Tag: Foreign Policy

From December 2002 to January 2009, Elliott Abrams was an insider. As deputy assistant to the president and later deputy national security adviser – with the Middle East as his focus – Abrams interacted daily with such figures as President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Israeli Prime Ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert.

Needed changes in Israel's decision making process have simply not kept up with the growing complexities and synergies of Israel's always-hostile external environment.

The Egyptian publication Al-Masry Al-Youm reports that the U.S. government has supplied five containers carrying 140,000 teargas canisters to Egypt's Interior Ministry. It further reports that this shipment...

Under all relevant criteria of international law, Iran's ongoing stance toward Israel remains unequivocally genocidal.

Four Republican senators voted in favor of Hagel, including Rand Paul of Kentucky.

The AWACS Israel is selling to Turkey will potentially be used against Israel in the Mediterranean Sea.

If only Iran began developing the world's biggest chocolate bar, then the bombing raids would begin as soon as the chocolate enrichment process reached the caramel-nougat line.

Obama's State of the Union address touted an American return to world leadership, but concealed the failure of Obama's policies, especially in the Middle East.

Full text of President Barack Obama's "State of the Union" address to Congress, February 12, 2013.

The real villain is the Iranian regime, which has colonized Syria and is colonizing Lebanon in its attempt to squeeze out U.S. influence in the Middle East.

Erdoğan's Turkey is no longer a trustworthy partner for the West but more like a mole in its inner sanctum.

What we are witnessing is the Obama administration actively interfering in European politics to advance European centralization.

The pseudo-realists in charge of western foreign policy today confuse what other countries should be doing with what they are actually doing.

How can anyone talk about the two-state solution when thousands of Palestinian children are being trained to use weapons and explosives to replace Israel with an Islamic state?

Finally, what if, say, Venezuela was developing nuclear weapons and every other day one of their officials promised to root out the ‘cancer’ that was the U.S.?

In Washington there are deep differences of opinion as to how to address the growing jihadi influence in Africa.

The US government will provide arms, money, and diplomatic support to a regime whose ruling forces openly evince hysterical antisemitism and call for genocide against Israel.

An organization that can seize about 1,000 hostages in the middle of Algeria, a country whose regime has been so tough on radical Islamists, is not dead.

As predicted here, Mori's anti-Israel rants will have no affect on U.S. policy of aiding Egypt's transition to an Islamist democracy-dictatorship.

A nuclear weapons reduction plan advocated by Hagel evinces a less than serious understanding of both the nature of US deterrence needs, and the geopolitical balance between the United States and Russia.

The issue is simply this one: When you say something or do something or spend something whose side are you on?

The time is well overdue to respond to IRGC atrocities with the language of force that Iranian leaders only understand.

Smart people can make bad judgments; regular people with common sense often make bad judgments less often. But stupid, arrogant people with terrible ideas are a disaster.

I fear that if Israel ever faces existential danger such as that threatened by Iran, Hagel might just say that he is not the Defense Minster of Israel.

The ability to perceive and make difficult choices is fundamental to the survival of a country.

U.S. influence is markedly less than we – or our enemies – think it is, or ever thought it was.

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.

How many times do we have to hear statements like 'the Jews have too much Power' before we realize that the people saying it are anti- Semites?!

Chuck Hagel writes his own narrative, in which threats aren’t really threats and policies that actually work are just horrible.

The Salafi political victories, militia victories and terror attacks are all part of the same phenomenon, and it is about time that we confronted it for what it is.