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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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