He did it again, as we should have expected. Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei walked us right up to the finish line, spat on us, and walked away. Months and months of secret an...
We are beginning to learn that the Bush administration declined to talk about the discovery of thousands of WMDs in Iraq. But that’s only the beginning of the story, since that policy was j...
Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Deutch, Ranking Member Sherman, and distinguished members of these subcommittees, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I tha...
Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman Poe, Ranking Member Deutch, Ranking Member Sherman, and distinguished members of these subcommittees, on behalf of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, I thank yo...
The estimable Sohrab Ahmari of the indispensable Wall Street Journal editorial page does some...
Al Qaeda announced this weekend the forthcoming publication of a new Englis...
The Muslim world needs democracy and economic reform — on that, almost everyone agrees. As Rami Khouri, columnist for the Daily Star of Beirut, recently...
President Obama’s Friday telephone call with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani—the first at such a level in over three decades—has exacerbated existing problems between the Unite...
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...
Spengler (aka David Goldman) is one of my close friends and a long-time guru. William Russell Mead is just a guru, but I’m an avid fan. So when I find myself disagreeing with bo...
In one of his first acts as the new US Secretary of State, John Kerry spoke to both Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and Israel’s President, Shimon Peres, to stress his de...
Sharon disengaged from Gaza because he wanted to disentangle the people he had spent a lifetime protecting from their nemesis.
Here comes Ross Douthat, trying to sort out Obama’s foreign policy. He’s got...
Over and over again, we are told that direct U.S.-Iranian negotiations would be a radical departure from past practice, and might decisively improve the “relationship.” Both...
Our enemies will learn them. Will we?
Learning the wrong lessons can be costly.
Floating Rice’s name as a possible vice president shows the Romney campaign’s lack of foreign-policy smarts
The Law of the Sea Treaty requires surrendering sovereignty and paying taxes to international bureaucrats and dictators.
Some headlines seem designed to invite a one-word rejoinder, and so it is with a recent article on Slate:...
The MEK puzzle.