Tag: Foreign Policy

by Stephen F. Hayes On February 23, five days before Russia invaded Ukraine, National Security Adviser Susan Rice appeared on Meet the Press and shrugged off suggestions that Russia was…

by Michael Barone Solipsism. It’s a fancy word that means that the self is the only existing reality and that the external world, including other people, are representations of one’s…

It isn’t surprising that the US and the other five powers signed a deal with Iran on Saturday. Over the past few weeks, US President Barack Obama and Secretary of…

Appeasement is always sold as an honorable peace in which the appeaser claims he got the best of the bargain. by John Bolton Negotiations for an “interim” arrangement over Iran’s…

by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi Throughout their convoluted and bloody history, Hungarians never marshaled the courage to look reality in the eye and graduate from their kindergarten-mentality to adulthood.  Devoid…

Every American ally is cringing with embarrassment at the amateurishness of the last month.  by Mark Steyn For generations, eminent New York Times wordsmiths have swooned over foreign strongmen, from…

Why are we even talking about taking military action in Syria? What is that military action supposed to accomplish? And what is the probability that it will in fact accomplish…

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…

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.…

It seems all but certain that the U.S. will launch cruise missiles into Syria as punishment for its use of chemical weapons against civilians. But what is this really going…

by Bret Stephens On the subject of Egypt: Is it the U.S. government’s purpose merely to cop an attitude? Or does it also intend to have a policy? An attitude…

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…

by Linda Chavez President Obama’s decision to cancel his planned trip to Moscow to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin was the right thing to do in light of Russia’s…

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…

by Joel B. Pollak President Barack Obama rarely makes himself available to the mainstream media. They adore him anyway. At rare press conferences, such as the one scheduled for this…