The Obama Doctrine has officially collapsed
America’s enemies have found out they can play our president. There were numerous oddball characters in “M.A.S.H.,” the old TV show about a surgical hospital in the battlefront in Korea.…
Do we look that dumb?
The president marred his chance to lay out a principled position to the American people with patronising dog-whistling by Michael Cohen Upholding and enforcing the longstanding global norm against chemical…
A Laughing Stock
by Glen Reynolds Remember that dumb cowboy George W. Bush, who alienated all our allies and dragged us into wars of choice in the Mideast? And remember that goofball Mitt…
Syria vote is an avoidable political trap
Do congressional Republicans face an impossible choice between being politically used or undermining U.S. prestige in the Mideast? The corner that President Obama has trapped them in is just an…
Seeking an accomplice or political cover for Syria action
Because Syria’s convulsion has become as serious as Barack Obama has been careless in speaking about it, he is suddenly and uncharacteristically insisting that Congress participate in governance. Regarding institutional…
Inept foreign policy
One of the things we were promised back in the 2008 election campaign was that under a Democratic administration America would be better liked and more influential in the world.…
The Surveillance Speech: A Low Point in Obama’s Presidency
by Conor Friedersdorf Last Friday, President Obama spoke to us about surveillance as though we were precocious children. He proceeded as if widespread objections to his policies can be dispatched like…
European Perspective: Obama’s not to be trusted on foreign policy
Having declared an end to the War on Terror, the US president no longer has any clear idea of his country’s global role by Janet Daley The West can no…
Pretending to Be a Foreign Policy Realist
It’s official: President Barack Obama showed President Vladimir Putin his tough side by canceling out of the bilateral summit in Moscow. In yet another of those carefully calibrated messages the…
The “idiot” defense
by Jonah Goldberg Although there’s still a great deal to be learned about the scandals and controversies swirling around the White House like so many ominous dorsal fins in the…