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Pipes has long expressed concern about the supposed danger of radical Islam to the Western world. In 1985, he wrote in ''Middle East Insight'' that "The scope of the radical fundamentalist's ambition poses novel problems; and the intensity of his onslaught against the United States makes solutions urgent." [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/266]. In the fall 1995 issue of ''National Interest'', he wrote: "Unnoticed by most Westerners, war has been unilaterally declared on Europe and the United States." [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/274] Four months before the [[September 11, 2001 attacks]], Pipes and American investigative journalist [[Steven Emerson]] wrote in the ''[[Wall Street Journal]]'' that [[al Qaeda]] was "planning new attacks on the U.S." and that Iranian operatives "helped arrange advanced ... training for al Qaeda personnel in [[Lebanon]] where they learned, for example, how to destroy large buildings." [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/381]
===Zero-sum Arab-Israeli conflict===He wrote in ''Commentary'' in April [[1990]]: : "There can be either an Israel or a Palestine, but not both. To think that two states can stably and peacefully coexist in the small territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is to be either naïve or duplicitous. If the last seventy years teach anything, it is that there can be only one state west of the Jordan River. Therefore, to those who ask why the Palestinians must be deprived of a state, the answer is simple: grant them one and you set in motion a chain of events that will lead either to its extinction or the extinction of Israel." [http://www.danielpipes.org/article/194]
===The dangers of occupying Iraq===
