(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 13, 2006
Can a good Muslim be a good American? Simplicity is and will continue to be America's greatest threat. To win the war on terror, we need to identify analyze and understand the real enemy. It took America fifty years to understand communism, and only then we became the victors. The question becomes who is the enemy? Is it Islam the religion? Is it American Muslims? Or is it extremism?

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 16, 2009
Electronic health records are wrong prescription for automation The Obama plan to spend $19.2 billion on electronic medical records as the sole path to achieve health care automation is the equivalent of Kennedy dictating to NASA the specifications of the rocket to the moon.

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, October 17, 2009
Afghanstan - A Plan to Win Our enemy is not a race, a tribe, or a nation. The fight is against a distorted ideology based on a flawed interpretation of the reasons behind the demise of Islam as a political power and Muslims' role in the world.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 7, 2010
Crossing the line and minority equality Muslim and Arab bashing has been largely a safe political bet, where should we draw the line between free speech and incitement or hate speech?

(7 comments) SHARE        Monday, February 2, 2009
Bye Bye GOP! As I listen to the same tried and failed proposals, argued by conservative leaders I ponder a simple question. What is the future of the Republican Party in our country?

(4 comments) SHARE        Sunday, January 25, 2009
Is Obama Ready For The Test? As the magnitude of the devastation in Gaza becomes more apparent in the coming days with media access to the enclave -suspended during the operation- I expect the calls for War Crimes investigations to gain momentum.Will Obama have the vision and the courage to do the right thing?

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, December 29, 2008
Gaza, the questions and answers Now, is the time for Jewish Americans to put pressure on the American government to help Israel make the tough choices, and now is the time for Arab Americans to work with their Jewish counterparts to help solve the Middle East crisis through honest dialogue.

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 29, 2008
Guns, Religion, and Carrots Although it might sound unreasonable to demand from the western world during these tough economic times to feed the hungry, cure the sick, and create jobs for the unemployed as a way to fight terrorism. In reality, it is cheaper than the tried and failed approach of the last seven years.

SHARE        Saturday, December 11, 2010
Election Promises and the Unemployment Predicament Will the wining promises of 2010 election improve economy, and create jobs? The answer is NO and this is WHY?

SHARE        Tuesday, December 27, 2011
After Spring, Any Thing Can Happen The people of the Arab World, wearing headscarf or jeans and sometimes both, demanded freedom and were willing to die for democracy. Where the so-called Arab Spring lead us next will depend on many factors!

(9 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 8, 2009
The Two Americas, Israel, and I There have been always two Americas, and you'd better believe it, because I lived in both.

SHARE        Monday, November 6, 2006
"What was asked of us" book review We the outsiders see the war in terms of black and white, justified or not justified, victory or defeat. A book-signing event last week in midtown Atlanta introduced two dozens of people to "What Was Asked of Us", a personal account of twenty-nine Iraq veterans. This book is the first unvarnished, unfiltered and uncensored history of the Iraq war-straight from the mouths of the men and women who are fighting it.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Stop Praying for Peace, and Think! The Middle East is once again on fire. Let us do this time something more than praying for peace. It never worked before!

(8 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 19, 2006
Open Letter to the American Jewish Community Will the AIPAC be smart enough to lead Israel and America towards a final solution that will allow both countries to prosper? Will AIPAC miss the boat? The answer to this question will be determined in the next few months, and the victim or the winner will be the old Jewish couple living next door and the rest of us!

SHARE        Sunday, October 19, 2008
Thoughts on the economic aftershocks While the immediate impact of this crisis like all powerful earthquakes is easy to predict, the after shocks of the economic turmoil are the ones difficult to forecast, and most likely will linger with us for many years to come. Will the dissatisfaction of the American electorate bring about a government that is capable of understanding the job at hand and addressing the complexity of the new world order?

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, March 1, 2009
Jobs and the blame game Is it possible to maintain American standard of living, while losing jobs or creating the wrong ones? Why America is losing jobs even during economic expansions like the one we had in the nineties?

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 28, 2009
Tough talk unites moderates and hard-liners against U.S. We must question the added value of injecting ourselves in the election dispute, against the potential harm to the brave men and women battling government militias in Tehran's streets.

SHARE        Thursday, August 31, 2006
Demo-Cons!

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, February 8, 2007
War on Terror and Human Behavior When it comes to international policies the sum of all human knowledge somehow disappears.

SHARE        Thursday, October 19, 2006
America waiting for a Yunus! Is it too much to dream that a Yunus will come to America? That the price of a single Abrams tank can pay for thousands of families to start new life in Gaza, the west bank or Baghdad. That the budget for building a wall on the border with Mexico will become hundreds of macro loans to help poor Mexicans live and work in their country.

SHARE        Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Open letter to all presidential hopefuls The list of your names is extremely long. The debates are already too many. The questions are repetitive at best and the answers seem insincere although well rehearsed.

(4 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Can We Leave Iraq? While I believe that immediate troop withdrawal is not in the best interest of the United States, I disagree with the recycled rhetoric about extremism, war on terror and moderate forces in the region.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, June 8, 2007
The Middle East Victory - Forty Years and Counting! Forty years ago on June fifth of Nineteen-Sixty-Seven the war broke in the Middle East. It was the third war in less than twenty years. The immediate outcome of the military conflict was nothing short of an earthquake. Many historians and political analysts regardless of their affiliation agree that the Middle East we know today is a direct result of the Sixty-Seven War.

(1 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 13, 2007
Waiting for an Independent As we watch with amazement, sadness, and sometimes pure horror the continuous skirmish between the White House and Congress, it is obvious that each branch of the government is using all available means to score political points.

SHARE        Sunday, September 17, 2006
The big bad wolf will eat US! The boy is not really a boy it is the Republican Party, the president and the media. The cry is not because they are bored, with nothing to do while they are watching over the sheep. It is an intentional cry, and by coincident it happens every two years!

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 21, 2006
We are scared I understand, are we asking the right question? Is it Islam or American policy abroad responsible for our terror?

SHARE        Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Reprogramming us! The American people and the world spent the last eight years in a binary universe, imposed by our own government. The mantra of the era expressed simply and not so elegantly by our current president "You are with us, or against us."

SHARE        Wednesday, September 13, 2006
The untold story of accountability and security (Healthcare & Homeland) As the fifth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, we have the opportunity and the responsibility to decide on our next choice for representative. It is time to reflect and review the record, make choices not based on fear, or, the lesser of two evils but by learning the record. This is the second of four articles discussing the government performance on defining domestic issues (view other articles by author).

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, November 23, 2007
Checks and Balances in the Age of Lions and Lambs For an American traveling internationally in the war on terror age, it is always an adventure.The recently released movie "Lions for Lambs" raised many questions that reminded me of this feeling.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, September 10, 2006
September 11, the day I remember

SHARE        Thursday, October 26, 2006
Iraq: The One and Only Way Out The only valid question today should not be why we invaded Iraq. History will answer that question. We need to get out of this mess without paying a price for years to come -- and there is only one way out!

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Politics of the impossible over and over again, actions and decisions by the west and Israel in the Middle east have produced unintended, adverse consequences.

SHARE        Monday, October 9, 2006
Dear Democratic Party leaders, are you up to the job? Dear Democratic Party leaders, I do not have a magic wand, I cannot rewrite your political agenda, but this time it is not about you, or your party, or your politics, it is about America, our future and our survival. Are you up to the job?

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, January 12, 2007
Religious followers can't be defined by acts of extremists This is why I refuse to defend Islam. But I welcome the debate on how to fight extremism.

SHARE        Wednesday, September 27, 2006
The world is laughing, are we listening? The world leaders nodded their heads up and down while looking at each other as the Venezuelan president described his American counterpart as lunatic that thinks he owns the world. The signs of all that the US has lost in respect, diplomacy and world influence were tragically visible, though the US media failed to report them.

SHARE        Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Decoding the Middle East For President Bush trip to the Middle East to succeed in achieving any real benefits it will require much more than photo ops with old men wearing traditional head covers and holding hands with our president. But why is he going anyway?

SHARE        Sunday, November 9, 2008
Imagine! Now, it is your turn to prove to Pat that the world can be a safer place, to Kevin that his sacrifices of seventy-two years are not in vain, to Mona that the will of the people are stronger than all the special interests in the world, and to Tim and Lisa that they can earn a decent living and raise a family in their homeland.

SHARE        Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The answer in the pictures After years of paying lip service to winning hearts and minds, this might be our only viable option.

SHARE        Wednesday, October 4, 2006
On the Intifada's anniversary, is there a winner? The Israeli forces or settlers killed people like us but live on $2.10 a day. People with no hope, and the only dream they had called Oslo turned slowly over seven years into a nightmare. This is when people like us rise against their captors that insist on killing or degrading them. The sixth anniversary of the Intifada is a very sad memory of how the world failed and how it is paying the price.

SHARE        Sunday, October 14, 2007
Caroline, Polling, and the American Democracy Democracy is not about constitutions, election cycles, voting, and representation. Even Sadam had those. Democracy is about people willing to invest in learning the facts so they can vote their interests. Will Caroline vote her interest?

(6 comments) SHARE        Sunday, December 24, 2006
Everything is possible! Is it possible that the rest of the good German people did not object, they chose silence and prayed that somebody else will stop the young patriotic representative? Everything is possible!

SHARE        Monday, September 4, 2006
The untold story of accountability and security!

SHARE        Monday, November 3, 2008
The Final Verdict this election is like no other in the history of the United States, because in these uncharacteristically hard times we have to make a choice not between two accomplished men, or two different economic ideologies, but between two distinctly different worldviews created through personal experiences that shaped America and the world in the eyes of these men.

SHARE        Thursday, April 3, 2008
Loyalty That Merits an Insult James Carville the legendary campaign manager of President Clinton, and advisory to Sen. Hillary Clinton explained to the people of this country what they knew by heart but couldn't put in words.

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Independent or Flip-Flopper The same critics that discovered Obama's secret liberal identity during the primary, now are certain that he belongs to the gang of unprincipled politicians willing to promise anything until elected.

SHARE        Thursday, November 30, 2006
Local is Global A change in policy will improve our standing globally which will enhance our life domestically, but this political change will happen only when the unintended and unsigned alliance between Al-Qaeda, the New Cons and the AIPAC is uncovered and eliminated.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, May 2, 2008
To talk or not to talk To talk or not to talk, to hear but refuse to listen, to see but ignore the facts is not a Shakespearian quote from the fifteenths century but a style of governing.

SHARE        Friday, December 15, 2006
The Amazing Study! McCain the presidential hopeful, Talabani the Iraqi president, Olmert the Israeli prime minister all agree on one thing: the Baker-Hamilton recommendation stinks!

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, July 1, 2007
It's the business, stupid The sickly immigration bill is dead. Therefore, it is time for George W. to look for glory elsewhere, while the law enforcement lovers and the love your brother believers in Congress can search for a new fight. However, for you and me we are stuck with the problem of immigration. But is it really immigration?

SHARE        Sunday, December 3, 2006
Here we go again, the decider decided! Rumsfeld is a hero, George W is strong, Maliki is the man for the job, Al-Sader signs agreement with the two largest Sunni groups, the pro western government in Lebanon is falling, and we will not have a graceful exit.

SHARE        Thursday, March 27, 2008
Choices Matter History teaches us that greatness is not an entitlement, and pride is not a strategy. It is the vibrant economy of a nation, and the endless struggle for achieving success one person at a time through common purpose, individual achievements, and the right kind of leadership.

SHARE        Monday, February 18, 2008
Elections and the Innocent Questions The trick is always in the question. Did the surge succeed? How much credit goes to who suggested verses that supported? Should this be a source of pride and a sign of vision?