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The estimated amount of direct Afghanistan and Iraq war costs that the United States has debt-financed as of 2020: $2 trillion.

In the words of Oliver Hardy to Stan Laurel: "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into."

Judge Péter Kovács, the dissenting judge on the ICC panel, issued a minority opinion that asked, "Did the Majority provide a practical answer to the Prosecutor?" and answered that it didn't.

“Every year, the General Assembly adopts some 20 resolutions against Israel and only 5 or 6 against the rest of the world combined."

Mayorkas loves Israeli food and the atmosphere in the Mahaneh Yehuda open market in Jerusalem.

Biden is on the record as stating he would reenter and act to strengthen the nuclear agreement once Iran is in compliance, which would include enhancing the sanctions part of the deal.

Democrats – like the rest of us – know that a Bernie Sanders presidency would be just like the Donald trump presidency, but Bolshevik.

It is crazy for anyone to demand the PA stop paying jailed terrorists, Shaath said.

Obama's predecessor, George Bush, was able to go beyond funding and weapons and get Israel and the Palestinian Arabs talking without anti-Israel UNSC resolutions or media attacks

The White House has been watching helplessly as Putin suspended the treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium.

A group named 9/11 Families & Survivors United for Justice Against Terrorism released a statement Friday arguing the president's reasoning for the veto is "unconvincing and unsupportable."

There was absolutely no new policy idea in the Trump speech Monday night, but there was an implied promise to encourage all levels of law enforcement to be less restrained in pursuing their targets.

What are the chances that the same journalist, who lives and works in Europe, would be present during two separate terrorist attacks within two weeks? Gutjahr himself appears stunned by this coincidence.

It's clear that these sore losers would rather hand the Presidency over to Hillary Clinton and the Democrats than support Trump

A new poll shows a majority of New York Jews view Clinton as unfavorable. Biden catching up.

Former President George W. Bush told leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations that he did not trust the Iranian...

In the 6400 words used by Obama, Islam only constitutes three of them.

Under Clinton, the anti-war business was booming on the fringe, but the news media never deigned to show up and inflate rally counts the way they did once Bush was in office.

Western powers enjoy overwhelming battlefield superiority but face great difficulty when trying to shape other countries.

At least Russia and China are probably as mystified as we are about where Obama is going with his missile defense policy.

It is very doubtful that Obama, whose big plan for Afghanistan was to copy the Bush plan for Iraq that he denounced in the Senate, has a backup plan. Brennan certainly does not.

Koch never met a solicitation for an opinion that he didn't like.

A large part of the problem with Obama’s policy is that he not only treated enemies as friends and did not pressure supposed friends that acted like enemies, he joined them.

In another time and place, a place called America, an attack on an American diplomatic mission would have been considered an act of war.

When my late father, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, was in office, neither Ronald Reagan nor George Bush agreed with his ideology.

The problem nowadays is that an insane interpretation of international affairs seems to be a quality defining who 'the best people are.'

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There was at least one prominent figure in the Bush administration whose support for Israel was up front and genuine – the much maligned vice presi­dent, Dan Quayle.

The year 1984, by Gregorian reckoning, came and went, and Americans seemed to have dodged the Nineteen-Eighty-Four bullet. We weren’t being interned for reeducation by a Ministry of Love. Although conservative, constitutionalist, limited-government ideas came under relentless attack in the mainstream media and the academy, those who expressed the ideas remained free to do so. (They in fact became freer with the lifting under Reagan of the genuinely Orwellian-named “Fairness Doctrine.”) In 2012, the atmosphere has changed.

The United States is only at the start of a nasty conflict in Libya which is going to be very anti-American. It is shocking that there is so little recognition of that fact and an apparently sincere belief that all the problems there are due to a You-Tube video. Having a big problem is bad enough; refusing to recognize that one has a bad problem is potentially fatal.