How Iran Enables Syria’s Chemical Warfare Against Civilians
The 59 Tomahawk missiles the US fired at the Shayrat Air Base served to punish dictator Bashar Assad for his use of chemical weapons against civilians. The strikes on April 6 also helped...
Bill Kristol
Analysis: Will France Invoke NATO’s Article 5 to Declare War on Islamic State?
To confront comprehensively the Islamic State terrorist attacks on French soil, there have been calls for France’s President François Hollande to invoke Article 5 of the NATO Treaty,...
Op-eds
The Citizen’s Guide to Regime Change
All of a sudden, it’s OK to talk seriously about regime change in Iran and even elsewhere. It had been a taboo subject since the final years of the G.W. Bush administration, aside fro...
Op-eds
Iran and Diplomacy vs. Engagement
‘Iran’s rulers are not open to engagement no matter what mix of carrots and sticks are offered.” Peter Beinart, a contributing editor of The Atlantic, attributed that r...
Op-eds
Conservatives Push Congress On Iran
As Congress contemplates passing new Iran sanctions over the objections of t...
Op-eds
Benghazi and the Missing Obama 9/11 Timeline
The story of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Benghazi has been evolving for more than seven weeks now, in its many and oft conflicting variants, and the questions keep multiplying. Amid the offi...
Op-eds
Policy Experts Urge President Obama to Take Immediate Action to Establish Safe Zones in Syria
Washington, D.C.—A bipartisan group of sixty-two foreign policy experts and former U.S. government officials signed an open letter today urging President Obama to adopt a strategy that will...
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Time to End Empty Negotiations with Iran?
The latest round of negotiations to end Iran’s illicit nuclear activities have, not surprisingly, come and gone without an agreement. &ldqu...
Op-eds
From Democracy to Sharia
The ‘Arab Spring’ shows that democratic process is useless without democratic culture.
Op-eds
Conflicting Definitions of ‘Pro-Israel’ on Either Side of the Atlantic
During a recent trip to Washington, I was introduced to an Israeli diplomat as the JPost's European Correspondent. The diplomat issued a tart reply laced with biting sarcasm: "My cond...
Op-eds
What Obama Must Do in Syria After the Failed Annan Plan
A Joint Bulletin of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) The Assad regime’s brutality against the Syrian people continues unabated,...
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Foreign Policy Experts Urge President Obama to Take Immediate Action in Syria
Foreign Poli...
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Foreign Policy Experts Urge President Obama to Take Action Against Assad
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Punching Back Against Obama’s Israel Policy
Yesterday, the Emergency Committee for Israel — a group that has played a decisive role in the defeat of Democratic congressional candidates with checkered records of support for the Jewish...
Op-eds
Towards a Post-Assad Syria
Towards a Post-Assad Syria: Options for the United States and Like-Minded Nations to Further Assist the Anti-Regime Syrian Opposition A Discussion Paper Prepared by the Foreign...
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The Assad Regime’s Continuing Mass Murder of Syrians
The Assad Regime’s Continuing Mass Murder of Syrians: Policy Options for U.S. Response A Joint Bulletin of the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI) and the Foundation...
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The Great Alawite Hope
Belief in Bashar al-Assad was always misplaced. Now it’s time for change.
Op-eds
Al-Qaeda, Yes; DOMA, No
The modern-day John Adams brigade down at King & Spalding has finally found a client too unpopular to merit representation: the American people. That is exactly the same conclusion drawn by E...
Op-eds
Middle East Howlers
A “howler,” the Wall Street Journal called it in an editorial yesterday. That certainly is a fitting description of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s latest mindboggling fora...
Op-eds
Libya Commentary
In this morning’s column, I argue against intervention in Libya’s internal strife — a battle proponents of intervention portray as the incorrigibly terrorist anti-American Qadda...