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THE INTELLECTUAL STAKES OF THE IRAQ WAR   ROBERT TRACINSKI
The decisive battle of the war in Iraq will not be fought in Baghdad this summer; it will be fought in Washington, DC, in September.

THE SENATE'S CHURCHILL   KENNETH R. TIMMERMAN
Kyl believes that the United States faces no greater challenge from any single country today than from Iran.

THE "FORWARD STRATEGY" FOR FAILURE   YARON BROOK, ELAN JOURNO
Has the democracy crusade moved us toward peace and freedom in the Middle East—and greater security at home?

DOMESTIC TERROR IN IRAN   AMIR TAHERI
Over the past six weeks, at least 118 people have been executed, including four who were stoned to death. At least 150 more people are scheduled to be hanged or stoned to death in the coming weeks.

DON'T MINCE WORDS   CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
The most noticeable thing about all theocracies is their sexual repression and their directly related determination to exert absolute control over women.

THE IRANIAN PLAN FOR IRAQ   WALID PHARES
If Washington withdraws catastrophically from Iraq what would the Iranian regime do?

WASHINGTON'S CIVILIZATIONAL CHOICE   JOE LIEBERMAN
To pull the plug on progress in Iraq would hand our two most dangerous enemies in the world—al Qaeda and Iran—an extraordinary military and strategic victory.

BIN LADEN'S MORTGAGE CALCULATION   ANNE APPLEBAUM
Bin Laden called for Americans to convert to Islam because, among other things, taxes are lower in Islamic states.

AN ECONOMICALLY ORIENTED CONCEPT OF JIHAD EMERGES IN ISLAMIST DISCOURSE   E. ALSHECH
"The battle is economic rather than military."

'AMERICA THE UGLY'   NORMAN PODHORETZ
The Vietnam syndrome is back and it means to have its way.

COGNITIVE DISSONANCE   ANDREW C. MCCARTHY
The war can�t be won absent dealing with Tehran.

WEAK AND UNRELIABLE   CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
Maliki is no friend of Sadr or Iran. He knows that if they ultimately prevail, they will swallow him whole.

A WAR AGAINST ISLAM   ROBERT TRACINSKI
Islam, we have been told again and again, is really "a religion of peace." Perhaps the reason we have to be told this so many times is because it so obviously contradicts the facts.

WORLD WAR IV?   WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY
Recognition of the scale of the pretensions of the Islamist enemy has to precede substantial measures against it.

DON'T PUNT ON IRAN   PETER SCHWEIZER
Undermine the fragile Iranian economy. A few economic bullets fired now may prevent real bullets from flying in the not-too-distant future.

IF IRAQ FALLS   JOSEF JOFFE
If this superpower doesn't care about the world's central and most dangerous stage—what will it care about?

A MOMENT OF TRUTH IN PAKISTAN   BENAZIR BHUTTO
Decisions made now will determine whether extremism and terrorism can be contained to save Pakistan from internal collapse. The stability of not just Pakistan but the civilized world is at stake.

THE ODD GUARD   AMIR TAHERI
The crown jewel of the Guard's business empire is Iran's nuclear program, which has cost the nation over $10 billion so far.

PUBLISH OR PERISH: THE LESSONS OF THE CARTOON JIHAD   ROBERT TRACINSKI
The issue is freedom of speech: whether our freedom to think, write, and draw is to be subjugated to the "religious sensitivities" of anyone who threatens us with force.

WRONG WAY OUT OF IRAQ   NEW YORK TIMES
The United States cannot walk away from the new international terrorist front it created in Iraq.

WINDS OF WAR   JOSHUA MURAVCHIK
Dictators consistently underestimate the strength of democracies, and democracies provoke war through their love of peace, which the dictators mistake for weakness.

IRAN BLACKS OUT DAY OF PROTEST   AMIR TAHERI
Why is it that world media representatives in Iran never interview any of the thousands of trade unionists, teachers' leaders, journalists, student activists, women's-lib militants and dissident intellectuals?

AMERICA'S COMPASSION IN IRAQ IS SELF-DESTRUCTIVE   ELAN JOURNO, YARON BROOK
Things are going badly not because—as some, like Sen. John Kerry, claim—the United States is arrogant and lacking in humility, but because it is self-effacing and compassionate.

BACK TO THE FUTURE?   VICTOR DAVIS HANSON
Remember what that past policy was: Democratic appeasement of terrorists, interrupted by cynical Republican business with terrorist-sponsoring regimes.

DEMOCRATS' DISGRACE   TONY BLANKLEY
This is the moment for Republicans to remind the public of the springtime Democratic Party defeatism and lost nerve.

ON THE BRINK   MICHAEL LEDEEN
In simple English, there is so much poverty in Iran that the minister wants to change the reporting requirements so that nobody can really know the full dimensions of the Iranian people�s misery.

WHY ARE WE SO SCARED OF OFFENDING MUSLIMS?   CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Why should we be commanded to "respect" those who insist that they alone know something that is both unknowable and unfalsifiable?

THE COST OF WAR, UNNOTICED   LORI MONTGOMERY
The nation's wealth now dwarfs the price of war.

IRAQ: THE WRONG WAR   LEONARD PEIKOFF
Iran—not Iraq—is the primary threat to American interest in the Middle East and has been since it confiscated our oil fields in the 1950s.

MY VIEW OF ISLAM   AYAAN HIRSI ALI
The Koran and Sunna are clear. It is the obligation of every Muslim to spread Islam to unbelievers first through dawa, or proselytizing, then through jihad, if the unbelievers refuse to convert.

THE ADVENT OF FREEDOM?   ONKAR GHATE
The draft Iraqi constitution grants virtually unlimited power to the state.

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ   C. BRADLEY THOMPSON
Over the course of the last 200 years, almost every nation in the world, including communist dictatorships and Islamic theocracies, has drafted a constitution. The sad reality, however, is that few have brought freedom.

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