As Taliban fighters celebrated their victory in Kabul last month, the terrorist leader presumed to be the greatest beneficiary of their conquest quietly prepared to announce an achievement of his own.

"The Looming Tower, Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," a recent book by Lawrence Wright should be required reading for everyone in America, according to the Christian Science Monitor. I agree. It is ...

President Bush’s announcement of “the Surge” in 2007 defied conventional wisdom. Congressmen, diplomats, and journalists all argued that Iraq was spiraling into civil war, and that there remained no ...