U.S. donations to one of the United Nations' biggest agencies are at risk of falling into terrorists' hands, warn Nile Gardiner and Jim Phillips.

The agency is the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. Subject to little external oversight, UNRWA has become extraordinarily opaque about how it spends donors' money.

Even worse, UNRWA has admitted that agents of Hamas, the terrorist group, are on its payroll and is alleged to have stoked anti-Semitism among Palestinian refugees.

With Hamas set to take control of the PA, there is a real risk that the group will exploit UNRWA to further its anti-Israel agenda. Congress must act quickly to prevent this end.

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Read Congress Should Withhold Funds from the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees by Nile Gardiner, Ph.D., and James Phillips

The EU's hysterical response to the U.S. rendition policy is a strong sign that the body just does not grasp the magnitude of the terrorist threat, write Nile Gardiner and James Carafano.

Driven by "anti-American animus," the EU plans a "political show trial" to condemn the U.S. renditions. It will be "a platform for anti-U.S. bile," says one observer.

This stance is hypocritical: many European countries employ rendition and it has been approved by the European Court of Human Rights.

As Gardiner and Carafano argue, rendition is a proven-effective tool in the war on terrorism. "The U.S. must resist the temptation to blunt its most effective weapons in the face of criticism from the EU, the UN, and other supranational institutions," they conclude.

Read The Great EU Inquisition: Europe's Response to the U.S. Rendition Policy by Nile Gardiner, Ph.D., and James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.

If the government cuts projected growth in the portion of the defense budget devoted to developing and purchasing new weapons and equipment, it will be investing too little in future defense capabilities. This general conclusion is what Congress needs to focus on as it turns to defense acquisition reform. Cutting the modernization budget, something encouraged by Congress’s current narrow approach to reform, could actually exacerbate the acquisition system’s biggest problems...