Elliott Abrams

I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.

The U.A.E. is a firm ally of the United States and deserves better treatment than it received in the Dubai Ports World fiasco in 2006.

History may someday record that the Arab awakening that began with the Arab revolt of 1916 against the Ottomans ended about a century later with a whimper.

The best-armed and best-trained divisions of the Syrian army are Alawite.

Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims.

It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.