Posted May 22, 2017 12:33 PM by Daniel Horowitz This is the title of an article I would have written had a Democrat president engaged in the same obsequious behavior to the Saudis over the weekend. Given that a dignified consistency is indispensable to intellectual honesty, I’m not going to sugar-coat this because there is […]
By Joseph A. Klein President Obama delivered his annual speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 28th. He spoke mostly in generalities, with his usual platitudes extolling the benefits of multilateral cooperation, diplomacy and international law rooted in what he called “universal,” “self-evident” truths. He condemned “the belief that power is a zero-sum […]
Big Media responds to the Iran deal. • What do you need to know about the deal? Take your pick of summaries of the fine print by AP, CNN, the Jerusalem Post and Daily Telegraph (one and two). If you have the stamina, read the full 159-page agreement. • The Daily Telegraph notably summarizes what the agreement doesn’t cover — […]
The most devastating reproach historians are likely to make to Barack Obama’s record in the White House is his devastating failure in foreign policy — a failure that stems from his willingness to leave the warrior ideologues of the State and Defense Departments in place after he became president. To them he added ideologues of […]
It is often remarked that the Ship of State is the one ship which leaks from the top. Thus even before the blatantly theatrical political funeral dirge conducted at the White House in which President Obama announced that Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, the sole remaining Republican in his cabinet, would be leaving of his […]
By ZALMAN SHOVAL Political Islam is “winning” because the intelligentsia in the West “began to declare that the building blocks of the Western system were outmoded and not worth defending.” This is how Charles Hill, Diplomat in residence at Yale University and a former ambassador and adviser to presidents, put it in a recent article […]
By Leigh Bravo : The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, has posted beheadings of two Americans and one British aid worker on Social Media. In the news this week, ISIS called on followers in Australia to behead innocent citizens within their cities and has called on followers in the United States to kidnap […]
(CNSNews.com) – President Obama’s approval ratings for handling of foreign affairs has fallen to an all-time low in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, which also showed a significant jump in support for airstrikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists in Iraq. Just 38 percent of respondents said they approved of the […]
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) expressed disbelief on Sunday after Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States “has never been more engaged in helping to lead in more places than we are now.” Kerry also said the American people “ought to be proud” of President Obama’s “peaceful, diplomatic engagement” in the world’s […]
by Daniel Pipes Mar 23, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner I just had the opportunity to spend an afternoon with a Council on Foreign Relations group at the United States Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. Its commander, the famed Admiral William H. McRaven, started the briefing, […]
