Latin America’s socialist-Islamist-narco-terrorist alliance
At the U.N. last week, President Trump had harsh words for the “socialist dictatorship” that has impoverished Venezuela. He railed against “Islamist extremism” and “...
Cuba
Fixing the United Nations
The United Nations was created in the wake of World War II by the major Allied nations that had prevailed – at an enormous cost in blood and treasure -- over the Axis powers. Its foun...
Op-eds
How North Korea Cheats Sanctions
In July 2013, U.S. law-enforcement was tipped off about a North Korean vessel that was making its first visit to the Americas in four years. Authorities were told the Chong Chon Gang, which was s...
Op-eds
Misery Doesn’t Cause Revolution
I keep watching the videos from Venezuela, hundreds of thousands of protesters calling for an end to the Chavez-Maduro era. And I ask myself, why is this manifestly failed regime still in p...
Op-eds
What Happened in Hamburg
The president-elect’s narrow victory at the end of a volatile campaign quickly led to efforts at planning a meeting of the American and Russian leaders. Relations between the two countries...
Op-eds
Fine Tuning the Cuba Embargo
This week, President Donald Trump will reportedly announce the re-imposit...
Op-eds
Tyrants And Their Hollow States
Frankly, I’m surprised Erdogan had to settle for a photo-finish win at the wire. Not a great result for a would-be ...
Op-eds
Tyrants And Their Hollow States
Frankly, I’m surprised Erdogan had to settle for a photo-finish win at the wire. Not a great result for a would-be ...
Op-eds
French Bank Said to Have Dropped Major BDS Account
One of the world’s largest banks, the Paris-based BNP Paribas, may have closed the account last year of a French organization that advocates boycotting Israel. After the former president of...
Op-eds
The Real War in ‘Syria’ and the Strategy for Long-Term Victory
Of course I loathe Assad. And of course I despise the Obamans for that phony red line and the subsequent retreat-and-bogus-Russian-deal. But just carrying out vengeance against Assad isn’t...
Op-eds
Xi’s Visit is Chance to Deliver Tough Message to China
China’s President Xi Jinping will travel to Florida on Thursday and Friday for a su...
Policy Briefs
Severing China-North Korea Financial Links
Chinese companies and banks are complicit in Pyongyang’s efforts to evade financial sanctions. Washington should authorize the Treasury Department to impose fines against banks that aid Nor...
Op-eds
How much is the U.N. worth?
This may come as a shock: It’s possible, not likely but possible, that a committee of officials from the Defense, State and Justice Departments, as well as the National Security Council, wi...
Op-eds
Trump must turn attention to North Korea
Kim Jong Un's New Year's Day threat to test an intercontinental ballistic missile has rekindled an age-old debate among North Korea experts in the U.S. on the best policy towards the co...
Op-eds
Throwing Israel to the U.N.’s wolves
Palestinian Islamic Jihad is, as its name suggests, an organization committed to jihad — against Isra...
Op-eds
Cuba, Iran’s island in the sun
The Obama administration thinks Iran's influe...
Op-eds
We’re Losing the War and We’re Paying for It
When the No Deal Deal was made with Iran, I said it was easy to understand: the Iranians would promise to be good, and we would pay for it. In the event, I was only half right. ...
Op-eds
The problem with peace processes
When peace-loving people sit down together in a spirit of compromise they can find ways to resolve their conflicts. Does it follow that negotiations with those who don’t care a fig about pe...
Op-eds
Bank of Ireland shuts down anti-Israel BDS accounts
The Bank of Ireland- the country’s oldest financial institution—shut down the accounts of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC). The termination of the pro-BDS group’s...
Op-eds
Obama to World: I failed, but it’s their fault
As my administration nears its conclusion, I want the citizens of the world to clearly understand what my mission was, why it failed, and the lessons I have learned. My mission was to un...