The Obama Doctrine: Is he an Imperialist With a Little Foot, or Just an Old-Fashioned Appeaser?
Here comes Ross Douthat, trying to sort out Obama’s foreign policy. He’s got...
Bush Doctrine
Secretary Clinton and ‘Real Democracy’ in the Middle East
“The era of Big Government is over!” I could not get President Bill Clinton’s famous declaration out of my...
Op-eds
Cheney Got It Right on Syrian Nukes
The CIA and Bob Woodward got it wrong.
Op-eds
The Right Call on the Syrian Threat
Co-authored by Elliott Abrams, Eliot Cohen, and Eric Edelman Bob Woodward...
Op-eds
Pawlenty’s Foreign Policy
Is he on the John McCain wing of the Republican party?
Op-eds
Farce
Burying the Bush Doctrine in Annapolis
Op-eds
Will the State Department Side with American Terror Victims or Yasser Arafat?
As Abbas brags about Fatah's terror legacy, we wait and watch.
Op-eds
No More Dhimmitude
As always, Mark leaves nothing left to say regarding Sen. Lindsey Graham — though I am tempted to suggest that maybe the country would have been better off if he hadn’t exercise...
Op-eds
Libya’s Makeover
‘The relationship has been moving in a good direction for a number of years now, and I think tonight does mark a new phase,” said Condoleezza Rice. President Bush’s secretary of...
Op-eds
Will Obama back Middle East Democracy Movements?
President Barack Obama campaigned as the polar opposite of his predecessor, George W. Bush, heralding the end of the Bush Doctrine, in which Arab political reform played a central role. Upo...
Op-eds
Waiting for Reform: Arab Citizens and Obama
After one year in office, the Barack Obama administration has started to delineate more clearly its policies towards the Arab world. The George W. Bush administration of 2001-2009 had, at least i...
Op-eds
The El Baradei Candidacy
The seemingly interminable reign of President Hosni Mubarak has suppressed Egypt’s domestic political scene for decades. The Pharaoh, as he is known, has held an iron grip on power since th...
Op-eds
Russia — Bedrock of What Passes for Our Iran Policy
I wonder what the State Department will say the Soviet rebirth means for its preposterous diplomatic strategy to look like it’s doing something to prevent Iran from building nukes....
Op-eds
Tenet Does 60 Minutes
Hawking his new book, At the Eye of the Storm, former CIA Director George Tenet bared his soul Sunday night to Scott Pelley of the CBS news magazine, 60 Minutes. Some preliminary thoughts about h...
Op-eds
What’s Our Iran Policy?
For lo these six-plus years, the Bush administration’s Iran policy has been incoherent. Axis of evil … but no regime change; incorrigible destabilizer supporting both Sunni and Shiit...
Op-eds
Not One Thin Dime for Abbas
When will the madness end? When will the Bush administration and Condoleezza Rice’s State Department finally stop their deranged midwifery of the Palestinian terror state conceived by the C...
Op-eds
Somalia May Save the War on Terrorism
In my last column in this series, I argued that while “Ethiopia may not have been the ideal intervener in Somalia, better it than no one and perhaps the one thing worse than Ethiopia interv...
Op-eds
Don’t Get Too Excited about the President’s Warning to Iran and Syria
Supporters of the war on terror — the global war against jihadists as distinguished from its isolated battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan — were surely heartened last night by Presid...
Op-eds
Sending the Mullahs to Bed Without Supper
Having failed to bribe the Islamic Republic Iran out of its nuclear ambitions, the State Department is putting on its cheeriest face after Saturday’s Security Council resolution, imposing t...
Op-eds
Negotiate with Iran?
The Iraq Study Group’s call for negotiations with Iran and Syria as “a way forward” has been widely derided. It is, abjectly, a return to September 10th thinking — to the...