Killing them softly
There’s been quite a bit of chatter in the media this week about the use of drones in the surveillance of American cities, with conservative commentators like Charles Krauthammer lining up to say they...
View ArticleWanted — credible threat of force on Syria
Kofi Annan, the international envoy for Syria, is shocked by the latest massacre in Syria, which bears all the hallmarks of a war crime. Shocked! So what can we expect now from the international...
View ArticleNo room for complacency on al Qaeda
Is the West African state of Mali, where al Qaeda fighters are well-established in the north, the next Afghanistan?You might think so, listening to former Canadian ambassador Robert Fowler on NPR this...
View ArticleKnow thine enemy
Bloggers, be careful what you wish for. A year ago the Obama administration was triumphantly celebrating its role in the Arab Spring. In the process the USA failed to support its longtime Egyptian...
View ArticleObama’s 3 a.m. call comes; he hits snooze button
Reading the pundits, you would have thought that Mitt Romney said something wrong about the failed Obama Middle East policy.However, the predictable reaction from the left shows us that in fact, Romney...
View ArticleObama and the politics of anger at the UN
I thought that was a pretty effective and well-crafted speech that President Obama delivered just now to the U.N. General Assembly on the perils of political extremism.In the middle of the presidential...
View ArticleThe 2012 conference on WMD-free zone in Middle East bites the dust
It’s the final presidential debate on American foreign policy tonight and you can expect Iran’s nuclear program to come up. But there’s an equally topical and important issue that is extremely unlikely...
View ArticleThe year of the settler: Israel, before the revolution
A day of destiny approaches in Israel: Jan. 22, when the Knesset reforms to new cultural contours. A critical article by Lisa Goldman and Mairav Zonszein reveals the ascending paradigm: “The settlement...
View ArticleThe UN doesn't like Israel very much
According to recent reports, since 2006 the United Nation’s Human Rights Council has condemned Israel 32 times by resolutions, amounting to 48 percent of that body's resolutions. Compare that with...
View ArticleGOP Benghazi hearings a partisan disgrace
Perhaps during his next partisan exploitation of the tragic death of Americans at Benghazi, Libya, in political hearings paid for by American taxpayers, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) can replay...
View ArticleHas America finally lost patience with the Clintons?
It would have been impossible for Watergate to have occurred in the years before it did. Somewhere therein a sea change had occurred and we, the Americans, were determined to rescue ourselves from a...
View ArticleThomas Pickering on the chain of command: Ambassador to secretary of State
At the start of the Obama administration, when I was writing about the rookie president’s appalling continuation of the tradition of appointing bundlers/donors to the most glamorous embassies, I...
View ArticleIran elects a new president
The recent election of Hassan Rowhani to be the next president if Iran may create a window of opportunity to seek diplomatic solutions to the always-controversial matters between the United States and...
View ArticleWorld gone mad
You can either laugh or you can cry. But in case you have any doubts, this past week provided proof that the world has indeed gone mad.
View ArticleIraq II: Bush, Obama and The Republic of Rhetoric. Just say no.
Watching the Senate hearings on C-SPAN yesterday brought the odd, almost surreal impression that I was watching an old black-and-white movie on the Ted Turner station, not with John Kerry and John...
View Article‘Red line’ politics and the ‘blame Bush’ strategy
The left is out in full force working to spin President Obama’s failure to make his case for military strikes against Syria’s Assad forces as — wait for it — George W. Bush’s fault.
View ArticleSyria vote: So bad it never happened
The Hill's A.B Stoddard takes your questions on Syria after President Obama asks Congress to hold off on a vote to authorize the use of force.
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