Obama Doctrine

Obama Doctrine Leaves World Less Safe

In his State of the Union address, President Obama declared that “America is back.” Examining Obama’s foreign policy efforts, however, this statement seems doubtful. To better understand Obama’s foreign policy, Heritage hosted a panel discussion with Kim Holmes, Mark Thiessen, and Clifford May. As Holmes has previously written, Obama defines America as just another nation […]

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Obama’s Libya

Wherever Obama with NATO intervenes, massacres, mass destruction, and unspeakable horrors and human misery follows, all thanks to Obama and his illegal war in Libya last year. Once Africa’s most developed country, Libya today’s a ravaged, out-of-control charnel house. Tens of thousands died. Multiples more were injured, made homeless, and forcibly displaced, thanks to Obama […]

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Libyan Islamists Gaining Strength

Although Libya has rid itself of the Muammar Qadhafi regime, it faces an uncertain future endangered by radical Islamist factions, warring militia commanders, tribal rivalries, a lack of democratic traditions, and a civil society ravaged by decades of authoritarian rule. Last week, two militias clashed violently in a turf war in Tripoli, the Libyan capital. […]

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Top 10 Threats to Watch in 2012

U.S. intelligence agencies  forecast beyond the next five years any possible threats to US interests.   Robert Gates, serving as U.S. secretary of defense, noted two months into NATO’s intervention in Libya, “If you’d asked me four months ago if we’d be in Libya today, I would have asked, ‘What were you smoking?’” The U.S […]

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The Year We Lost the Middle East

About the only people having a Happy New Year in the Muslim world aren’t the Christians who are huddling and waiting out the storm, but the Islamists who use a different calendar but are having the best time of their lives since the last Caliphate. The news that the Obama Administration has brought in genocidal […]

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Top 10 Most Read Foundry Posts of 2011

This year saw the death of Osama bin Laden, the Arab Spring and the fall of regimes in Libya and Egypt, a conservative revolution in Wisconsin, continued joblessness in America, and a European economic crisis. Through it all, Heritage experts provided the best conservative analysis of the latest breaking news here at Foundry.org. Below are […]

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Report: Qaddafi’s Daughter Seeking Asylum in Israel

The daughter of former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, Aisha, is seeking political asylum in Israel, according to a report on the Intelligence Online website. The report, which was quoted by Yeshiva World News on Wednesday, said that Aisha Qaddafi has hired the services of Nick Kaufman, a former prosecutor assigned to the Jerusalem District Prosecutor’s […]

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Gadhafi Son Tried to Escape to North America

MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexico’s Interior Secretary said Mexican intelligence agents have broken up a plot to smuggle the son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and his family into Mexico under false names. Interior Secretary Alejandro Poire said the plan involved a criminal ring “of international dimensions,” but it was quashed in September before […]

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Egypt’s Sham Election

by Daniel Pipes and Cynthia Farahat National Review Online December 6, 2011 According to Egypt’s elections committee, the Muslim Brotherhood won 37 percent of the vote of the first round of voting in Egypt; and the Salafis, who promote a yet more extreme Islamist program, won 24 percent, giving them together a jaw-dropping 61 percent […]

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