The choice that will shape the new Middle East

Trump, Netanyahu and choices that will shape the new Middle East

When Jimmy Carter occupied the White House, Menachem Begin was prime minister of Israel. Carter viewed the world through a deeply religious and, at times, naive lens. To him and many around him, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini appeared to be a pious and even saintly religious figure. Even CIA director Adm. Stansfield Turner—and perhaps those responsible for the Tehran desk—lacked a real understanding of Khomeinism or of the ideological doctrines con…

The choice that will shape the new Middle East

As the world celebrated the collapse of apartheid, communism, and Nazism, so too the day will eventually come when Islamist terrorism meets the same fate. Opinion.