After three attempts, Mexico has now decisively given Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) a chance to install his brand of populist nationalism and take on Donald Trump in what may be the highest stakes yet, at least in this century, in the relationship between our two countries.  AMLO comes into office as President with a […]

I don’t like the message coming from the President in recent days that he wants to remove U. S. troops from Syria, as he says, “very quickly” and that he has already frozen $200 million in State Department funds dedicated to recovery efforts there.  Of course, with Trump one can never tell which provocative tweets […]

Good for President Trump in defying what was probably the majority of opinion among his advisors in his foreign policy administration in his recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.  After all, at least his last three predecessors have made the commitment to do so, but he is the only one who made good […]

Anti-government protests in Iran are now a week old and showing no signs of abating.  This will no doubt get very ugly when the crackdown by the mullahs comes, which it certainly will.  So what are we learning about the assumptions about Iran and policies applied by the Obama administration and their results and future […]

The decision on Sergeant Bergdahl is a complete and total disgrace to our Country and to our Military–Twitter quote from President Donald Trump. I couldn’t agree more with the President.  In fact, these were almost exactly my thoughts when I heard the news that U. S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was spared any prison time […]

On September 19th at the United Nations, Donald Trump made the most important foreign policy speech of his term to date, probably his most impressive utterance of any type, when he hit most of the right notes in explaining to the world what to them has become an inconvenient truth that they needed to hear […]

A clear consensus has finally formed that we are at the point of a showdown with the Kim regime in North Korea.  The inexcusable torture and death of student Otto Warmbier on top of the continued provocation and advancement of its nuclear weapons program has left us with no choice but to confront this dangerous […]

Count me as one who thinks President Trump had a good trip to the Middle East and Europe last month.  It certainly was a big improvement over President Obama’s inaugural “apology tour” and, contrary to many reports of European leaders who remark privately about the dysfunction of Trump’s impulsive decision-making habits and his often contradictory […]

As we count down the final days of the eight year reign of the Barack Obama administration, it has become increasingly clear that his primary legacy will have been sealed by the events of its final weeks, and it isn’t pretty.  I am referring to two shameful decisions that will live in infamy–the abdication of […]