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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