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A Third Lebanon War Could Be Much Worse Than the Second
Commentary Magazine - November 20, 2009

The Show Needn't Go On
Commentary Magazine - November 13, 2009

Hezbollah Isn't a Model for Afghanistan
Commentary Magazine - October 14, 2009

Did Hezbollah Kill Hariri?
Commentary Magazine - May 26, 2009

The HuffPo's Lonely Planet Foreign Policy
Commentary Magazine - May 21, 2009

A Third Lebanon War?
Commentary Magazine - February 19, 2009

The Mother of All Quagmires
Commentary Magazine - January 27, 2009

Kosovo's Moderate Muslims
Wall Street Journal - December 29, 2008

The (Really) Moderate Muslims of Kosovo
City Journal - Autumn 2008

Iraq at the End of the Surge
Commentary Magazine - December 8, 2008

Iraq is Still Iraq
New York Daily News - December 8, 2008

Lebanon's Enemy Within
Commentary Magazine - October 27, 2008

Are You Going to the American Side?
Wall Street Journal - August 22, 2008

Report from Tbilisi
City Journal - August 20, 2008

A Perilous Peace
Commentary Magazine - July 29, 2008

The Truth About March 14
Commentary Magazine - July 18, 2008

Is the War Over?
Commentary Magazine - July 16, 2008

How Kosovo Created its Own Liberal Islam
Standpoint Magazine - July, 2008

No More Gazas
Commentary Magazine - June 17, 2008

Lebanon's Future
Commentary Magazine - May 16, 2008

The Real Iraq
City Journal - May 16, 2008

This is a Kosovar Muslim
Commentary Magazine - May 7, 2008

The Case of Bilal Hussein
Commentary Magazine - April 22, 2008

Hope for Iraq's Meanest City
City Journal - Spring 2008

Blasphemers Unite!
Commentary Magazine - April 4, 2008

Between West and East
New York Times - March 30, 2008

The Israel of the Balkans
Commentary Magazine - March 20, 2008

What I See Every Day in Iraq
New York Daily News - December 2, 2007

No Friends but the Mountains
Azure Magazine - Fall 2007

The Next Iranian Revolution
Reason Magazine - October 2007

Front-line Lessons from the Iraq Surge
New York Daily News - 8/29/2007

Welcome to Hizbullahland
The Jerusalem Post - 4/5/2007

Power, Faith, and Fantasy in the Middle East
Pajamas Media - 2/20/2007

The Kurds Go Their Own Way
Reason Magazine - August/September 2006

Across the Attila Line
TCS Daily - 3/29/2006

The Kurd Way
The Bulletin - 2/22/2006

The Enemy of Your Enemy is Sometimes Your Enemy
TCS Daily - 1/18/2006

Cyprus: NATO's Internal Cold War
TCS Daily - 1/11/2006

The Slow Rot of Hosni Mubarak
TCS Daily - 1/6/2006

Lebanon the Model
Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal - 1/3/2006

In the Land of the Brother Leader
LA Weekly - 12/30/2005

Guess Who's Coming to Iftar? A Meal to Remember with Hezbollah
LA Weekly - 12/16/2005

Car Bombs Return to Beirut
TCS Daily - 12/13/2005

No Peace Without Syria
Tech Central Station - 11/27/2005

The Source of the Chaos
Tech Central Station - 10/24/2005

Old School Terrorism in Lebanon
Tech Central Station - 10/18/2005

The Bosnia of Our Time
Tech Central Station - 8/22/2005

It's Not All About Us
Tech Central Station - 8/12/2005

Lebanon and Iraq: Partners in Freedom
The Daily Star - 7/22/2005

The Logic of Pacifism
Tech Central Station - 7/21/2005

Withdrawal Under Fire
Tech Central Station - 7/08/2005

Third Wave Gentrification
Tech Central Station - 6/23/2005

Thanked or Damned
Tech Central Station - 6/09/2005

Resolving the Clash of Civilizations
Tech Central Station - 5/25/2005

A Beirut Diary
LA Weekly - 5/13/2005

Our Friend, the Arab Street
Tech Central Station - 3/16/2005

Second Thoughts in Both Directions
Tech Central Station - 2/21/2005

They March for Themselves
Tech Central Station - 2/08/2005

Welcome to the Hotel Rwanda
Tech Central Station - 1/18/2005

Where The Communist Manifesto Meets The Koran
Tech Central Station - 1/04/2005

Marching Towards a Democratic Iraq
Tech Central Station - 12/21/2004

Crossing the Fossa Regia
Tech Central Station - 11/19/2004

Bomb My House...Please
Tech Central Station - 11/11/2004

Turkey and the Problem of History
Tech Central Station - 10/25/2004

Believe the Hype
Tech Central Station - 10/20/2004

The Liberal Case for Bush
Tech Central Station - 10/07/2004

Hawks and the Presidency
Tech Central Station - 9/20/2004

An American in Tunisia
Tech Central Station - 8/11/2004

The Berkeley Intifada?
Tech Central Station - 6/10/2004

Spinning for Al Qaeda
Tech Central Station - 5/26/2004

Saud-Free Arabia
Tech Central Station - 5/17/2004

Naming the Enemy
Tech Central Station - 5/5/2004

The New Neutrality
Tech Central Station - 4/15/2004

The Small Pleasures of Trade
Tech Central Station - 3/30/2004

Are the Jacksonians Sated?
Tech Central Station - 3/22/2004

Liberalism in the Balance
Tech Central Station - 3/08/2004

Kill Saddam
Tech Central Station - 2/19/2004

Iraq is not Vietnam
Tech Central Station - 11/18/2003

The Crucial Alliance
Tech Central Station - 10/27/2003

An Open Letter to the Party of Wilson and Roosevelt
Tech Central Station - 9/22/2003

The Globalization of Gaza
Tech Central Station - 7/28/2003

The Hindsight Effect
Tech Central Station - 5/30/2003

Builders and Defenders
Wall Street Journal's Opinion Journal - 5/12/2003