Defense Wolfowitz News Today

A well-designed proposal to tilt the U.N. away from secrecy, scandal, and corruption.

[Originally published on February 6, 2003.] It was the most somber evening, against all the “show biz” traditions of the State of the Union: no salute to the first lady, no acknowledgement of “special guests” invited to underscore various policies.  

The President should make it very clear that the imminent threat ofa missile attack necessitates a defensive deployment as soon aspossible and that this requires that the United States notifyRussia that it will exercise its legal right to withdraw from theABM Treaty.

After two years, al Qaeda and its allies continue to find new foot soldiers to wage a jihad against the West. Italian police, for instance, made multiple arrests in the last few weeks related to jihadist recruiting networks for Iraq (by al Qaeda franchise Ansar al Islam) and presumably elsewhere. The network had recruited at least 200 Islamic militants, 70 of them from Italy.