US: Russia Violated 1987 Nuclear Missile Treaty
by Jim Kuhnhenn • Associated Press In an escalation of tensions, the Obama administration accused Russia on Monday of conducting tests in violation of a 1987…
The U.S.-Israeli Alliance: No Apologies Necessary
by Lawrence A. Franklin Remember the commentaries after 9/11 that “we should have been expecting something like this”? Some even implied that America was, in part, responsible for the attacks…
Empty Rhetoric is Fleeting and is Not Leadership
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi The inclination to uncontrollable urge for verbal diarrhea, motivated by narcissism and shallow intellectual abilities and not by wisdom and experience, is the ubiquitous attribute…
Obama Fiddles While Iraq Burns
The president is focused on leaving Iraq, no matter the cost to freedom and security. by Peter Roff While Iraq burns to the ground – a major international problem –…
Obama Tenure Marked by Foreign Policy Debacles
When President Obama took the oath of office in January 2009, he became the leader of the world’s greatest military power, and the nation that more than any other in…
What About Meriam, President Obama?
Sen. Inhofe calls for a Sudanese woman sentenced to death to receive asylum. by Peter Roff No one knows how much attention the Obama administration is paying to the plight…
Save Meriam Ibrahim
Obama and the rest of the world need to come to the aid of a Sudanese woman sentenced to death. by Peter Roff It only took about a month, but…
Punch and Judy Foreign Policy
by Major Garrett For President Obama, caution in the defense of liberty is no vice, and militarism in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Obama didn’t come to Asia…
Foreign Policy of Denial
by Charles Krauthammer Barack Obama’s 949-word response Monday to a question about foreign policy weakness showed the president at his worst: defensive, irritable, contradictory and at times detached from reality.…
Is Menendez Knuckling Under Foreign Policy Hardball?
The Foreign Relations Committee chairman has been strangely quiescent – is it because of his scandals? by Peter Roff We’re not seeing a lot of leadership from the U.S. Senate…
Foreign Policy Failures Prove Critics Right
The President once promised to tackle “cynicism” about what could be achieved through diplomacy. But he’s nowhere near close to doing that. by Michael Crowley In a rough month of…
Vlad the Prevaricator
Talks in Geneva on the unrest in eastern Ukraine have concluded with an agreement by the foreign ministers of the European Union, Russia, Ukraine and the U.S. for all sides…
Hungary’s Moribund Democracy
by Dr. Miklos Radvanyi & Dr. Istvan Molnar The results of the latest national elections in Hungary on April 6, 2014, proved that history in this ancient land of the…
Americans Disapprove of Obama’s Foreign Policy
President Barack Obama’s foreign policy approval rating continues to drop as the conflict between Russia and Ukraine remains unresolved, CBS News reports. Just 36 percent of Americans polled approve of Obama’s…
How Obama Should Have Handled the Crimea Crisis
Here are the steps a strong leader would have taken. by Peter Roff If America had a robust foreign policy, “the crisis in the Crimea” might never have come to…