTITUDE EXISTS FOR A "PEACEFUL RESOLUTION" OF THE CONFLICT, THAT THE AGGRESSORS MUST BE ROOTED OUT & DESTROYED, ALONG WITH EVERY ENTITY SUPPORTING THE ENEMY

WHAT MOTIVATES AMERICA'S ISLAMIC ENEMIES TO WAGE WAR AGAINST & ENDEAVOR TO DESTROY THE U.S.A. & THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?  PURE HATRED BASED ON ABYSMAL IGNORANCE & ISLAMIC DELUSIONS FALSELY DESIGNATING THE U.S.A. AS THE SOURCE OF THE MISERY WHICH CHARACTERIZES THE LIVES OF MUSLIMS THROUGHOUT THE ISLAMIC WORLD -- INABILITY OR UNWILLINGNESS OF MUSLIMS TO REALIZE THAT THE TRUE SOURCE OF THEIR MISERY IS ISLAM, WHICH HAS CONSIGNED THEM TO BACKWARDNESS, POVERTY, & TOTAL DEPENDENCE ON THE MERCY OF ARBITRARY & DESPOTIC RULERS

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?

IN THE GLOBAL WAR AGAINST ISLAMIST TERRORISM, WHAT MUST AN EFFECTIVE DEFENSE OF AMERICA & THE WEST INCLUDE?  A SERIES OF VERY GOOD OFFENSES:  A DETERMINED, PERSISTENT, & THOROUGHING PROACTIVE ENDEAVOR TO PURSUE & ELIMINATE THE TERRORISTS, HUNTING THEM DOWN & KILLING THEM, WHEREVER THEY MIGHT BE FOUND

THE U.S.A., THE MIDDLE EAST, & THE TERROR MASTERS:  ISLAMIC TERRORISM, THE WAR ON TERRORISM, WITH WHOM WE ARE AT WAR, WHY WE ARE AT WAR, & THE PROBLEM OF DEMOCRATIZING THE MIDDLE EAST

MILITANT ISLAM, IDEOLOGICAL EXTREMISM, & INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM:  IN COMBINATION, A ROADBLOCK TO GLOBAL POLITICAL PROGRESS & ECONOMIC PROSPERITY & A SERIOUS THREAT TO INTERNATIONAL PEACE & SECURITY, CIVIL SOCIETY, & HUMAN FREEDOM

THE LEGACY OF THE LATE PRESIDENT RONALD WILSON REAGAN -- THE PHILOSOPHY WHICH GUIDED REAGAN THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE & THE PRACTICE OF WHICH MADE HIS PRESIDENCY ONE OF THE GREATEST THE AMERICAN NATION HAS EVER EXPERIENCED:  THE PROPOSITION THAT THE COMPETENT EXERCISE OF AMERICAN POWER IS ESSENTIAL TO MAINTAINING INTERNATIONAL PEACE & SECURITY -- THE SOUNDEST FORMULA FOR GUIDING UNITED STATES DEFENSE & FOREIGN POLICY IN THE CONTEMPORARY ERA

THE CONDUCT OF THE UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES IN THE FOURTH WORLD WAR:  WHY WE AMERICANS HOLD OUR MILITARY FORCES TO A HIGHER STANDARD THAN THAT OF ANY OTHER NATION IN THE WORLD --THE MORAL COMPONENT OF THE WAY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WAGES WAR

THE WORLDWIDE STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE CIVILIZED WORLD & THE BARBARISM OF RADICAL ISLAM & JIHADIST TERRORISM -- THE CLASH OF TWO OPPOSING POLITICAL VISIONS:  THE BRIGHT VISION OF HUMAN LIBERTY UNDER THE RULE OF LAW VERSUS THE GRIM VISION OF A WORLD IN WHICH DISSENT IS CRUSHED & EVERY PERSON MUST THINK & LIVE IN COLORLESS CONFORMITY UNDER THE DESPOTIC RULE OF FANATICAL, INTOLERANT, & BRUTAL ISLAMIC EXTREMIST TYRANTS

AMERICAN MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ -- THE STRATEGY THAT THE U.S.A. IS PURSUING IN IRAQ & THE SPECIFIC STEPS THAT ARE BEING TAKEN TO ACHIEVE U.S. GOALS THERE:  THE REPORT OF U.S. PRESIDENT BUSH TO THE AMERICAN NATION & THE IRAQI PEOPLE

POLITICAL & CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE NATIONS THAT REMAIN DISCONNECTED FROM THE MODERN WORLD & ARE STILL RULED BY DESPOTIC POLITICAL REGIMES:  WHAT AMERICA & THE OTHER FREE NATIONS MUST DO TO END THE THREAT TO GLOBAL PEACE

THE ISLAMIST JIHAD AGAINST AMERICA & THE WEST:  WHERE & HOW MIGHT THE NEXT ISLAMIC TERRORIST ATTACK ON THE U.S.A. OCCUR?  IF THE ATTACK OCCURS, WILL WE AMERICANS DEEPEN OUR RESOLVE TO DESTROY OUR ISLAMIST ENEMIES, OR WILL WE SEEK TO WITHDRAW FROM THE FIGHT?

THE SITUATION IN IRAQ & THE WORLDWIDE ISLAMIC JIHAD BEING WAGED AGAINST THE U.S.A. & THE WEST -- WHAT AMERICA MUST DO & NOT DO IN ORDER TO AVOID A FUTURE OF ONGOING CHAOS & HAVOC VASTLY EXCEEDING THE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, ISLAMIC TERRORIST ATTACKS UPON THE U.S.A.

THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
Volume VI, Issue # 114, June 2, 2004

DISCUSSION TOPIC:

IRAQ & VIETNAM -- A DANGEROUS COMPARISON:

NO QUICK & EASY FIX FOR THE PROBLEM IN IRAQ

By Christopher G. Adamo

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