Engagement

August 19, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Restoring Peace Through Strength

Here’s a question I might suggest be asked of our presidential hopefuls: In a time of war, would unilateral disarmament be a good idea? Here’s how I might suggest they reply:...

February 27, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran Working as Strategic Partner with Hezbollah Against Israel

Co-authored by Jonathan Spyer  All is not quiet on the northern front between Israel and Syria/Lebanon. The recen...

May 21, 2014 | Clifford D. May

Who Should #BringBackOurGirls?

I’m not among those who object to the Twitter campaign focusing on the kidnapping and enslaving of hundreds of Nigerian school girls. As syndicated columnist, Charles...

January 30, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

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...

January 5, 2012 | |

It’s Time to Tip the Scales in Syria

Obama must do more to force out the tyrant Assad

June 30, 2011 |

The Obama Administration Opens Formal Contacts With the Muslim Brotherhood

Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Besides explaining what the Muslim Brotherhood is and has always been, the major point of The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the West Sabotage America was to...

June 14, 2011 | National Review Online |

Farce

Burying the Bush Doctrine in Annapolis

March 30, 2011 | |

America and Syria

If Pres. Barack Obama prefers not to intervene on behalf of the protesters being slaughtered in Syria, the least his administration could do is refrain from endorsing their tyrant. In Obama&rsquo...

December 9, 2010 | Tony Badran NOW Lebanon |

Wikileaks: Obvious US Confusion Over Syria

WikiLeaks’ ongoing release of classified US State Department cables is providing a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of Washington’s dysfunctional Syria policy. Although there&rs...

August 3, 2010 | |

Look At Who Holds The South Lebanon Trigger

On the eve of last Friday’s mini-Arab summit in Lebanon, the United States quietly, but noticeably, renewed a 2007 Executive Order designating parties deemed to be undermining Lebanese sove...

June 17, 2010 | Clifford D. May |

Boxing Iran?

President Obama’s policy of “engagement” with Iran can be viewed as an experiment. There was at least a chance that it was only President Bush — that swaggering, unilatera...

April 13, 2010 | |

Peace Talks, Bashar’s War by Other Means

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is known to have a penchant for brinksmanship. Calculating that he has nothing to fear from a timid Obama administration, he is upping the ante in his direct mili...

June 16, 2009 | |

Why Western Media Got Lebanon’s Elections So Wrong

The biggest failure in Lebanon’s election was not just General Michel Aoun. Sharing first place with him was a coterie of Western journalists and analysts who, in the run-up to the election...

May 29, 2009 |

Wrong Then, Wrong Now

Wrong Then, Wrong Now The Obama administration is repeating Clinton's national-security errors. On Thursday, Josh Meyer of the Los Angeles Times broke the story that the FBI...

September 29, 2008 |

Biden’s Baggage

Tiny Delaware barely registers in the Electoral College, but Barack Obama selected Joseph R. Biden Jr., the state’s senior senator, as his running mate. There’s one explanation: forei...

February 23, 2006 |

The Politically Correct vs. the Politically Ridiculous

No heroes in the port drama.