Book Review: Dancing With the Iranian Devil
To understand the foreign policy goals of European engagement with Iran during its nascent phase, it is worth recalling a joke of the time. In 1984, Germany’s then-foreign mi...
Bill Clinton
A Baleful Peace Process
To be outrageously iconoclastic among the Washington foreign-policy crowd is easy: Just suggest that the Israeli-Arab peace process is not merely pointless but actually damaging to America’...
Op-eds
Iran’s Sequel to North Korea’s Nuclear Playbook
As world powers prepare for nuclear talks with Iran next week in Geneva, U.S. negotiators and their cohorts would do well to review the history of nuclear deals with another rogue state: the Demo...
Op-eds
Why Did Rouhani Say ‘No’ to Obama?
It may not have been a flat-out rejection, but Iranian President Hassan Rouhani certainly surprised a lot of people by declining to meet with President Obama yesterday. We don't know anythin...
Op-eds
America Needs Neocentrist Foreign Policy
Washington is paralyzed over what to do in Syria. By all accounts, the president’s choices range from bad to worse. But Syria is actually a symptom of a deeper intellectual malaise. America...
Op-eds
Bombing Syria Would Be Bound to Backfire
The case for bombing Syria comes in two flavours — left and right. But they boil down to the same bad argument. Liberal interventionists echo Barack Obama’s declaration that...
Op-eds
Assad Must Pay
It’s not just President Obama’s “red line” that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has crossed. Civilized people have long set limits on armed conflicts. Using chemical weapons...
Op-eds
Assad Has Called Obama’s Bluff
The Middle East challenges and dissipates power quickly. We’re seeing that now in Syria. President Obama drew a “...
Op-eds
The Costs and Benefits of the NSA
Should Americans fear the possible abuse of the intercept power of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland? Absolutely. In the midst of the unfolding scandal at the IRS, we understan...
Op-eds
Stephen Hawking Should Go to Israel — and Gaza
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel has done nothing to cripple the Jewish state’s economy. But it has scored a few big symbolic victories. This week, it...
Op-eds
Fight the Blackmail
Kick out North Korean diplos
Op-eds
AIPAC Conference Highlights Canada-Israel Ties
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird electrified the massive pro-Israel crowd at this week’s AIPAC’s policy conference with his straight-talking affirmation of Israeli-Canadian shared...
Op-eds
It’s Too Late To Stop Syria Disintegrating
I still remember seeing him in my parents' garden, fresh from a trek from hell, running for his life. What remains seared in my memory is how swollen his feet were — cov...
Op-eds
A Nasty Piece of Work
A tawdry new book accuses the late Christopher Hitchens of plagiarism—and worse.
Op-eds
Spooky Sex: Inside the Randy Culture of the CIA
"A cock has no shame.” That’s what it said on the little plaque on the door of the espionage instructor. He’d been discovered a few nights earlier going at it with a female juni...
Op-eds
Is Iran Creating a Health Crisis to Evade Sanctions?
Unless Iran abandons its quest for nuclear weapons, there is one certainty in Washington’s policy toward the Islamic Republic: more sanctions. It is also inevitable that the more these econ...
Op-eds
FDD Mourns the Loss of Ambassador Max Kampelman
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of its friend and mentor, Ambassador Max M. Kampelman, who was a long-time member of FDD’s Leadership Co...
Press Releases
The Last Liberal: The Legacy of Joe Lieberman
In January 2004, the New Republic endorsed Joe Lieberman for president. By this time, recriminations against Democrats who had supported the Iraq War (or, in the parlance of the American...
Op-eds
Chuck Hagel’s History of Homophobia
In June 1999, President Bill Clinton named Jim Hormel Ambassador to Luxembourg. Ambassadorships to cushy places like Luxembourg — a landlocked country of 1,000 square miles with half a mill...
Op-eds
Pollard Defenders Vindicated
After 25 years, the CIA has declassified documents that show Jonathan Pollard never spied on the U.S. for Israel