The title of this essay is borrowed from the title of a recent article by John Bolton in National Review in which he lays out the challenge we now face in the Middle East from the latest personification of radical Islamist jihad in the form of the Islamic State, commonly known as ISIS or ISIL. […]
Meanwhile, In Ukraine and Elsewhere
Matthew Kaminski, writing in the Wall Street Journal, suggests that while the West forgets history, Vladimir Putin is busy repeating it with his 19th century foreign policy, and leave it again to George Kennan to characterize the Russian mind: “Russia can have at its borders only vassals or enemies”. Kaminski’s response is that the problem […]
Gaza and Moral Clarity
A resolution adopted by the United Nations Human Rights Council on July 23 tells you about all you need to know about the fecklessness of our allies, mainly those in Europe, and the worthlessness of the UN. By a vote of 29-1, with the U. S. being the only “no” vote and with 17 abstentions, […]
A Moment of Truth with Putin
The attack on Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 is a watershed moment, analogous to the shooting down of the Korean Airlines plane by the Soviets in 1983. It is truly a moment of truth for Vladimir Putin, but even more for President Obama, the West, and the American people, who are now face to face with […]
A Dishonorable Transaction
Some people are calling the Sgt. Bergdahl exchange for five Taliban killers imprisoned at Guantanamo a “fiasco” or a ham-handed misjudgment of anticipated popular feedback by a bunch of political hacks who seem to be in charge of the Obama foreign policy team. It was certainly that, and I wish that was all it was, […]
China Can’t Have It Both Ways
The mid-February report issued by the United Nations on human rights abuse in North Korea removed any mystery about the unspeakable atrocities and depths of depravity reached by this criminal regime and it did even more: it once and for all removed any doubt about the fact that China is the enabler that sustains this […]
“Russia Will Always be Russia”
The collapse of the Soviet Union was the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century.” — Vladimir Putin, April 2005. George Kennan, the father of U. S. containment policy in the Cold War beginning in the late 1940s, continually reminded us that the soul of Russian leadership would never stray very far from the czars […]
The Gates Revelations – No Surprises
As if we needed more evidence of the dysfunction inside the Beltway and the duplicity of this White House, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates gave us a pretty full dose in his recently released book. But, honestly, although his reporting of the details was both educational and painfully enlightening, knowing what we already knew […]
Total Collapse in the Middle East
As we begin the new year, we are greeted by the news that, after a three-day battle, Al Qaeda-affiliated militants (remember them, the people we have had “on the run” for the past two years?) have captured the western Iraq city of Fallujah, and raised their flag over government buildings that were previously secured by […]
America Continues to Shrink
Norman Podhoretz has called it “Obama’s successful foreign failure”, Peggy Noonan has described “a new kind of credibility gap” and “a small President on the world stage”, and Fouad Ajami says that “Obama is lost in the Mideast bazaar” and is operating like “a lawyer lost in a region of thugs”. The common thread that […]
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