David Aikman is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist, a best-selling author, and a foreign affairs commentator based in the Washington, D.C.-area. His wide-ranging professional achievements include a 23-year career at TIME Magazine with reporting spanning the globe of nearly all the major historical events of the time. Since leaving TIME, he has authored ten books. His latest, The Mirage of Peace: Understanding the Never-Ending Conflict in the Middle East (Regal 2009), released in September 2009, is a comprehensive overview of the nations and societies of the strife-torn region and the historical roots of the intransigent conflicts that have defied attempts to bring a lasting peace. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidAikman http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidAikman TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2013 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:01:30 GMT Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:01:30 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ Virtually every major thinker who has written on the subject of war-from Germany's Clausewitz to ancient China's Sun Tzu-has agreed on one main dictum: "Know your enemy." Understood in that thought is the concept of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidAikman/2010/08/09/knowing_-_and_naming_-_your_enemy c5b7950b-8598-4822-8ea5-16ac2f0edd38 Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:01:30 GMT Most Americans are sympathetic to public references to Islam and to Muslims that do not offend patriotic American Muslims or affix to the Islamic religion the rantings of al-Qaeda. But sensitivity to the need to be... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidAikman/2010/06/09/islam_and_the_politically_correct_white_house 9347befd-8985-4180-bab4-caee6c526c0f Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:02:09 GMT