How does Pakistan’s instability affect its neighbor Afghanistan? We’ll examine the situation this hour with Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, vice president of research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. His Daily Standard piece, “A Dangerous Neighbor: How Pakistan’s deterioration harms Afghanistan,” is available on-line.
Read morePolicing Terrorism
How can law enforcement aid the War on Terror? Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and our guest this hour, examines the link between traditional criminal activities and terrorism in his recently published Manhattan Institute study “The Convergence of Crime and Terror: Law Enforcement Opportunities and Perils.”
Read moreA Year Inside Radical Islam
At twenty-three years of age, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross was a devout follower of radical Islam. A product of progressive Jewish parents and a resident of Ashland, Oregon, Gartenstein-Ross seemed like the least-likely candidate for induction into such a group of people. He tells the story of his experience within Islamic radicalism and his eventual disillusionment and conversion out of the faith in his new book “My Year Inside Radical Islam: A Memoir” (Tarcher Penguin, 2007).
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