U.S. Policy

On September 11, 2011, Matthew Levitt, director of The Washington Institute's Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, delivered a plenary keynote address at "World Summit on Counter-Terrorism: Terrorism's Global Impact," the eleventh annual conference of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya, Israel. The following is an excerpt from his

Despite Qadhafi's fall, the Obama administration's initial reluctance to become involved in Libya sends a negative signal to Iran and others regarding Washington's stomach for confrontation.

There are plenty of policies that the United States could pursue, short of dropping bombs on Damascus, to hasten the Asad regime's fall.

With the Palestinian train heading toward the UN, the light at the end of the tunnel is really just Quartet diplomacy heading in the wrong direction.

The time has come for Washington to withdraw its ambassador from Syria, just as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and others have done.

The internet provides the medium through which political freedoms are accessible to all for the first time in human history.

After months of drafting, heated interagency discussion, and many rounds of redrafting, the White House is reportedly set to release its long-expected national strategy on countering violent extremism.

As it remakes the Middle East, the Arab Spring is also realigning U.S. and Turkish policies.

Although the recent storming of the U.S. embassy in Syria ended without bloodshed, American personnel may not be so lucky in the future.