The announcement this week that the U. S. is suspending talks with Russia over the failed cease fire in Syria is simply an acknowledgement that the feckless U. S. policy there has failed and that Russia and the Bashar Assad Syrian regime will now pursue a victory on the ground in the five-year old civil […]

On what planet does Barack Obama think the American people live?  We fly $400 million in cash to Iran on an unmarked cargo plane and we’re supposed to believe that it is coincidental with the release of four hostages who just happened to be waiting for the plane to land in order to be released?  […]

From my perspective (and if I have missed something, please let me know) President Obama’s recent trip to Cuba had three main objectives: (1) to recognize the moral equivalency of Cuba’s regime with U. S. complicity in colonialism, slavery, and oppression; (2) to end what he considers a relic of the Cold War in the […]

There couldn’t have been a more striking juxtaposition of diametrically opposed leadership styles than the split screen of Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin in their respective remarks to the UN General Assembly on Syrian and Middle Eastern policy. This administration has orchestrated a disaster in foreign policy that will require decades to overcome if at […]

We are witnessing the largest mass migration of refugees and oppressed people since World War II and it is only the beginning.  If decisive action is not taken soon to arrest the causes of this migration at its source, it will reach tens of millions in very short order.  Without doubt, over time this will […]

Don’t be fooled.  The battle between Iran and ISIS doesn’t turn Iran into a friend of America.  Iran and ISIS are competing for the crown of militant Islam.  One calls itself the Islamic Republic.  The other calls itself the Islamic State.  Both want to impose a militant Islamic empire first on the region and then […]

In an interesting Wall Street Journal article last month entitled “Debate on U. S. Role in the World is Wide Open” columnist Gerald F. Seib quotes former deputy secretary of state James Steinberg as follows: “American history has been one of oscillation between two extremes: pulling back from everything or getting involved in everything as […]

In its struggle to avoid discussion of Obama foreign policy and the world disorder that it is abetting, the left is busy with changing the subject to 2002/03 and the runup to the Iraq war with “gotcha”-type interviews with potential Republican presidential candidates, conveniently forgetting that the only currently announced or potential presidential candidate from […]

There were no surprises for me and, as President Obama suggested, nothing new in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress, just all the moral clarity and proper identification of the enemy one would expect from a leader whose country daily faces an existential threat that is real and committed to its annihilation.  And […]

In an essay entitled “Our Plan for Countering Violent Extremism” (a title which should immediately give its reader some pause) Secretary of State John Kerry writes, “Eliminating the terrorists of today with force will not guarantee protections from the terrorists of tomorrow.  We have to transform the environment that gave birth to these movements…….This means […]