8 Syrians Caught at Texas Border in Laredo
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has confirmed that eight Syrians were taken into custody at the Laredo port of entry. by Brandon Darby & Ildefonso Ortiz •…
How America can counter Putin’s moves in Syria
by Condoleezza Rice and Robert M. Gates • Washington Post One can hear the disbelief in capitals from Washington to London to Berlin to Ankara and…
How 7 years of Obama brought the world from Kumbaya to chaos
by New York Post Just three years ago, President Obama famously ridiculed GOP opponent Mitt Romney’s statement that Russia remained America’s main geopolitical foe by taunting: “The 1980s are calling…
On Syria, Obama Plays Tiddlywinks, Putin Plays Chess
by Investor’s Business Daily The White House was “surprised” by a new intelligence-sharing pact among Iran, Syria, Russia and Iraq to fight the Islamic State. But given their own actions,…
Iran: Missiles Pointed at U.S. Targets
Iran, Russia, Syria, Iraq form joint war room by Adam Kredo • Washington Free Beacon A senior Iranian military leader warned this weekend that “all…
An Anti-American White House
Barack Obama’s presidency has empowered the adversaries of the United States by Matthew Continetti • Washington Free Beacon This week President Obama won the 34th vote…
The Ruin of “Hope and Change”
Obama’s hubristic promises have been followed by a total discrediting of his ideology. by Victor Davis Hanson • National Review Online Barack Obama will end his…
The Divine Right of Barack Obama
The president who began as a champion of the legislature’s prerogative to declare war has morphed into Napoleon. by Charles C. W. Cooke • National Review…
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.…
The high price of Obama’s Mideast peace push
by John Bolton The breaking news that al Qaeda has captured Fallujah and Ramadi raises the question whether America’s sacrifices in Iraq were made in vain. It also highlights the…
Despots Love a Vacuum
by Peter Roff It wasn’t that long ago that Barack Obama took America to the brink of armed conflict in Syria over its use of chemical weapons against rebels trying…
How Obama’s Syria Policy Fell Apart
by Michael Weiss It’s hard to pinpoint just when, exactly, Barack Obama’s Syria policy fell apart. Was it in December, when Islamists humiliated U.S.-backed rebels by seizing what limited supplies…
If you like your President …
President Obama’s second inaugural conveyed a hunger to lead. “We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect,” he said. “We must act, knowing that today’s victories will be…
Prospects for Military Intervention in the Syrian Crisis
by Kenneth Bloomquist Executive summary Given the current political climate in the United States and Europe, if a military intervention in Syria were to materialize it would probably be a…
Getting Serious about Syria
Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi Even in the best of times the greater Middle East had been beset by political instability, economic suffering, social discontent, and a permanent psychological oscillation of…